Amur Prefecture, Russia, is located one or two hundred kilometers north of Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province, China. Located in the Far East of Russia, it is short of resources and hard living and working conditions. Even so, Amur natural gas chemical project is still hot in cold weather In 2019, Sinopec and Russian Sibur signed the cooperation framework agreement on Amur natural gas chemical project. The total investment of the project is US $11.6 billion. After completion, the annual output value is expected to be about US $1.6 billion to US $1.8 billion. In August 2020, the project will start construction. "In winter, the temperature in Amur is very low, with a minimum of minus 40 degrees and a soil freezing depth of 4 meters. This makes the laying of underground pipelines more complex." speaking of the difficulty of engineering construction, Alexei veleshagin, general manager of the Russian project, said that tower cranes and other super large equipment have to rely on waterway transportation, but the two previous floods have added a lot of trouble to the construction. Later, the project team developed a special plan to transport 80 sets of equipment to the site as planned. In July 2021, Chen Jie came to Russia to participate in the on-site installation of Amur natural gas chemical project. He told reporters that the scope of work of the project is very wide. In the early stage of the project, we need to overcome the shortage of construction personnel, inadequate construction machines and equipment and other adverse factors. The project is difficult and the construction period pressure is not small. Similar projects have been built in toborsk, Russia, with a design annual capacity of 2 million tons and a construction period of 52 months; However, the construction period of Amur natural gas chemical project with an annual output of 2.7 million tons is only 46 months. Nevertheless, with the joint efforts of more than 1000 construction personnel from China and Russia, the project is progressing smoothly. Gao Yang, deputy general manager of Amur natural gas chemical joint venture, said that even in the face of various difficulties, by the end of October 2021, 25.2% of the overall construction progress of the project had been completed and 30.9% was planned to be completed by the end of the year. Li Shutong, the project manager, also said: "we have overcome the adverse factors such as the difficulty of personnel relocation during the epidemic, the language communication barrier with the owner's team, the owner's management concept and management culture differences, and the construction progress is rapid." One belt, one road, is the key to China's "one belt and one road" initiative and international layout, Wang Jun, general representative of Sinopec's Central Asian Russia, told reporters. As a key project of Sino Russian investment cooperation, Amur natural gas chemical project "adheres to the principles of mutual benefit, win-win and commercial feasibility, gives full play to the advantages of integration of investment, technology, operation, trade and engineering services, and will make new and greater contributions to creating a new situation of Sino Russian energy cooperation and promoting the comprehensive improvement and upgrading of bilateral economic and trade cooperation". In order to cope with the next cold weather, the project party has made sufficient preparations. Wang Liang, deputy project manager of the project department, said: "140 air heaters are at full power, and 15000 square meters of thermal insulation materials have been prepared in August. Various measures such as setting up thermal insulation sheds and electric heating maintenance have also been taken in the prefabrication of well rooms and pipe corridor columns." "The project is scheduled to be completed before May 2024, and then the equipment commissioning can be carried out all summer. By the end of the same year, we will receive the first ton of products." welleshagin looks forward to it. (outlook new era)