Geothermal heating warms households in Jilin province

CHANGCHUN — Geothermal heating is helping to keep the cold winter air out of 700 households in Datun township, Northeast China's Jilin province, thanks to an expansion of the clean energy source.

Since November, more than 1.1 million people in 11 provincial-level regions including Tianjin, Shaanxi, Jilin and Shanxi have benefited from geothermal heating projects implemented by Sinopec Group.

The country's largest oil refiner, Sinopec has begun operating over 1,000 heat exchange stations to supply heating to buildings covering more than 110 million square meters.