“One Belt and One Road” National Natural Gas Supply-Demand Characteristic and the Related Suggestions

Energy cooperation is an important part of the “One Belt and One Road” strategy. As the largest energy consumer of the world, our country imports a large number of energy resources from all over the world, especially oil and gas resources. Because of the external dependency rising year by year, the safety of oil and gas becomes a concern. Strengthening energy cooperation with countries along the way through “One Belt and One Road” strategy can provide assurance for our energy security. Natural gas as a kind of clean and efficient energy plays an important role in mitigating the energy shortage and environmental pollution, and occupies an important position in the world′s energy consumption structure. On the basis of collecting and analyzing the production, consumption, import/export trade data of natural gas energy of major energy countries that belongs to “One Belt and One Road”, the article identified the supply-demand and trade characteristics of natural gas and gave some recommendations to better develop the natural gas industry under the cooperation framework of “One Belt and One Road”.