As a leading state-owned super-large chemical enterprise directly under Tianjin Municipality, Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry Group (Bohua Group) carries an industrial heritage of "a thousand years of salt industry and a century of chemical development". Tracing its roots back to the founding of Yongli Soda Plant in 1917—China’s first soda ash manufacturer—it stands as a pivotal cradle of China’s modern chemical industry. After over a century of growth, the group has evolved into a modern chemical conglomerate with total assets of 130 billion yuan and annual operating revenue exceeding 56 billion yuan. It has been listed among China’s Top 500 Enterprises for consecutive years, serving as a core engine for the high-quality development of the petrochemical industry in the Bohai Rim region.
Currently, Bohua Group operates three specialized production bases in Lingang, Nangang and Dagang, with four core industrial chains covering chlor-alkali chemicals, modern coal chemicals, petrochemicals and light hydrocarbon chemicals, supported by extended sectors including fine chemicals, rubber products and biomanufacturing. It produces over 1,000 chemical products across general, high-end and fine categories, with a total annual output of nearly 12 million tons. As the core carrier for Tianjin’s "two major chemical enterprises" relocation and upgrading initiative, the Nangang New Materials Industrial Park involves a total investment of 29.4 billion yuan. With its Phase I methanol-to-olefins project and Phase II chlor-alkali integration project put into operation successively, the park now boasts 900,000 t/a of caustic soda capacity and 1.2 million t/a of polyvinyl chloride capacity, completing the full industrial chain from basic raw materials to high-end polymers and forming the core support of the national-level new chemical materials base.
Green and low-carbon transformation is the group’s core strategy. Leveraging the resources of Changlu Salt Fields, it has built a 586,000 kW "salt-solar complementary" photovoltaic project, the largest of its kind in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, with an annual power generation of 770 million kWh. Its industrial by-product hydrogen purification capacity reaches 6,500 tons per year, and it operates Tianjin’s first hydrogen refueling mother station, serving as a core hydrogen supplier for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Fuel Cell Vehicle Demonstration City Cluster, and forming a circular economy model integrating "green power + green hydrogen + chemical production".
Looking ahead to the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Bohua Group is accelerating its expansion into high-end new chemical materials and new energy tracks. It will foster new quality productive forces through digital-intelligent transformation and technological innovation, striving to build a world-class modern green chemical industry group.
