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Transcripción del abstract original del autor: In March 2002, Xinjiang Guanghui Industry and Commerce Group Co. Ltd. has awarded a contract to build an LNG (liquefied natural gas) baseload plant in Shan Shan, Xinjiang, China. This is an important step towards extended utilisation of the gas from the remote Xinjiang region of China. The facilities comprise gas processing and liquefaction, intermediate storage and unloading of the LNG into containers as well as into road tankers. The containers will be loaded onto the nearby trains. The LNG will be transported over several thousand kilometers to satellite stations located in some of the East Coast Provinces of China. From there, the LNG is re-vaporised and distributed via short pipelines to industrial and household consumers. The LNG production rate of the Shan Shan LNG plant will be 1 500 000 m3(n)/day, which accumulates to about 430 000 metric tons per year. The feed gas is coming from the large Tuha oilfield, where some of the associated natural gas cannot be used due to lack of market opportunities in the vicinity. The Shan Shan LNG plant is currently under construction. Commissioning is scheduled for the end of the year 2003. This paper focuses on the challenges of the new LNG baseload plant in China and presents the advanced status of the materialisation of the project.