How important are chemical companies to a country?

Raw material supply

It goes without saying. China is doing very well in coal chemical industry. Countries like South Africa are doing very well. Since when do you see Saudi coal chemicals? They stick a pipe in the ground and they spray oil!

Land supply

That's easy to understand, too. Large tracts of cheap land are more suitable for building chemical companies. No one's gonna use a chemical plant for imagination in a place like Orson Park.

Water supply

For chemical plants, water is not just for drinking or cleaning. Water and steam are widely used in heat transfer processes in chemical plants. If there is no heating and cooling, basically any chemical product is impossible to produce. In addition, there are transportation factors, energy factors, environmental protection factors, etc., which are relatively easy to understand, and will not be detailed.

But there are other factors. Let me give you an example.

It is said that there is a Yanshan petrochemical plant in Beijing, which is built in the mountains south of Beijing. It is reasonable to say that the land near Beijing is certainly not abundant, and the environmental protection pressure is also large, but the state still has to invest in the construction of factories here, because to ensure the supply of gasoline and diesel for the people in the Beijing area, it is considered as a social factor. Besides, the factory is built in the mountains, the transportation must not be so convenient. It's a historical factor or a political factor. Because this factory was built relatively early, when the new China was just founded, it is estimated that it was built in the mountains in order to prevent the accident of the factory in case of war or conflict affecting the surrounding safety.

To sum up, the position of the chemical plant is not the leader to beat the head to come up with, to synthesize all aspects of the multiple arguments, any aspect is not considered that it may lose underwear.