中俄天然气贸易协定的签署一度占据了世界各大媒体的头版头条。但是我们要清醒的认识到,这并不是一个类似美国页岩气革命一样能够改变世界天然气市场规则的事件。长期以来,中国能源产业最显著的特点是国家日益增长的能源需求和以煤炭为主导的能源结构。但是,天然气正在发挥着比以往更重要的作用,未来甚至可能会成为中国能源产业的关键。目前天然气在中国能源消费中所占的比例还很小,中国甚至是世界上天然气消费比例最小的国家之 The signing of the China-Russia Gas Trade Agreement once took the lead in the world’s major media. However, we must clearly realize that this is not an event that can change the rules of the world natural gas market like the U.S. shale revolution did. For a long time, the most prominent features of China’s energy industry are the country’s growing energy needs and coal-dominated energy structure. However, natural gas is playing a more important role than ever before and may even become the key to China’s energy industry in the future. At present, the share of natural gas in China’s energy consumption is still very small. China is even the country with the lowest proportion of natural gas consumption in the world