Feature: Chinese, U.S. companies jointly building mega methanol plant in Louisiana

Charlie Yao, CEO of Yuhuang Chemical Industries Inc. (YCI) Methanol One, speaks during an interview with Xinhua at the construction site of Yuhuang's methanol project in St. James Parish, Louisiana, the United States, on Feb. 28, 2019. Yuhuang Chemical Industries Inc. (YCI), a subsidiary of China's Shandong Yuhuang Chemical, is constructing a 1.85-billion-dollar methanol plant in St. James Parish. The project is one of the largest greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) by a Chinese company in the United States. It was announced in 2014 and started construction in January 2017. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)