Cars line up at a filling station for liquid natural gas (LNG) in Baoding, Hebei Province, in this file photo. China consumed 209.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the first 11 months of the year, up 18.9 percent from a year ago, according to the National Development and Reform Commission. The growth was 12 percentage points higher than that in the first half of the year and more than 8 percentage points higher than the average growth in the previous five years.SD-Agencies