Industrial biotech USES agricultural feedstocks, rather than petroleum-based ones, to produce chemicals, plastics and fuels.

工业生物技术用农业原料替代石油制品来生产化学制品、塑料和燃料。

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Drugs, plastics and many other industrial chemicals consist of large carbon-based molecules.

药物、塑料和其他许多工业化学品具有大型的含碳分子。

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Paraxylene is used in the production of polyester fibers and plastic bottles. Benzene is an industrial chemical used to produce a wide range of plastics, detergents and other chemicals.

生产的对二甲苯用于聚脂光纤和塑料瓶，苯则用于工业上生产大范围的塑料、清洁剂和其它化学用品。

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Furthermore, oil-dependent governments, facing a population boom and realizing that they need to diversify their economy to create jobs and wealth, are subsidizing the industrial sector to manufacture plastics, chemicals and aluminum, all energy-intensive goods.

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