The proposed Power of Siberia 2 pipeline is designed to carry West Siberian gas through eastern Mongolia into northern China, with a capacity of up to 50 billion cubic meters per year. Negotiations between Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation have resulted in binding memoranda and uncertainty. However, in Beijing's 15th five-year plan, the state has approved preliminary work on the China-Russia Central Line, a pipeline that connects with semiconductor fabrication. The pipeline is an upstream condition for chip-making, where any shift in the economics or security of natural gas supply translates into the economics of hydrogen supply. The plan includes improvement of mature fabrication nodes, advanced process capability, key equipment, and what it describes as “full-chain breakthroughs” achieved through “unconventional measures.