The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR; Chinese: 中华人民共和国战略石油储备) is an emergency fuel store of oil maintained by the People's Republic of China National Development and Reform Commission.
[3] Recently, Zhang Guobao the head of the National Energy Administration also stated that there will be a third phase that will expand reserves by 204 million barrels with the goal in 2009 of increasing China's SPR to 90 days of supply by 2020.
[4] The government and enterprise reserves are managed by the National Development and Reform Commission(NDRC).
[21] The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the largest emergency supply in the world with the current capacity to hold up to 727 million barrels (115,600,000 m3).
The second largest emergency supply of oil is Japan's with a 2003 reported capacity of 579 million barrels (92,100,000 m3).