Li Ruipeng’s phone has been ringing off the hook with factories and hotels looking to get their hands on prompt supplies of gas. Gas trailers line up for filling liquefied natural gas at Caofeidian terminal, in Tangshan, Hebei province, China October 17, 2017. Picture taken October 17, 2017. REUTERS/ Aizhu Chen “Orders started to shoot up from September. Some are asking for deliveries the very next day,” said Li, a manager with privately run Huapu Gas, which delivers super-chilled gas by truck to customers within a 500-km (310 mile) radius of its base in Tangshan, east of Beijing. Huapu is one of a fast-growing band of trucking companies that are transforming China’s once-sleepy domestic spot market for gas into a unique and bustling business as Beijing pushes to wean the country off coal. Hotels, hospitals and factories have been forced to swap their coal-fired boilers […]