[Explanation] The opening ceremony of the China-UK Hydrogen Energy Cooperation Forum hosted by the Chinese Consulate-General in Manchester, the British China Affairs Committee and the Greater Manchester-Britain-China Association was held in Wuhan on April 28.
Representatives from the Chinese and British governments, hydrogen energy academia, science and technology, and business circles discussed opportunities for hydrogen energy industry cooperation through video connections.
[Explanation] On the same day, Wuhan City and Manchester City signed a memorandum of exchange and cooperation in the hydrogen energy industry between the two cities; Wuhan University of Technology and Manchester Metropolitan University signed a letter of intent for hydrogen energy cooperation. The two parties will cooperate in hydrogen energy industry scientific research and personnel training.
Deloitte UK and Wuhan University of Technology, on behalf of China and the UK, respectively introduced the current situation and prospects of hydrogen energy industry development in the two countries, and discussed specific areas for future hydrogen energy cooperation.
[Concurrent] Yang Zongkai, President of Wuhan University of Technology
As an active participant in the field of hydrogen energy research, we are also very willing to work with our British counterparts to contribute education and technology to the development of Sino-British hydrogen energy cooperation. Wisdom, we hope that in the near future, we can jointly promote the mutual visits of experts and scholars in the field of hydrogen energy between China and the UK, carry out face-to-face exchanges, and accelerate the promotion of in-depth cooperation in international education, technology and industry in related fields.
[Explanation] This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of ambassadorial-level diplomatic relations between China and the UK.
In 1986, Wuhan City and Manchester City in the United Kingdom became sister cities, which is the earliest relationship between China and the United Kingdom.
[Explanation] It is reported that Hubei is one of the earliest provinces in the country to carry out the R&D and application of the hydrogen energy industry. After more than ten years of cultivation, the province has initially formed a "technical research and development + upstream hydrogen production + midstream storage and transportation + downstream application". The whole chain development pattern, key core technologies and products are in the accelerated transition stage from pilot test to industrialization.
Wuhan is one of the earliest cities in China to deploy the hydrogen energy industry. The city has gathered more than 40 key hydrogen energy industry enterprises and research institutes.
At the same time, Wuhan is also the registration and settlement center of the national carbon emissions trading market.
[Explanation] Zhao Haishan, deputy governor of the Hubei Provincial Government, said that in the future, he hopes to strengthen the contact between the two sides through various forms such as holding seminars regularly each year, and promote exchanges and cooperation between Hubei and the United Kingdom in the field of hydrogen energy.
Both parties are encouraged to jointly organize and implement major technology research and development projects, strengthen cooperation in the field of hydrogen energy through various means, and cultivate and expand the entire hydrogen energy industry chain.
Reporter Zou Hao reports from Wuhan, Hubei
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]