9th EAS forum held in Yunnan for new-energy cooperation
The 9th East Asia Summit (EAS) New Energy Forum opened in central Yunnan’s Kunming city on June 29, inviting in around 200 representatives from 18 countries that include China, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Thailand and Singapore. They discussed on innovative cooperation and sustained development for the new-energy industry.
The 9th East Asia Summit (EAS) New Energy Forum opens in central Yunnan’s Kunming city on June 29. Photo/WeChat
"China has established sci-tech cooperative relations with 160 plus countries and regions in the world, remaining active in multilateral mechanisms such as the International Energy Agency's technical cooperation plans and the ministerial conferences on innovation mission and clean energy," said Dai Gang, director general of the International Cooperation Department of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.
At the forum, new-energy academicians from China, Japan and south Korea gave keynote speeches on pumped storage power stations, carbon neutrality, photocatalytic technology and high-temperature fuel cells, and they proposed that countries continue pragmatic cooperation in the new-energy field.
“Some 90% of the electric power generated in Yunnan is clean energy, and of the province’s electricity trade with its partners, 97% percent belongs to clean energy,” said Song Guangxing, deputy director-general of Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, noting Yunnan leads the country in hydropower, wind power and solar energy.
The China-ASEAN Youth Innovation Camp is launched during the forum. Photo/WeChat
Yunnan province has been active in new energy-related international cooperation, implementing 102 international sci-tech projects, cooperating with BRI countries for 21 joint laboratories, and setting up 13 international sci-tech cooperation bases for regional coordinated development in renewable energy.
The China-ASEAN Youth Innovation Camp was also launched during the forum, and 26 representatives from the ASEAN countries will have a seven-day exchange and investigation tour in Yunnan and Shanghai.
Initiated by China, the forum has been held 9 times since 2013, and more than 30 countries and international organizations participated in it. Under the theme of "building open cooperation mechanism for green economic recovery", this year’s forum is sponsored by the International Cooperation Department of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and the Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology.
The 9th East Asia Summit (EAS) New Energy Forum opens in central Yunnan’s Kunming city on June 29. Photo/WeChat
Sources: China News Service, Yunnan Daily and WeChat of Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology; Trans-editing by Wang Shixue