Xinhuanet Kunming October 20th (Reporter Chen Dongshu) The 2022 East Asia Summit New Energy Forum was held in Kunming, Yunnan Province on the 20th. The theme of this forum is 'Digital Empowerment New Energy Development Opportunities and Innovation Cooperation', which is conducted in a combination of online and offline ways.
2022 East Asia Summit New Energy Forum held in Kunming. Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Dongshu photo
Dai Gang, director of the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said in his speech that the green transformation of Asian countries is of great significance to the green recovery of the global economy. China attaches great importance to the development of new energy industry and international cooperation in energy innovation. In the future, China government will continue to attach importance to scientific and technological innovation in the field of new energy, and lay a solid foundation for realizing the peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality goals.
According to Wang Xueqin, director of Yunnan Science and Technology Department, Yunnan has large reserves of hydropower and coal resources, superior development conditions, and good development prospects for geothermal energy, solar energy and wind energy. Yunnan's new energy is in the period of accelerated development, and we hope to actively cooperate with experts and scholars to achieve mutual benefit and win-win.
Experts and representatives from more than ten countries, including Japan, India and Thailand, attended and spoke online or offline, and shared and exchanged research and development achievements in new energy fields such as water energy, hydrogen energy, geothermal resources and photocatalysis. Experts attending the meeting generally believed that strengthening international cooperation and vigorously developing renewable energy and new energy have become the common choice of all countries to achieve sustainable economic and social development.
The East Asia Summit New Energy Forum was initiated by China and has been held for eight times since 2013. This forum is sponsored by the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology.