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Ningxia hosts international sci-tech exchanges to advance green development

Date:2022-07-08 20:46:55 Views:1125

China is making multifaceted efforts in boosting global green and low-carbon development, among which organizing international sci-tech conferences performs an important function for administrative organs and professional institutions to share advanced experiences and learn good practices in relevant fields.  

 

Co-sponsored by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 2022 International Scientific and Technological Innovation Conference on Green Development was held in Yinchuan in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on July, 6, 2022.

 

Under the theme of “Sharing green and low-carbon development through cooperation”, the conference consisted of 5 sub-forums discussing topics  relating to green development, green energy exploration, eco-friendly life and production, and green agriculture. Experts, entrepreneurs and multi-stakeholders both at home and abroad participated in the event, which created conditions for further international cooperation to achieve the goal of “carbon peaking and neutrality” worldwide.

 

Zhang Yuzhuo, vice president and chief executive secretary of the Secretariat of CAST, noted that international sci-tech conferences provided opportunities for global scientists to conduct exchanges and make friends, planting seeds of mutual trust to jointly initiate scientific programs and incept international sci-tech organizations based in China in the field of green and low-carbon development.

 

AT the keynote speeches session, Li Bo, vice president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Gong Ke, former president of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and former president of Nankai University, Ouyang Minggao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and deputy director of the academic committee of Tsinghua University, delivered keynote speeches respectively with titles “Strengthening international cooperation to promote green recovery”, “Sci-tech innovation and sustainable development”, and “Opportunities and challenges for hydrogen energy development”.

 

Li Bo pointed out that in order to support technological innovation and meet climate challenge, we need to make efforts from three aspects: establishing a carbon pricing system, promoting technology application and strengthening international cooperation.

 

Gong Ke expounded realizing sustainable development is the purpose of sci-tech innovation and sci-tech innovation is the lever to realize sustainable development.

 

Ouyang Minggao showed the development prospect of hydrogen energy in China from perspectives of the strategic position of hydrogen energy for carbon neutralization, the key breakthrough fields of hydrogen energy and the technical economy of the whole hydrogen energy industry chain.

 

Tang Defu, president of Faurecia China, and Alessandro Teixeira, former minister of tourism in Brazil, and former president of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), delivered thematic speeches entitled " Faurecia's carbon neutralization strategy and practice" and "Green innovation and cooperation in the era of sustainable development" at the conference.

 

The conference released Ningxia’s technical needs on developing renewable energy, producing green hydrogen and boosting low-carbon development, appealing global tech companies, think tanks and venture capitals to provide solutions.

 

The conference also released Park City Index, an evaluation system with 45 carefully screened indicators, to provide technical support for the main responsible bodies in their constructing park cities for sustainable development.