European Chamber Energy Working Group Chair Spoke at the 11th EU-China Energy Dialogue

2023-10-12 | Beijing

European Chamber Energy Working Group Chair Spoke at the 11th EU-China Energy Dialogue

On 12th October, Zhonghua Xu, European Chamber Energy Working Group Chair spoke at the 11th EU-China Energy Dialogue in Beijing. The Dialogue was co-chaired by Kadri Simson, EU Commissioner for Energy and Zhang Jianhua, Administrator of China's National Energy Administration. The EU-China energy dialogue was established in 1994 and was deepened and intensified by the 2019 joint statement on the implementation of EU-China cooperation.

Administrator Zhang Jianhua said that energy is one of the earliest and most important areas of cooperation between China and the EU. China and the EU share a common mission in accelerating energy transition, ensuring energy security and achieving carbon neutrality, and have started extensive and fruitful exchanges and cooperation. Under the new situation, China is willing to uphold the principle of mutual benefit and win-win results, strengthen communication and coordination with the EU on energy security, deepen exchanges and cooperation on energy transition, jointly create a fair, non-discriminatory and predictable market environment, improve the cooperation platform mechanism, further release the huge potential of China-EU clean energy cooperation, help the China-EU comprehensive strategic partnership achieve practical results, and make greater contributions to the global clean energy transformation and climate change.

Commissioner Simson said that the EU attaches great importance to green development cooperation with China and is willing to take this dialogue as an opportunity to actively expand cooperation with China in the field of clean energy and promote cooperation to achieve more substantive results.

During the dialogue, the two sides exchanged in-depth views on topics such as energy security and transformation, renewable energy, electricity market reform, green power certification, and green hydrogen, listened to the progress reports of the EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform (ECECP) and the China-Europe Energy Innovation Cooperation Platform (CEEI), and reached consensus on the next cooperation priorities and directions. Energy Working Group Chair Zhonghua Xu suggested more EU-China cooperation in the field of bioenergy, and stronger support from both governments on low-carbon demonstration projects.