The Shanxi (Lüliang) Hydrogen Energy Industry Planning Feasibility Study Meeting Was Held at Pengfei Group.

Release Date:

2021-08-08

On August 4, the Xiaoyi Economic Development Zone convened a planning and feasibility review meeting for Shanxi (Lüliang)’s hydrogen energy industry at Pengfei Group. Representatives from leading domestic and international companies that collaborate with Pengfei participated via video link, offering strategic input to build the Pengwan Hydrogen Port Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park—a demonstration base for Shanxi (Lüliang)’s hydrogen energy sector.

On August 4, the Xiaoyi Economic Development Zone convened a planning and feasibility review meeting for Shanxi (Lüliang)’s hydrogen energy industry at Pengfei Group. Representatives from leading domestic and international companies that collaborate with Pengfei participated via video link, offering strategic advice to help build the Pengwan Hydrogen Port Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park—a demonstration base for Shanxi (Lüliang)’s hydrogen energy sector.

Zhang Youquan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of the Xiaoyi Economic Development Zone, along with Assistant Director Wu Jianfei, Liang Hong, Director of the Xiaoyi Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, and Zheng Peng, Chairman of the Board and President of Pengfei Group, attended the meeting and delivered remarks.

At the meeting, representatives from seven companies—including Germany’s TÜV Group, U.S.-based Chart (Changzhou) Co., Ltd., the Sino‑French joint venture Hopu Co., Ltd., Saiding Design Institute, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, Dongfang Electric, and Shenneng Group—spoke in turn on ten agenda items related to hydrogen production, storage, refueling, transportation, utilization, the hydrogen‑fuel industry, hydrogen‑energy research, industrial preferential policies, industry standards, and hydrogen‑powered heavy‑duty trucks. Drawing on both international and domestic economic trends as well as future developments in the hydrogen economy, and leveraging their respective corporate strengths, they put forward well‑grounded recommendations for the development of the Shanxi (Lüliang) Hydrogen Energy Industry Demonstration Park—Pengwan Hydrogen Port.

Liang Hong stated that the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology will spare no effort in providing robust support, urging all enterprises to embrace the “Four Pioneering Initiatives”—namely, taking the lead in establishing a citywide ecosystem of hydrogen‑energy industry application scenarios; spearheading the development of a citywide safety‑evaluation framework; pioneering the creation of a management system for hydrogen‑energy applications across the city; and leading the integration of the world’s most advanced hydrogen‑energy technologies within the city—to effectively shape the industrial planning and layout of the Pengwan Hydrogen Port. He also pledged to assist Pengfei in scaling up and strengthening its hydrogen‑energy business.

Wu Jianfei analyzed Xiaoyi’s advantages as the nation’s largest hydrogen‑production base powered by coke‑oven gas, highlighting its strengths in hydrogen‑production costs, application scenarios, and policy support. Using hydrogen‑powered heavy‑duty trucks as an example, he outlined, under the leadership of Pengfei, the city’s plans and strategic layout for hydrogen‑fuelled heavy‑duty vehicles and hydrogen refueling stations over the next three to five years.

Chairman Zheng Peng expressed his hope that the participating business representatives, with the goal of achieving the first‑in‑China deployment of hydrogen‑powered heavy‑truck applications in Xiaoyi as of January 1, 2022, will pool their strengths, leverage their respective advantages, and build a hydrogen‑energy industry ecosystem rooted in Xiaoyi, extending across Lüliang, and leading Shanxi Province—and even the entire nation—by adopting cutting‑edge technologies, innovative application scenarios, and benchmark demonstration standards, thereby seizing the initiative in the upcoming energy revolution.

Zhang Youquan offered recommendations on aspects including industrial park planning and positioning, pathways for industrial development, key projects and support for critical factors, and policy safeguards. He urged the participating experts to draw on their respective areas of expertise and, adopting a flexible, diversified, and multi‑stakeholder cooperation model—“not seeking to own everything, but to make the most of what is available”—to chart a course for the future of hydrogen energy. He further noted that, through their participation in today’s deliberation, government and business stakeholders have grown even more confident in leveraging the Pengwan Hydrogen Port Hydrogen Industry Park to establish the Shanxi (Lüliang) Hydrogen Energy Industry Demonstration Park.

The meeting resolved that the Saiding Design Institute would consolidate the remarks and recommendations of all participants and, within one week, draft a corresponding report to be submitted to the governments of Xiaoyi City and Lüliang City, thereby paving the way for the province’s hydrogen energy industry to lead the way in forging new pathways and ensuring the successful transformation of the energy revolution.