China's technologies and products are giving crucial support to help partner countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) accelerate their green transformation, according to officials attending the SCO Energy Ministerial Meeting in Ningbo City of east China's Zhejiang Province.
The two-day meeting kicked off on Thursday, attracting top representatives and diplomatic envoys from SCO member states to share the best practices in advancing the energy transition and boosting sustainable development.
As green and low-carbon development has become an increasing global consensus, China has been continuously innovating its energy technology and equipment manufacturing, and is providing practical and efficient solutions for the SCO countries, according to attendees.
"[In] making the green economy, China is one of our key partners and I would like to say that almost all technological solution equipment which we use for the green energy is being supplied from China. At the present time, we're implementing together more than 20 projects in different areas," said Uzbek Energy Minister Jurabek Mirzamahmudov.
"For us, it is of vital importance to introduce efficient and innovative technologies from China. It's timely to hold this meeting under the framework of the SCO, as it not only meets the current development needs but also provides an important guarantee for the future in the formulation of technical standards and the coordination of certification," said Ilyas Bakytzhan, Deputy Minister of Energy of Kazakhstan.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Abunayyan, founder and chairman of the ACWA Power Company, Saudi Arabia's largest private water desalination firm, said he looks forward to working closely with China to advance the energy transition.
"We are going to work with many universities and many research and development centers in China. And we are working with many Chinese R and D centers here to develop the new energy and to develop the new desalination [projects]," he said.
Thursday's opening ceremony also witnessed the official release of the China-SCO Renewable Energy Cooperation Report 2024. Data shows that last year, the total installed power generation capacity of SCO countries was about 4.7 billion kilowatts, accounting for 49 percent of the global total.
Sohail Khan, the SCO's deputy secretary general, stressed the important role China is playing in working with all members to boost their energy sectors.
"Basically, China is having very close energy contacts with all the members, almost all the members of the SCO countries and these are basically sectors like electricity generation, like oil and gas, like nuclear energy, like renewable energies. And I hope the high technology products that have come out in the market, they will be of great use, especially from China, which is producing such products for making such projects, or implementing such projects in practice," said Sohail Khan, deputy secretary general of the SCO. The opening day of the meeting has already yielded several concrete results, with the signing agreements being made for 25 new energy projects worth about 40 billion yuan (about 5.6 billion U.S. dollars), representing a total installed capacity of some 12 million kilowatts.
Chinese technologies supporting SCO countries' energy transition: officials
