The overall goal of the plan is to develop the hydrogen energy industry into an important pillar of Zhangjiakou, to become a first-class hydrogen energy city in China by 2021, and to become an internationally renowned hydrogen energy city by 2035. In 2021, 2025, 2030 and 2035, the cumulative output value of hydrogen energy and related industries in the city reached 6 billion yuan, 26 billion yuan, 85 billion yuan and 170 billion yuan respectively.

In terms of enterprise cultivation, by 2021, an ecological system covering the preparation, storage and transportation of hydrogen energy, the filling of key equipment, the manufacture of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and pipe parts will be formed. The annual hydrogen production capacity of the city will reach 21,000 tons, and more than 20 enterprises will be introduced into the park. By 2035, the citys hydrogen production capacity will reach 50,000 tons, and more than 100 enterprises will be introduced into the park.

It is understood that the main task of hydrogen energy construction in Zhangjiakou will focus on the six major areas of hydrogen energy production, preparation, storage and transportation, technical facilities, fuel cells, fuel cell vehicles and demonstration applications, focusing on the construction of three major ecological systems of policies, industries and services for hydrogen energy cities.

Zhangjiakou hopes to foster and develop the hydrogen energy industry to form a new economic growth point, while achieving economic, social and environmental benefits. By building a complete industrial chain of hydrogen energy, Zhangjiakou expects to achieve a cumulative output value of 6 billion yuan and 170 billion yuan by 2021 and 2035, respectively, and create tax revenue of 360 million yuan and 10.2 billion yuan.

On the same day, the Zhangjiakou Municipal Government also reached cooperation framework agreements with the Energy Foundation and the China Automobile Technology Research Center respectively. In addition, several hydrogen energy related projects have been contracted to settle in Zhangjiakou.

When a new thing or a new industry comes into being, all over the country are looking for opportunities and doing research and development. It is likely that there will be a rush. At present, the heat of hydrogen fuel cell is unprecedented. In this case, Ouyang Minggao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a well-known expert in the field of new energy in China, was invited to be the chief scientist of Zhangjiakou Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Research Institute, and the Ouyang Minggao Academician Workstation was set up and operated in Zhangjiakou. Under the guidance of the team of academicians of Ouyang Ming Gao, Zhangjiakou is still rational and objective to promote the development of hydrogen energy. Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Secretary Hui Jian said.

Zhangjiakou has certain advantages in developing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Zhangjiakou is the only national demonstration zone of renewable energy in China. We must consider the development of hydrogen fuel cells in the context of renewable energy. Zhangjiakou is an excellent base for demonstration and promotion of hydrogen fuel cells, and the Winter Olympics is an excellent opportunity to establish hydrogen and renewable energy sources in Zhangjiakou. Whether renewable energy and hydrogen energy can be confined to China or not must be considered from a global perspective. Ouyang Minggao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief scientist of Zhangjiakou Hydrogen Possibility and Renewable Energy Research Institute, said.

In Ouyang Minggaos view, the development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is obviously different from pure electric vehicles. The development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles should not be everywhere but point-to-point and face-to-face.

The boom of electric vehicles has not yet passed, and the new air outlet of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles has come. Since this year, with the development of hydrogen energy into the government work report of the two sessions, many investment institutions and local governments have been enthusiastic about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

However, it is more difficult to develop hydrogen fuel cell vehicles than pure electric vehicles in terms of technical difficulties, industrial chain level and standard establishment.

In May this year, two people died and one was injured in an explosion at a water electrolysis hydrogen plant in South Korea. Toyota and Hyundai suspended sales of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in a hydrogen station on the outskirts of Oslo, Norway, on June 10. This alarms the development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

At present, hydrogen energy is somewhat ubiquitous. We are in Zhangjiakou to prevent problems that may result from ubiquitous blooming. The technical difficulty of hydrogen-powered vehicles is very great, bigger than pure electric vehicles, higher technical threshold, stricter requirements for standards and regulations, can not be casual, otherwise it will really happen. Ouyang Minggao said.

Ouyang Minggao calls for greater efforts to solve the relevant problems in a realistic and pragmatic manner, so as to promote the sustainable development of hydrogen fuel cells. We should develop hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in a more rational and rational way, not to hype, but to do more practical work.

Source: Liable Editor of 21st Century Economic Report: Liu Song_NBJ9949