Workshop on A Strategy for Cleaner Coal in China Held in CCII

Workshop on A Strategy for Cleaner Coal in China Held in CCII, May 15th, 2008.

Workshop on A Strategy for Cleaner Coal in China, sponsored by IEA, was held in CCII on May 15th, 2008. President Huang Shengchu from CCII, Mr Zhang Guo from Energy Bureau of NDRC attended the workshop, officials from IEA including Mr. Ian CRONSHAW, Dr. Brian RICKETTS and Dr Jonathan SINTON as well. Also 30 foreign representatives from large coal companies of IEA member countries, such as Electric Power Research Institute, Peabody Energy Co. Inc., BHP Billiton, Siberian Coal Energy Co. (SUEK), RWE Power AG and other organizations, and more than 10 Chinese experts presented at the workshop. Totally there are more than 40 attendees. And it was co-chaired by president Huang Shengchu and Dr Jonathan SINTON from IEA. Findings of the project A Strategy for Cleaner Coal in China was discussed in the workshop and comments and recommendations on further improvement were put forward.

The project was agreed by NDRC and IEA when Chen Deming, former deputy president of NDRC, met with the head of IEA Claude Mandil on January 19th 2007. CCII and experts from IEA member countries were authorized to implement the research jointly. The main topics of the research include coal resource development, coal mine safety, cleaner coal utilization and environment and so on. It aims at producing strategies and political recommendations on accelerating cleaner coal technology development in china by investigating into the problems and challenges existing in China’s coal industry and analyzing future development direction and opportunities for cleaner coal technology in China. Liu Wenge, director of Energy and Safety Division, and project team members also attended the workshop.