On February 22, 2017, the Press Conference on the Achievements of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization was held in Beijing. The executive vice-president of Maritime Silk Road Institute of HuaQiao University Professor Xu Peiyuan attended this conference. Nearly 400 Chinese and foreign guests from international organizations, industrial associations, enterprises and universities attended the press conference. The president of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization Liu Zhenya delivered an opening address. Shu Yinbiao, chairman of State Grid Corporation and vice-president of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization, hosted the press conference. UN Under-Secretary-General Wu Hongbo sent the video of congratulations, Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Royal Academy of Engineering, Imperial College London, and Technische University at Berlin sent letters of congratulations. Jiang Yi (Vice President of China Southern Power Grid),Richard Taylor (President of International Hydropower Association),Laurence Jones (Vice President of Edison Electric Institute),Guo Jianbo (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering)and Frank Behrendt (Academician of the German Academy of Engineering) delivered keynote speeches. On the same day, Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization published three innovative achievements: The White Book on the Strategies of the Development of Global Energy Interconnection, The Transnational and Transcontinental Power Grid Interconnection Technologies, The Prospect and the Development of Global Energy Interconnection and The Prospect (2017).
(Picture here: Press Conference Scene)