2026氢能产业高质量发展大会在京召开2026 Hydrogen Industry High-Quality Development Conference Held in Beijing

According to Green Fuel International Business Network, the 2026 Hydrogen Industry High-Quality Development Conference, a parallel session of the ESG Innovation Annual Meeting (2026), was held at Shougang Park in Beijing on September 20-21. The conference was hosted by the China Enterprise Reform and Development Society (CERDS) and organized by the CERDS Sustainable Development Working Committee and the Beijing Zhongyou Energy Petroleum and Petrochemical Technology Center.

Over two days, the conference brought together academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and experts, scholars and industry representatives from central enterprises, local state-owned enterprises, research institutes and universities for in-depth discussion of core topics including hydrogen technology innovation, full-chain breakthroughs, engineering demonstration, scenario expansion, value chain coordination and safe development. Focusing on the pain points in building a new-type energy system and commercializing hydrogen, participants shared frontline industry practice and assessed industry trends, building consensus and exploring paths for China's hydrogen industry to move from demonstration pilots to scaled, high-quality development.

Peng Huagang, president of CERDS and former Party Committee member and secretary-general of SASAC under the State Council, said in the host's address that hydrogen links energy security at one end and green, low-carbon development at the other, and is an important strategic track for cultivating new quality productive forces and implementing the "dual carbon" goals. Major economies worldwide are stepping up their hydrogen layouts; China has included hydrogen in major projects under the 15th Five-Year Plan, its policy system keeps improving, more than one third of central enterprises have laid out the full hydrogen value chain, demonstration projects continue to come online and the industrial ecosystem is taking shape.

At the meeting, Peng Suping and Ling Wen, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Jin Zhijun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave reports on frontier directions such as pan-hydrogen technology and industrial practice, sustainable development of renewable energy and natural hydrogen. Representatives of Dongfang Electric, China Iron & Steel Research Institute, Shougang, PowerChina, Sinopec Star and CNOOC Gas & Power shared progress in hydrogen production equipment, pure hydrogen metallurgy, pipeline steel for hydrogen transport, green hydrogen refining and hydrogen blending in pipelines.

Representatives of PetroChina's Planning Institute, PipeChina's Research Institute, CGN, CRRC Zhuzhou Institute and Huadian Heavy Industries held discussions on green hydrogen cost reduction, storage and transportation safety, hydrogen-electricity coordination, flexible hydrogen production and fuel cell vehicle demonstrations.

Participants reached consensus that China's hydrogen industry is in a critical window as it moves from demonstration applications to scaled deployment, and that the 15th Five-Year Plan period will be the core push period for the industry to close the technology, cost and business loops. Building on resource endowments and driven by scenario applications, the industry must continue to tackle core technologies, shore up weaknesses in the value chain, improve infrastructure layouts, strengthen industry standards and open up a closed loop for market-based development.