I'm delighted to say that China is one of our most important association country members (in the International Energy Agency). This means China is involved in all aspects of our work: from resilience to oil market shocks, to renewables and energy efficiency.
It is wonderful that Shanxi today is welcoming international partners here to deepen cooperation and collaboration. In our ever more interconnected world, energy transition is a global and intergenerational process. We need to think, learn and grow together with the sunrise industries of the future. One word captures the essence of what is needed: "innovation". And innovation is better when drawing upon the diversity of hard-won experience from around the world.
-- Alan Searl, project manager at IEA