Professor Liang Qi: Build a World-class Emerging Hydrogen Energy industrial Cluster in the Greater Bay Area

Recently, Professor Liang Qi from the School of Business, Sun Yat-sen University - member of the CPPCC of Guangdong Province, Director of the Industry and Regional Development Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University, while serving as a guest on the "Sectors' Round-table" of Guangdong Channel of people.cn, suggested that the Greater Bay Area should attach great importance to the hydrogen energy industry and cultivate it as a strategic emerging industry of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Professor Liang Qi introduced that the hydrogen energy industry will play an increasingly important core supporting role in the upcoming global energy revolution. She believes that it is of great significance to take the lead in deploying the hydrogen energy industry in the Greater Bay Area, which can fully promote the development of science and technology and manufacturing in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, thus promoting the rapid rise of China's hydrogen energy industry in the short term.

"While building a strategic propeller for the new development pattern and striving to achieve high-quality development, Guangdong still insists on being a strong manufacturing province." Liang Qi believes that, taking Foshan’s current effective new energy vehicles as an example, the manufacturing industry is also the main battlefield of scientific and technological innovation, and the hydrogen energy industry has great room for innovation. She also believes that in the next step, the extensive demonstration of hydrogen commercial vehicles should be combined with the proper promotion of hydrogen passenger vehicles to accelerate the transition of the development of new energy vehicles in the Greater Bay Area to hydrogen energy.

In view of the high cost of hydrogen production, Professor Liang Qi said: "The application of ice storage electricity price policy and the integration of Guangdong nuclear power and renewable energy hydrogen production platforms, should form the hydrogen price advantage of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the international market as soon as possible."

Professor Liang Qi suggested to build a national-level China Hydrogen Science and Technology Research Institute in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, integrate and attract global high-end talents in hydrogen energy industry to seize the commanding heights of talents. In addition, she suggested that suitable areas should be selected to build the hydrogen energy social demonstration sites, so as to enhance the society's understanding of hydrogen energy.