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The plan of the year is spring, and the Silk Road Ancient Road is glowing with new vitality and vitality. The relationship between China and the five Central Asian countries is in the golden age of "thirty years old", showing a broad prospect of vigorous development, and cooperation is at the right time. Energy cooperation is a key area of cooperation between China and the five Central Asian countries. At the sub-forum on energy cooperation of the first "China+the five Central Asian countries" industrial and investment cooperation forum held recently in Qingdao, authoritative representatives and industry experts in the field of energy, with the theme of "energy industry reform and common prosperity", promoted more cooperation through in-depth communication, exchange and docking, and further opened a new chapter of energy cooperation between China and Central Asia, Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report.

At the meeting, the Qingdao International Energy Trading Center, jointly built by the Management Committee of the SCO Demonstration Zone and Shandong Port Group, was inaugurated and operated. The center centers on the three main lines of energy trading, supply chain finance and digital services, integrates platform resources such as the Qingdao Port Bulk Commodity Trading Center and the North China Oil and Gas Center, and builds a unified energy spot trading platform in Shandong Province, helping to open the entire oil and gas industry chain of the SCO Demonstration Zone, Deeply promote energy cooperation among the five Central Asian countries and countries along the "the Belt and Road".

"Since the trial operation last year, the Qingdao International Energy Trading Center has promoted the acceleration of business flow, logistics, information flow and capital flow, improved the efficiency of trading and circulation, reduced the cost of trading and logistics, and initially formed a scale effect." Zhang Dong, deputy director of the Management Committee of the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone, said that by the end of 2022, the Qingdao International Energy Trading Center has opened 61 accounts and 7 energy enterprises have settled in and carried out relevant businesses.

Liu Jianjun, Vice Mayor of Qingdao Municipal People's Government, said that as an international energy trading platform facing SCO countries and radiating the "the Belt and Road" and Northeast Asia, the platform will focus on building the most important energy trading center in northern China and provide standardized, professional and international trading scenarios and products for domestic and international energy industry chain enterprises.

In the future, China will continue to share development opportunities and dividends with friendly countries including Central Asia, strengthen close cooperation in energy industry, investment and other fields, and work together to promote high-quality development of regional economy..

Accelerated pace of energy cooperation

The energy cooperation between China and Central Asia is the "ballast" and "stabilizer" of bilateral friendly relations. The energy cooperation has a long history, a solid foundation and fruitful results. The third line A/B/C of the Central Asia natural gas pipeline and the Sino-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline are both successful examples of the interconnection of energy infrastructure between the two sides. The pace of bilateral green energy cooperation has been accelerating, and the largest wind power plant in Central Asia, the Zanatas wind power plant, has been built, and the largest gas-cycle power plant, the Xier River power plant in Uzbekistan, has also been built.

Zhou Hongwei, deputy director of the Operation Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the five Central Asian countries for more than 30 years, the two sides have jointly implemented a series of major engineering projects such as the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline, the China-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline, and the "Fuxing" gas field. China imports a large amount of pipeline natural gas from Central Asia every year, and the China-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline has maintained safe and stable operation since its official opening, Chinese enterprises have also actively participated in the construction of renewable energy projects such as wind power and photovoltaic in Central Asia. China and Central Asia are highly complementary in economic resources. Both traditional and new energy fields have huge cooperation space and development potential.

Zhou Hongwei said: "Next, we will continue to deepen the cooperation between China and Central Asia in the field of energy, consolidate and expand the achievements of cooperation in the field of oil and gas, jointly ensure the stable supply of oil and gas, further deepen the cooperation in the whole industrial chain, strengthen the cooperation in the development, construction and operation of renewable energy such as wind power and photovoltaic, and jointly cultivate the energy technology and its associated industries into a new growth point for common prosperity and development with the direction of green and low carbon, so as to make the economy of China and Central Asian countries Economic ties are closer, the pattern of cooperation in the energy and economic fields is more perfect, safe and stable, and we will work together to build a closer China Central Asia community of shared future, creating a vivid example of high-quality joint construction of the the Belt and Road. "

Guan Zhaoquan, a first-level inspector of the Development and Reform Commission of Shandong Province, said that Shandong and the five Central Asian countries have broad space for cooperation in green and low-carbon development of energy and the construction of the whole industrial chain of natural gas utilization. The two sides will actively build an efficient service platform to ensure stable and smooth cooperation with better and more powerful functions and better and more efficient services..

It is time to deepen energy cooperation

An Fengquan, deputy director of the International Cooperation Department of the National Energy Administration, made three suggestions on deepening China-Central Asia energy cooperation.

First, jointly promote the high-quality development of energy security. Central Asian countries are important energy producers, transit countries and consumers, and China is the largest energy consumer in the world. China is willing to work with the five Central Asian countries to implement the Statement on Safeguarding International Energy Security issued by the SCO Council of Heads of State at the Samarkand Summit last September, strengthen coordination in the field of energy security, ensure reasonable and appropriate upstream investment, and strengthen the connectivity of energy infrastructure, To ensure the safety and stability of the international energy and resources transportation channels and jointly maintain the safety and stability of the energy and resources industry chain.

The second is to seek green and low-carbon transformation of energy. At present, addressing the challenge of climate change has become a global consensus. Central Asian countries have generally put forward the goals of energy transformation and clean energy development, and the development of clean energy in Central Asia has ushered in an important strategic period. China is the country with the largest scale of renewable energy development in the world, with very strong design, manufacturing, construction and operation and maintenance capabilities, and has played an important role in global renewable energy technology innovation, cost reduction and efficiency increase. Chinese enterprises have given full play to their advantages and have carried out a number of influential clean energy cooperation projects in Central Asia, effectively promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of local energy. China encourages enterprises to continue to deepen clean energy cooperation in Central Asia in accordance with commercial principles, and encourages more projects to be implemented to benefit local people.

Third, jointly promote the innovation and development of energy technology. Innovation is the first driving force of energy transformation. The energy transformation of Central Asian countries is at a fast start and development stage. There is a large demand for energy technology innovation, and the potential for cooperation between the two sides is great. China is willing to strengthen cooperation in energy science and technology innovation with Central Asian countries, jointly carry out research and development and application of various clean energy technologies, strengthen technology transfer and sharing, expand the layout of renewable energy technologies, improve the level of clean energy utilization, and jointly promote the development of modern energy industry. China is willing to carry out joint research and development, engineering demonstration and commercial application with the five countries around hydrogen energy, energy storage, DC power grid, digital energy, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) and other fields, and improve the cooperation level of all parties with innovation as the breakthrough.

Build a good energy cooperation service platform

Shandong Port Group has done a lot of work in strengthening the hub function, building the port ecosystem, and comprehensively promoting the high-quality development of energy transformation. Li Fengli, director and general manager of Shandong Port Group Co., Ltd., said that the port is a key node of energy transportation. As the largest port group in the world at present, Shandong ports completed a total cargo throughput of 1.6 billion tons last year, an increase of 7.7% in the case of the COVID-19, and containers exceeded 37 million TEUs, an increase of 9.4% year on year. Especially for crude oil, Shandong ports imported more than 1/3 of China's crude oil, and completed more than 200 million tons last year, playing a very important role as a hub.

In terms of unblocking the international land-sea channel, the total number of routes and container liner routes of Shandong ports have reached 331 in the sea, including 237 foreign trade routes, which can reach almost all ports in the world. A total of 31 dry ports have been arranged in the land area, and now there are 82 sea-railway intermodal trains, which build a large land-sea channel to the world. The "Qilu" of the China Railway Development Bank can reach Central Asia and Europe. Last year, a total of 2057 trains were launched in Shandong. If the backlog in the dry port is not counted, it has become a very important link between China and Central Asia with the mode of going from west to east. In particular, as a transit, the port is a very important node for transit from the Pacific (goods from Japan and South Korea) to Central Asian countries.

Li Fengli said that Shandong Port has very complete energy facilities, and has the largest crude oil unloading terminal pipeline and storage and irrigation facilities in China. In the green transportation mode, such as transit to railway, transit to water, bulk to gas gathering, and especially oil to pipeline, pipeline transportation has taken an absolute weight. Last year, oil pipeline transportation completed 148 million tons, accounting for 56.5% of oil throughput. In terms of energy conservation and emission reduction, Shandong Port has reduced carbon emissions by 1.35 million tons. At the same time, Shandong Port is also constantly exploring a cleaner energy use structure, such as promoting "wind and solar energy storage", energy storage of wind energy and light energy, including the utilization of hydrogen energy and electric energy.

Li Fengli said: "We are committed to building an international, professional and standardized international energy trading center, including an international high-end energy information sharing platform." At the same time, Shandong Port is committed to achieving end-to-end one-stop comprehensive services for all settled customers, not only a trade and logistics service, but also we must build a comprehensive service of the SCO "trade+trade+finance" oil and gas ecosystem.

Develop energy partners

"The energy investment and trade, including engineering services, and supporting new energy industries of energy enterprises such as PetroChina in the five Central Asian countries can be said to be the representatives of the five links of the whole countries and regions along the the Belt and Road, namely, policy communication, facility connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial connectivity, and people to people connectivity." Lu Ruquan, president of the China Petroleum Economic and Technological Research Institute, said.

Lu Ruquan introduced the current situation of Chinese enterprises developing energy markets in Central Asia. On the one hand, at the top level of the country, through energy diplomacy and policy communication, it fully connects with the strategic plans of the five Central Asian countries, and fully connects the "the Belt and Road" initiative with the bright road of Kazakhstan, the development action strategy of Uzbekistan, and the strategy of reviving the Silk Road of Turkmenistan, including the relevant strategic plans of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. On the other hand, the technical standards of China's energy enterprises and energy industry are effectively connected with the standards of local resource countries and host countries, such as the Central Asia Natural Gas Pipeline and the China-Kazakhstan Crude Oil Pipeline.

Lu Ruquan said that the next step would be to build a China-Central Asia energy development partnership. First, we should achieve mutual protection of energy security along the line through hard connectivity. We should give full play to the geographical advantages of China and Central Asia and maintain the smooth operation of the existing oil and gas pipelines. Improve the development level of clean power, oil and gas and other new energy, build a number of small and beautiful projects, take enterprises as the main body, follow the principles of marketization and international practices, create a number of scenic projects, and make connectivity more smooth.

The second is to promote high-quality development of energy cooperation with soft connectivity. The key is to strengthen the in-depth docking of development strategies and policies between China and the five Central Asian countries, strengthen the exchange of strategic planning, understand the demands of both sides and the complementary needs of industries, build the energy transformation and development partnership of "oil and gas+new energy", and give full play to the advantages of traditional energy and new energy of Central Asian countries.

The third is to promote energy cooperation to achieve stability and prosperity through heart-to-heart connectivity. It includes opening up multiple paths for people-to-people and cultural exchanges, promoting the connection of people's hearts, creating a diversified and differentiated talent exchange platform, and Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report..