Events

With the domestic economic rebounds and increasing attention to environmental protection, China's natural gas industry has entered a prosperous session of development. In 2017, the demand for natural gas in China had an explosive growth, with a phenomenal gas shortage during the winter. The conflict between supply and demand of natural gas has attracted great attention from all parties. 

In 2018, one of the priorities of the newly established Ministry of Ecology and the Environment is still to optimize the reform of energy structure, to promote coal to gas, and to develop clean energy. During China's Two Sessions in 2018, "supply of Natural gas," "unity of natural gas price," and "strategic reservation of natural gas" were all frequently mentioned. As a relatively efficient clean energy, natural gas will occupy an increasingly important position in China's energy market. The development of natural gas is also an inevitable trend of China's energy transition. In the future, it will become a heated topic about the planning and adjustment of the natural gas industry and how China handles the conflicts between supply and demand of natural gas and regional imbalances.

On March 29 at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, Mr. David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, invites the most authoritative experts in China's natural gas industry, Mr. Fu Chengyu and Ms. Li Yalan, to discuss the status quo and prospects of China's natural gas market, and the future opportunities and challenges of natural gas cooperation between China and the United States.

Speakers

Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

Chair of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Network China, Former Chairman and CEO of CNOOC and Chairman of SINOPEC

Chairperson of the Board of Directors at Beijing Gas Group Co., Ltd., Incoming IGU President 2021-2024, and Executive Chairperson of China Gas Association

Agenda

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 

Registration

2:00 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.

Opening Introduction

2:05 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.

Dialogue

3:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 

Q&A

Special Notice

• The event will be conducted in English with Chinese-English simultaneous translation.

• Due to limited seats, registration will be verified through the QR code of confirmation. Please present the QR code at the entrance. 

• Please plan to arrive no earlier than the registration time and no later than 20 minutes after the end of registration period.

• If you are unable to attend the event, please inform us in advance. 

• If you have any questions, please leave us a message below or email to beijing.cgc@columbia.edu.