PH Consulate General in Shanghai Pushes for Clean Energy Cooperation at Lianyungang Belt and Road Seminar

Consul Conrado Demdem (right) and Attaché Ronaldo Villanueva (left) at the Seminar on Green Projects for Belt & Road Cooperation. (Shanghai PCG photo)

LIANYUNGANG CITY, JIANGSU PROVINCE, 28 October 2021 – Philippine Consulate General Economic Officer Consul Conrado B. Demdem, Jr. and Attaché Ronaldo B. Villanueva joined diplomats from Beijing and Shanghai at the “Seminar on Green Projects for Belt & Road Cooperation” held at the Hai Zhou Bayview Hotel in the coastal city of Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province from 21 to 22 October 2021.

Organized by the National Development and Reform Commission’s Belt & Road Initiative Center, the two-day event showcased China’s advancement of a “Green Silk Road”. Governments partnering with China under the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) framework shared their experiences in promoting green and sustainable development.

Key speakers were NDRC Deputy Secretary General Mr. SU Wei, MFA International Economic Affairs Department Deputy DG Mr. Guo Xuejun, Jiangsu Province Development and Reform Commission Deputy DG Mr. Wang Xiandong, and Lianyungang Acting Mayor and CPC Lianyungang Municipal Committee Deputy Secretary Mr. Ma Shiguang.  Speakers from enterprises, academic institutions, and selected diplomatic missions in Beijing and Shanghai showcased notable BRI Green Projects.

On the sidelines of the event, Consul Demdem engaged NDRC’s Belt & Road Initiative Center Director General Mr. ZhaiI Dongsheng and Lianyungang Development and Reform Commission Deputy Director Mme. Li Feifei on the Philippines’ own initiatives to attain clean and green development. Consul Demdem also welcomed an expression of interest from Zonergy Executive in supplying solar panels and components to the Philippines, which company executives saw as “a country with great potential in solar power.”

Capping the two-day event was a tour on 22 October of the Lianyungang Port, the Lianyungang PetroChem Industry Base Planning Exhibition Hall, and the Kanion Pharmaceutical (KP) Factory, China’s first “intelligent manufacturing factory” for traditional Chinese medicine.

A coastal city by the Yellow Sea, Lianyungang plays a central role in China’s national development plans. As a primary node city, it serves as an important transportation hub in China and a key international hub port in Eurasia. END

Consul Demdem joins other diplomats at the Lianyungang Port; Consul Demdem with Zonergy’s Kevin QIU. (Shanghai PCG photo)

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