The just concluded Central Economic Work Conference mapped out the path of China's economic work of the next year and made a good start for building a modern socialist country on all fronts in 2023.

The CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and the Fujian Provincial People’s Government thoroughly implemented the essence of the conference, and formulated implementation measures accordingly, emphasizing the continuous promotion of high-quality development, adhering to economic stability and the progress on the basis of stability, fostering the economy’s effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity, so as to constantly enhance the momentum and vitality of economic and social development.

Since the beginning of 2022, the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and the Fujian Provincial People’s Government have efficiently coordinated the COVID-19 prevention and control and the economic and social development to achieve a stable economic performance with good momentum for growth. Today Fujian Daily rolls out a new column named “Economic Stabilization for Development Promotion”, which will report a series of economic stabilization initiatives and their positive results made by various departments around the Fujian Province in resolutely implementing the decisions and deployment of the CPC Central Committee on economic work. Please follow the column closely.

April, Dec. 20 (Fujian Daily/ Li Ke, Gao Ling) Dongfang Electric Co., Ltd., Dongfang Electric (Fujian) Innovation Research Institute Co., Ltd, Shenzhen University and the Xie Heping Academician Team of Sichuan University signed a four-party cooperation agreement on "pilot testing and industrialization of original technology of seawater desalination-free in-situ direct electrolytic hydrogen production". According to the agreement, Dongfang Electric (Fujian) Innovation Research Institute Co., Ltd. will share the intellectual property of the technology of seawater desalination-free in-situ direct electrolytic hydrogen production, and will undertake the task of pilot testing, demonstration and industrialization. This means that this revolutionary scientific achievement has officially been introduced to Fuzhou, which will strongly promote the leapfrog development of hydrogen energy industry in Fujian Province.

Recently, Academician Xie Heping's team has made a major breakthrough in the field of direct hydrogen production from seawater, and published a paper in the journal of Nature.

This research is the first to establish the new principle and technology of in situ direct electrolytic hydrogen production from seawater without desalination driven by phase change migration from a new path of combining physical mechanics and electrochemistry.

Xie Heping, an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out that the original technology of seawater desalination-free in-situ direct electrolytic hydrogen production was expected to break the existing inherent thinking that pure water must be supplied to the system for hydrogen production from electrolytic water. He said that the technology could lead to a full-chain zero-carbon hydrogen energy development path with the industrial model of hydrogen production by direct electrolysis of seawater that features original mechanics, revolutionary technology, and Chinese equipment. Collaborative innovation with Dongfang Electric Group, the leading Chinese central state-owned enterprise in the field of hydrogen energy, can accelerate the application of this scientific achievement, said the academician.

Zhang Yanjun, the member of the party leadership group of Dongfang Electric Co., Ltd. and the deputy general manager of the company, said that this joint promotion of the technology of seawater desalination-free in-situ direct electrolytic hydrogen production is in line with the current national strategy of China and the enterprise’s development needs. Dongfang Electric Co., Ltd. will strongly support the innovation and development of this technology, promote the deep integration of industry, academia, research and application, and continuously improve Dongfang’s development pattern of the production, storage, processing and utilization of hydrogen energy, in contribution to the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and the Chinese strategic goals of carbon peaking and neutralization.

Liu Taisheng, executive board director and general manager of Dongfang Electric (Fujian) Innovation Research Institute Co., Ltd said that the institute, located in Fuzhou High-tech Zone, is a science and technology innovation enterprise jointly built by Dongfang Electric Co., Ltd, Fujian Province and Fuzhou City, which is mainly engaged in the R&D and industrialization of advanced new energy technologies such as offshore wind power, wave energy and hydrogen energy. Fujian Province is rich in zero-carbon energy, especially offshore wind power and nuclear power, and has a unique advantage in developing the green hydrogen industry. This cooperation will give full play to Xie Heping Team’s advantage in its leading, self-dependant and original research of basic science. In combination with Dongfang Electric’s technical support and market position in the field of clean energy equipment R&D and manufacturing, as well as the Fujian Province's advantage of abundant zero-carbon energy, the strong cooperation will create an original Chinese emerging strategic industry of "marine green hydrogen", in which multiple energy types complement each other.

Source：FJSEN.COM

Translation: 21CMCC