Director of the National Energy Administration Visits Countries in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar | Related | National Energy Administration
From May 28th to June 5th, Zhang Jianhua, Director of the National Energy Administration, was invited to lead a delegation to visit the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to implement the results of the first China Arab and China Sea summits, strengthen policy coordination with relevant countries, and promote practical energy cooperation.
During his stay in the UAE, Zhang Jianhua met with Azruyi, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of the UAE, Malar, Director of the Abu Dhabi Energy Bureau, and Hamadi, President of the UAE Nuclear Energy Company, to exchange in-depth views on China Arab cooperation in fields such as oil and gas, photovoltaics, hydrogen energy, and nuclear energy. During his time in Saudi Arabia, he met with Saudi Energy Minister Abdul Aziz and co chaired the China Saudi Energy Cooperation Conference. He agreed to strengthen dialogue on energy mechanisms between the two sides and reached a series of consensus on promoting practical cooperation in fields such as oil and gas, hydrogen energy, and civilian nuclear energy. Meeting with Saudi Aramco President and CEO Nasser, Vice President of Saudi Public Investment Fund Hamid, and Chairman of Saudi International Power and Water Company Abunayan to further enhance practical cooperation in fields such as oil and gas, renewable energy, and hydrogen energy. During his stay in Qatar, he met with Deputy Emir Abdullah Hamad of Qatar. Both sides highly praised the fruitful achievements of China Qatar energy cooperation and stated that they will continue to deepen practical cooperation under the strategic guidance of the leaders of both countries to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. Zhang Jianhua also met with Saad Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs and President and CEO of Ka Energy Company, and agreed to jointly support the deepening of natural gas trade and upstream cooperation between the two companies.
During the visit, Zhang Jianhua also presided over symposiums for Chinese enterprises in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, to understand the local business development and key cooperation projects of the enterprises, and conducted on-site research on key cooperation projects in oil, gas, new energy and other fields between Chinese enterprises and relevant countries.
The main responsible persons of relevant departments of the National Energy Administration participated in the above activities.