On April 11, a China-Switzerland Energy Cooperation Seminar was held in Beijing. The meeting implemented the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Cooperation in the Energy Sector signed in January this year between the National Energy Administration (NEA) and the Swiss Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Telecommunications, and studied and formulated a roadmap for China-Switzerland energy cooperation. During the meeting, Li Fanrong, Vice Minister of the NEA, met with Ambassador Fürth-Fryer of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy, who was in China specifically to attend the meeting.

　　Li Fanrong stated that in recent years, exchanges and cooperation between China and Switzerland in clean energy, power technology and equipment, and other fields have progressed steadily, achieving mutually beneficial results. In January this year, the energy authorities of both countries signed the MOU under the joint witness of their leaders. Going forward, both sides should take the implementation of the MOU as an opportunity to innovate, forge ahead, continuously broaden the scope of cooperation, and enhance the level of cooperation, injecting new content into the China-Switzerland innovative strategic partnership.

　　Fryer stated that China and Switzerland have strong complementarity in the energy sector, especially in clean energy technologies, where there is great potential and space for cooperation. He hoped that by formulating a roadmap, the cooperation content defined in the MOU could be effectively implemented. At the meeting, both sides discussed and exchanged views on the prospects for Sino-Swiss energy cooperation, bottlenecks in renewable energy planning and development, energy storage technology, and technologies and developments in pumped hydro storage and smart grids. Based on this, the working teams from both sides also consulted on a draft roadmap for Sino-Swiss energy cooperation and reached a basic consensus.

　　More than 50 people attended the meeting, including representatives from the National Energy Administration, relevant energy companies and research institutions, the Swiss Federal Office of Energy, the Swiss Embassy in China, EPFL, and ABB.

Li Fanrong, Deputy Director of the National Energy Administration, met with Franz Freige, Energy Ambassador of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.