ECP Celebrates its 10th Anniversary in Beijing

On December 16, 2019, the U.S.-China Energy Cooperation Meeting and the US-China Energy Cooperation Program (ECP) 10th Anniversary reception was held in Beijing successfully. U.S. Ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, participated into the celebration and delivered a speech. Over 160 honorable guests attended this 10^th Anniversary celebration event, including officials from both the U.S. Embassy Commercial Service, the China Office of the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and the Chinese Ministry of Ecological and Environment, National Energy Administration, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Emergency Management, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, as well as over 40 U.S. enterprises, 20 industrial association partners and 50 Chinese enterprises. At the meeting, the experts and guests from China and the United States shared and discussed the themes of "U.S.-China Energy Cooperation Review and Outlook” and "Innovation and Cooperation in Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection". The contents covered the current situation, development trends and the achievements of cooperation, as well as possible challenges and opportunities in energy, energy efficiency and environment protection areas.

It is ECP’s 10^th anniversary this year.  Some former ECP board leaders, former executive directors, and some former company colleagues who had previously actively involved in the ECP platform and supported ECP were invited to the anniversary meeting and reception, including three special contributors to ECP: Ms. Sabina Brady, the Co-Founder and the First Executive Director of ECP, Mr. Mark Ginsberg, the former Assistant Secretary of U.S. Department of Energy, and Mr. Geffrey Jackson, the former Regional Director for East Asia of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. Together with new and old friends of ECP family, we reviewed the original vision, mission and development strategy when ECP was established, and agreed that ECP as the PPP platform was always needed by the two great countries and by the world.

In addition, the strong support and endorsement received over the past ten years from bilateral governmental and industrial partners is the important reason to make ECP grow into a such powerful public-private partnership and platform. At the reception, ECP awarded its “Outstanding Partners” to the China Chamber of Commerce for the Import and Export of Mechanical and Electrical Products (CCCME), the China International Engineering Contractors Association (CHINCA), the National Energy Shale Gas Research and Development (Experiment) Center, the Shale Gas Standardization and Technology Committee, the China Center for Urban Development (CCUD), the China Overseas Development Association (CODA), the American National Standards Institutes(ANSI), and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the National Committee on Construction Waste Management and Recycling(CWR), Green Building Research Center of China Urban Science Research Association, Chinese Institute of Electrics (CIE), China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association(CPCIA), China Nuclear Society (CNS), China Coal processing and Utilization Associationand China Academy of Building Research.

Finally, in order to encourage more and more enterprises and individuals to get involved in the social responsibility and charity related work by using clean and environmental energy, the "Energy and Charity" as the traditional retention program pushed the event to a climax. We invited the representatives from ConocoPhillips’ CSR team, Green Fund’s Huamei Green Environmental Protection Foundation, Beijing Thanksgiving Foundation and China Next Generation Education Foundation shared their CSR and Charity work.

Ten-year is a milestone. It is not a period but a comma, full of so many people’s best wishes. As a reputable and influential public private partnership, ECP looks forward to working with more partners to create a more efficient and much solid cooperation platform for the enterprises for both US and China. We expect ECP to continuously contribute to the U.S.-China energy cooperation in the next decades.