Hydrogen Energy and Low-Carbon Lanzhou Forum 2025 Successfully Held at Lanzhou University

On June 7, the Hydrogen Energy and Low-Carbon Lanzhou Forum 2025 was held at Lanzhou University. Nearly 300 experts and scholars engaged in in-depth exchanges on scientific and technological innovation and industrial development across the entire green hydrogen energy chain, exploring the development prospects of energy transition, industrial decarbonisation, and high-end development. During the forum, the Hydrogen Energy and Low-Carbon Center at Lanzhou University was launched.

At the forum, Lanzhou University signed cooperation agreements with 18 enterprises to jointly promote the construction of the Hydrogen Energy and Low-Carbon Center and industry-university-research collaboration. During the forum's reporting session, multiple experts delivered presentations on topics such as hydrogen energy and low-carbon development, energy transition, and energy security. In the guest forum session, several experts delivered keynote speeches. Professor Can Li chaired the first plenary session of the first Academic Committee of the Hydrogen Energy and Low-Carbon Center, where attending committee members provided suggestions and recommendations.

Against the backdrop of the accelerated transformation of the global energy system and the in-depth promotion of carbon neutrality, green hydrogen energy, as a zero-carbon energy source, is increasingly becoming an important engine for reshaping the global energy landscape. The Hydrogen Energy and Low-Carbon Center at Lanzhou University is a substantive scientific research institution, jointly led by Professor Can Li, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor Yongping Yang, President of Lanzhou University. It implements a director responsibility system under the leadership of a management committee, conducting organized scientific research through goal-oriented and task-driven approaches. The center will be based in Gansu, addressing the development needs of large energy bases in the western region. It will leverage Lanzhou University's strengths in new energy and low-carbon research to create a high ground for hydrogen energy and low-carbon innovation and R&D with western characteristics.

Through interdisciplinary collaboration in fields such as chemical physics, atmospheric environment, and energy and power, and in-depth cooperation with top-tier enterprises in the industry, Lanzhou University has established a full-chain innovation mechanism for industry-university-research-application integration, focusing on areas such as next-generation PV power generation, materials and equipment for water electrolysis hydrogen production, new-type energy storage technologies, solar fuel synthesis processes, and numerical weather prediction.