The Secretary for Environment and Ecology, Mr Tse Chin-wan, visited the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) and a charging infrastructure monitoring and service platform in Beijing today (August 20).
 
     In the morning, Mr Tse first visited the MEE to meet with its Minister Mr Huang Runqiu, for in-depth exchanges on the work of the Environment and Ecology Bureau, including the carbon reduction progress, promotion of green energy transition, development of green and low-carbon industries, progress of waste reduction and recycling, development of waste-to-energy facilities, nature and ecological conservation, air quality and overall water environment.
 
     Mr Tse expressed that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region can leverage its unique advantage of having strong support from the motherland and close connection with the world. Through the harnessing of the various green, low-carbon and new energy technologies and products of the country, Hong Kong will be able to foster local green and low-carbon development, whilst tap into the advantages under the "one country, two systems" to assist the Belt and Road Initiative and other countries in cultivating green development talents, thereby promoting green transformation and supporting green enterprises of our country to branch out.

     Mr Tse visited the State Grid Smart Internet of Vehicles Company Ltd in the afternoon to learn more about the National Charging Infrastructure Monitoring and Service Platform. The platform has currently achieved vertical data integration with 31 provincial-level platforms and serves as the only official channel for statistics of the charging and battery swapping industry in the country. It also supports nationwide monitoring of highway charging facilities, as well as industry monitoring, planning and policy formulation. He later toured the vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at China Re Building, which is equipped with the first domestically developed 15-kilowatt direct current bidirectional charging and discharging pile, and has been included in the State Grid Corporation of China's (State Grid) source-grid-load-storage interactive demonstration project.
 
    Mr Tse will visit the State Grid and the Beijing Power Exchange Center tomorrow (August 21) to exchange views on and keep abreast of the latest developments of the country’s electricity market.
 
    Mr Tse will return to Hong Kong tomorrow afternoon.

Ends/Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Issued at HKT 21:14

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