{"id":2737,"date":"2016-09-21T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugpower.local\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2016-09-21T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:17:23","slug":"industry-vips-review-development-of-fuel-cells-and-hydrogen-economy-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/industry-vips-review-development-of-fuel-cells-and-hydrogen-economy-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry VIPs Review Development of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Economy in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Plug Power\u2019 s CEO and President, Mr. Andy Marsh, met with Mr. Yong Wan, the Mayor of Wuhan on the morning of Tuesday, September 21 in Wuhan, China. Mr. Wan provided an overview of Wuhan city and the government&#8217;s initiatives <a class=\"entry-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4206.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4206-e1474460103574-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Marsh with major of Wuhan\" width=\"172\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a> in support of local hydrogen economy and innovations. Mr. Marsh discussed Plug Power&#8217;s commercial fuel cell applications and ongoing collaboration with local companies and institutions around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Wuhan, China, the capital city of Hubei province, has a population greater than 10 million and is the largest car manufacturing city in the world. \u201cI am impressed by Mayor Wan\u2019s leadership in Wuhan, a city full of\u00a0great universities, many dedicated to developing innovative fuel cell and hydrogen technologies,\u201d commented Andy Marsh. \u201cHe truly is guiding the development of the hydrogen economy in China.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Also attending the close-door meeting were Dr. Xianjing Yang, Party Secretary of Tongji University (4th to the right), Dr. <a class=\"entry-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4210.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2739 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4210-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Marsh with university representatives in China\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Yanxing Wang, President of China University of Geosciences (3rd to the right), Dr. Yiguo Hao, President of Institute of Geoenvironmental Research (2nd to the left) , and Dr. Zhuoping Yu, Assistant to President and Dean of College of Automotive Engineering, Tongji University. Tongji University is one of top ten universities in China. It is also where China&#8217;s first fuel cell vehicle was built in its College of Automotive Engineering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">At the far right is Prof. Hansong Cheng at China University of Geosciences, the inventor of the world&#8217;s first on-board liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) device for fuel cell vehicles, which was successfully demonstrated in a fuel cell bus for Mr. Marsh and other VIP guests after the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plug Power\u2019 s CEO and President, Mr. Andy Marsh, met with Mr. Yong Wan, the Mayor of Wuhan on the morning of Tuesday, September 21 in Wuhan, China. Mr. Wan provided an overview of Wuhan city and the government&#8217;s initiatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}