China mulls hydrogen policy support
Delegates to the country’s ‘two sessions’ raise potential bottlenecks to large-scale deployment without strengthened policy support
China could ramp up government support for hydrogen and fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) if a raft of proposals tabled at recent agenda-setting parliamentary meetings are passed into law. These include the expansion of FCEV urban demonstration clusters—of which there are five in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Shanghai, Guangdong and Henan—to cover additional cities and the creation of a national research platform for hydrogen storage and transportation. The proposals came from a number of delegates who attended the 14th sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). The meetings—known locally as the “two sessions” and wh
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