Hydrogen City

Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, will build itself into a hydrogen city through developing its hydrogen energy industry, according to a recently released city development plan.

The city is to advance the research and development of core technology for hydrogen production, storage and transportation, improving hydrogen infrastructure over the coming years.

A hydrogen energy industrial park is expected to be built in the city, gathering more than 100 fuel cell automakers and related enterprises, the plan said.

The city will build up to 20 hydrogen fueling stations from 2018 to 2020 to support the running of around 3,000 hydrogen powered vehicles.

Wuhan is scheduled to become a world hydrogen city by 2025, with three to five trailblazing hydrogen enterprises and 30 to 100 hydrogen fueling stations. The annual production value of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles will exceed 100 billion yuan ($15.63 billion), the plan added.

“Despite a late start, China has made rapid progress in hydrogen development, mastering the core technologies of the hydrogen fuel cell,” said Zhang Qingjie, President of Wuhan University of Technology. more TCM labs and research centers in the near future.

The administration highlighted the development of the TCM industry during the past five years and also promised the further promotion of TCM.

Wang Guoqiang, head of the administration, said that in addition to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou in 2015, 41 new TCM discoveries have won state science and technology awards since late 2012.

Over 400 ancient books on TCM have been edited and published during the past five years, Wang added.

According to recent figures provided by the administration, about 17.5 percent of all patients in China are treated with TCM.