Chief Economist of National Energy Administration, Mr. Li Zhi visited iChEM, College of Energy and National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols-Ethers-Esters on May 6 on Premier Li Keqiang’s instruction. He communicated with relevant experts and scholars to investigate the technology about producing natural gas from coal。

On May 6, during the discussion in iChEM, iChEM member & Dean of College of Energy Prof. Ning Li described the development of energy discipline, international collaboration and construction of research platform in XMU. The iChEM director Zhongqun Tian spoke about the general situation of iChEM, emphasizing the cooperation between XMU and DICP. iChEM member Prof. Ye Wang and Prof. Nanfeng Zheng reported the new technology and methods in coal engineering.

Mr. Li Zhi listening to the report, discussed with experts and scholars for relevant technical details. He then said China is a major energy-consuming country and the condition of our coal resources usage is still high-carbon, high-energy-consuming and inefficient. Thus, energy conservation and development of new energy become another key point of China's economic development. XMU is an important institution for research and development of national energy technology, which made fruitful breakthrough and innovation in the fields of producing oil, gas and energy from coal, multi-path transform of biomass energy, power energy and safe nuclear energy. XMU made in-depth researches on energy saving especially on water saving, which not only provides an effective basis for the National Energy Administration to make scientific industrial standards, but also benefit the country to develop long-term, medium-term and short-term projects of energy-structure management. He hoped that iChEM could enhance cooperation with companies and apply advanced technology to related industries efficiently, which will change patterns of consumption and production, and promote the efficiency of energy usage. He also hoped experts and scholars of iChEM can provide their valuable comments and suggestions for promoting efficient and clean utilization of resource, conserving and optimizing the energy structure.

People in charge of iChEM, College of Energy and Office of Science & Technology attended the activity.