On March 29 at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, Mr. David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, invited the most authoritative experts in China's natural gas industry, Mr. Fu Chengyu and Ms. Li Yalan, to discuss the status quo and prospects of China's natural gas market, and the future opportunities and challenges of natural gas cooperation between China and the United States.
在3年前的巴黎气候大会上，中国国家主席习近平承诺将为应对全球气候变化注入中国力量。习主席强调，“中国将把生态文明建设作为‘十三五’规划重要内容，落实创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享的发展理念，通过科技创新和体制机制创新，实施优化产业结构、构建低碳能源体系、发展绿色建筑和低碳交通、建立全国碳排放交易市场等一系列政策措施，形成人和自然和谐发展现代化建设新格局。”随着中国经济回暖和对环保问题的越发重视，中国天然气产业已经进入了发展的黄金时期。
Three years ago at the Paris climate summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a pledge that "going forward, ecological endeavors will feature prominently in China's 13th Five-Year Plan. China will work hard to implement the vision of innovative, coordinated, green, open and inclusive development. China will, on the basis of technological and institutional innovation, adopt new policy measures to improve industrial mix, build low-carbon energy system, develop green building and low-carbon transportation, and build a nation-wide carbon emission trading market so as to foster a new pattern of modernization featuring harmony between man and nature." With the domestic economic rebounds and increasing attention to environmental protection, China's natural gas industry has entered a prosperous session of development.
联合国全球契约中国网络主席、原中海油董事长兼总经理和中石化董事长傅成玉先生谈到：“天然气在中国将会越来越重要。全世界传统的石油公司、能源公司都在向绿色低碳转型，很多大的石油公司都在瞄准天然气领域，所以中国企业不可避免的也要追求绿色低碳，也要更多的开发天然气。”
"The natural gas industry will become more and more important in China," said Mr. Fu Chengyu, Chair of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Network China and former Chairman and CEO of CNOOC and Chairman of SINOPEC. "Many traditional oil and energy companies in the world have made progress in developing green and low-carbon energy. This is an overall trend, and is no different for Chinese companies."
2017年，我国天然气的需求量呈现爆发式增长，入冬以后更是出现“气荒”现象，天然气的供需矛盾引起各方的关注。未来我国如何处理天然气的供需矛盾和地区不平衡，天然气产业的发展会有怎样的规划和调整，都是值得关注的重要问题。
In 2017, the demand for natural gas in China had an explosive growth, with a phenomenal gas shortage during the winter. The conflict between supply and demand of natural gas has attracted great attention from all parties. In the future, it will become a heated topic about the planning and adjustment of the natural gas industry and how China handles the conflicts between supply and demand of natural gas and regional imbalances.
北京市燃气集团董事长、国际燃气联盟（IGU）2021－2024年任期主席、中国城市燃气协会执行理事长李雅兰女士表示：“刚刚过去的这个冬季中国的天然气供应上出现了最为严重的一次供需紧缺，其中一个重要的原因是中国整个天然气产业链里面储存能力非常低造成的，只占我们全年总用气量的3%左右。”
"In the past winter, we were facing the most severe natural gas shortages in China due to the lack of storage capacity, amounted to just three percent of total consumption," said Ms. Li Yalan, Chairperson of the Board of Directors at Beijing Gas Group Co., Ltd., Incoming IGU President 2021-2024, and Executive Chairperson of China Gas Association.
李雅兰女士进一步谈到，正是因为这一次短缺，中国政府非常重视并提出要求，进行产、供、储、销整个体系的设计工作，确保未来中国天然气行业能健康的发展。点击下方视频，观看本次专家对话的全程回顾。
Ms. Li continued that the Chinese government has paid great attention to this problem and has required to design the system of manufacture, supply, storage, and sale of natural gas to ensure the healthy development of China's natural gas industry. Please click the video below to review the dialogue.
（来源：哥大全球中心）
