Tianjin: Promoting the construction of new infrastructure and building a pioneer city in the energy revolution

On April 11, Li Hongzhong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, and Zhang Guoqing, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, held a video conference with Mao Weiming, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of State Grid Corporation of China, and Xin Baoan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and General Manager, to exchange views on deepening strategic cooperation, promoting the construction of new infrastructure, and building a pioneer city for energy revolution. Yin Hejun, Deputy Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, and Liu Zehong, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy General Manager of the company, attended the meeting and signed the contract. Lian Maojun, Deputy Mayor of Tianjin, and Zhang Zhigang, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy General Manager of the company, jointly signed the "Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement between Tianjin Municipal People's Government State Grid Corporation of China on Promoting the Construction of New Infrastructure and Building a Pioneer City for Energy Revolution" on behalf of both parties through cloud signing.

李鸿忠代表天津市委、市政府对国家电网公司长期以来全力保障天津电力供应、助力天津经济社会发展表示感谢。他说，国家电网公司在农网改造升级、电网跨越发展、推广绿色能源、发展智慧能源等方面开展了大量工作，推动天津电网向国内领先、世界先进的目标迈出了一大步。特别是在抗击疫情的人民战争、总体战、阻击战中，国家电网公司坚决落实党中央决策部署，统筹做好疫情防控和服务经济社会发展各项工作，在关键时刻以实际行动诠释了央企担当。李鸿忠表示，国家电网公司明确建设具有中国特色国际领先的能源互联网企业的战略目标，充分体现了贯彻落实习近平总书记重要讲话和指示批示精神的政治站位，彰显了央企在中国特色社会主义制度体系中的显著优势。天津是京津冀协同发展战略中的重要一环，希望国家电网公司持续提升能源电力供给智能化水平，推动新型基础设施建设落地，为京津冀协同发展提供强有力的支撑。天津将不断优化能源发展战略和产业布局，加大政策支持力度，更好服务国家电网在津发展。

Mao Weiming expressed his gratitude to the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government for their concern and support for the company's work, and introduced the company's work in fighting the epidemic, ensuring power supply, resuming work, helping the "six stability", stabilizing operations, and promoting development. Mao Weiming said that recently, the State Grid Corporation of China's Party Committee Theory Study Center Group once again carefully studied General Secretary Xi Jinping's new energy security strategy of "four revolutions and one cooperation", and was determined to more consciously take Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the guide, coordinate and grasp all reform, development and stability work, and better fulfill political responsibilities, economic responsibilities, and social responsibilities. The goal of building an energy revolution pioneer city proposed by Tianjin is highly consistent with the strategic goals of the State Grid Corporation of China, and the prospects for cooperation between the two sides are broad. The company will take this signing of the agreement as an opportunity to go all out to serve the construction of Tianjin's energy revolution pioneer city, continue to increase investment, promote Tianjin's energy transformation, and form a replicable and popularizable "Tianjin paradigm". Go all out to improve Tianjin's power supply guarantee capabilities, promote the accelerated construction of UHV supporting power sources, improve Tianjin's external power receiving capabilities, and scientifically plan the subsequent external power receiving channel construction. We will make every effort to promote the construction of new infrastructure in Tianjin, give full play to the advantages of resources such as technology, management, standards and platforms, attract more high-end innovative resources and market players to participate in the construction of Tianjin's smart energy and smart city, and serve Tianjin's economic and social development.

Zhang Guoqing said during the talks that State Grid Corporation of China completed the rural power grid transformation and upgrading and the "coal to electricity" task ahead of schedule, built the Binhai New Area Energy Internet Comprehensive Demonstration Zone and a number of leading smart energy demonstration projects, and strongly supported Tianjin's economic and social development. In the future, it is hoped that greater support will be given in promoting energy structure adjustment, increasing the flow of external electricity into Tianjin, optimizing industrial layout, and accelerating the construction of new infrastructure.

Xin Baoan introduced the company's strategic cooperation in improving power supply guarantee capabilities, coordinated development of power grids at all levels, serving the clean energy transformation, optimizing the electricity business environment, and settling industrial finance in Tianjin. He expressed that he will earnestly implement the agreement, actively promote the clean energy production, electrification of energy consumption, intelligent power grid development, industrialization of smart energy, and internationalization of power services in Tianjin, and open up new areas and opportunities for cooperative development.

According to the agreement, the two parties will thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important requirements for Tianjin’s work on “three focuses”, implement the central government’s decisions and arrangements on accelerating the construction of new infrastructure, promote the effective connection between the strategic goals of State Grid Corporation of China and the construction of “Five Modernized Tianjin”, and achieve leapfrog development of energy technology, industrial optimization and upgrading, and an overall leap in productivity.

Meng Qingsong, Secretary General of Tianjin Municipal Government, Jin Zhifang, Deputy Secretary General of Municipal Party Committee, Yang Mingyuan, Deputy Secretary General of Municipal Government, heads of relevant departments of Tianjin Municipal Government, Zhao Qingbo, Assistant to General Manager of the Company, Wang Shuxiang, Chief Economist and Office Director, heads of relevant departments of the headquarters, and heads of State Grid Tianjin Power attended the meeting and signed the contract. (Photo: Li Yifei)