2019年12月16日，2019年中美能源合作会议暨中美能源合作项目（ECP）十周年招待会在北京举行。美国驻华大使泰里·布兰斯塔德（Terry Branstad）出席并致辞，美国驻华使馆商务处、美国能源部中国办公室、美国国务院和美国贸易发展署及中国生态环境部、国家能源局、商务部、应急管理部和住建部等部门代表出席，来自包括ECP会员公司在内的四十多家美方企业和机构、二十余家中方行业合作伙伴和五十家中方企业代表共计160余人参加了本次活动。会上，中美专家及嘉宾就“中美能源合作回顾和展望”和“中美能效环保创新与合作”主题进行了分享与探讨，内容涵盖了能源、能效、环保行业的现状、发展趋势、合作取得的成果以及未来可能要面对的挑战与机遇。
2019年，时逢中美能源合作项目（ECP）成立十周年，本次活动特别邀请了曾经在ECP平台上积极参与、卓有贡献的多位前董事会和行业领域同事参会。ECP的联合创始人和首任执行主任白思南（Sabina Brady）女士、前美国能源部助理部长Mark Ginsberg先生和前美国贸易发展署东亚区区域主任简杰锐（Geoffrey Jackson）先生也出席了会议及招待会。新老朋友一起回顾了ECP在创建之初的愿景、使命及发展战略，一致认为在部门之间、国家之间乃至全球，都需要像ECP这样的PPP平台。
另外，ECP之所以能够在短短十年间成长为如此有影响力的政企合作平台，离不开两国政府部门的支持，离不开合作伙伴们多年来的积极参与。此次十周年活动，ECP为表示感谢，特为中国机电产品进出口商会、中国对外承包工程商会、国家能源页岩气研发（实验）中心、国家页岩气技术标准化委员、中国城市和小城镇发展中心、中国产业海外发展和规划协会、美国国家标准协会、美国绿色建筑委员会、中国城市环卫协会建筑垃圾管理与资源化工作委员会、中国城市科学研究会绿色建筑研究中心、中国电子学会、中国石油和化工联合会、中国核学会、中国煤炭加工利用协会、中国建筑科学研究院建筑环境与节能研究院和中国节能协会节能服务委员会等近二十家机构颁发了优秀合作伙伴奖。
最后，为了鼓励更多有社会责任和公益心的企业和个人积极参与到用清洁环保能源推动公益事业的工作中来，“能源与公益”作为一个传统保留环节将活动推向高潮，ECP成员企业康菲石油公司、中美绿色基金旗下的华美绿色环保基金会、北京感恩公益基金会和中国下一代教育基金会的代表，将各自的能源、环保公益实践和成果进行了精彩分享。
十年是一个里程碑。一个承载着太多人美好祝愿的新开始。作为一个有业内口碑和影响力的政企合作平台，ECP期待与更多的合作伙伴携手，为中美两国企业打造更高效务实的商业合作机会，为中美能源行业在未来几十年继续做出贡献。
ECP Celebrates its 10th Anniversary in Beijing
On December 16, 2019, the U.S.-China Energy Cooperation Meeting and the US-China Energy Cooperation Program (ECP) 10th Anniversary reception was held in Beijing successfully. U.S. Ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, participated into the celebration and delivered a speech. Over 160 honorable guests attended this 10th Anniversary celebration event, including officials from both the U.S. Embassy Commercial Service, the China Office of the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and the Chinese Ministry of Ecological and Environment, National Energy Administration, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Emergency Management, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, as well as over 40 U.S. enterprises, 20 industrial association partners and 50 Chinese enterprises. At the meeting, the experts and guests from China and the United States shared and discussed the themes of “U.S.-China Energy Cooperation Review and Outlook” and “Innovation and Cooperation in Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection”. The contents covered the current situation, development trends and the achievements of cooperation, as well as possible challenges and opportunities in energy, energy efficiency and environment protection areas.
It is ECP’s 10th anniversary this year. Some former ECP board leaders, former executive directors, and some former company colleagues who had previously actively involved in the ECP platform and supported ECP were invited to the anniversary meeting and reception, including three special contributors to ECP: Ms. Sabina Brady, the Co-Founder and the First Executive Director of ECP, Mr. Mark Ginsberg, the former Assistant Secretary of U.S. Department of Energy, and Mr. Geffrey Jackson, the former Regional Director for East Asia of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. Together with new and old friends of ECP family, we reviewed the original vision, mission and development strategy when ECP was established, and agreed that ECP as the PPP platform was always needed by the two great countries and by the world.
In addition, the strong support and endorsement received over the past ten years from bilateral governmental and industrial partners is the important reason to make ECP grow into a such powerful public-private partnership and platform. At the reception, ECP awarded its “Outstanding Partners” to the China Chamber of Commerce for the Import and Export of Mechanical and Electrical Products (CCCME), the China International Engineering Contractors Association (CHINCA), the National Energy Shale Gas Research and Development (Experiment) Center, the Shale Gas Standardization and Technology Committee, the China Center for Urban Development (CCUD), the China Overseas Development Association (CODA), the American National Standards Institutes(ANSI), and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the National Committee on Construction Waste Management and Recycling(CWR), Green Building Research Center of China Urban Science Research Association, Chinese Institute of Electrics (CIE), China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association(CPCIA), China Nuclear Society (CNS), China Coal processing and Utilization Associationand China Academy of Building Research.
Finally, in order to encourage more and more enterprises and individuals to get involved in the social responsibility and charity related work by using clean and environmental energy, the “Energy and Charity” as the traditional retention program pushed the event to a climax. We invited the representatives from ConocoPhillips’ CSR team, Green Fund’s Huamei Green Environmental Protection Foundation, Beijing Thanksgiving Foundation and China Next Generation Education Foundation shared their CSR and Charity work.
Ten-year is a milestone. It is not a period but a comma, full of so many people’s best wishes. As a reputable and influential public private partnership, ECP looks forward to working with more partners to create a more efficient and much solid cooperation platform for the enterprises for both US and China. We expect ECP to continuously contribute to the U.S.-China energy cooperation in the next decades.
