On November 15, China Energy Engineering Corporation held a seminar on scientific and technological innovation work to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, implement the important deployments of the National Science and Technology Conference and the Central Enterprise Science and Technology Innovation Conference, comprehensively summarize work achievements, identify gaps in light of the situation, and systematically plan the key objectives and tasks of scientific and technological innovation for the next stage. Song Hailiang, Secretary of the Company's Party Committee and Chairman, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech titled "Strengthen the Principal Role of Innovation, Build Strategic Scientific and Technological Strength, and Provide Scientific and Technological Support for Building a High-Quality Development 'Four New' China Energy Engineering." Wu Yun, Member of the Standing Committee of the Company's Party Committee and Vice President, attended the meeting.

The meeting noted that since the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Company's new leadership team has consistently treated scientific and technological innovation as the "No. 1 Project," vigorously implemented the strategy of "strengthening the enterprise through science and technology and innovative development," achieved systematic upgrading and dimensional elevation, and powerfully driven high-quality development of the enterprise. Over the past four years, the Company's scientific and technological innovation work has produced a batch of landmark achievements and a series of historic breakthroughs. These achievements deserve full recognition and have been extremely hard-won; they are the result both of the careful planning, deployment, and promotion by the Company's Party Committee and of the pioneering, innovative, and strenuous efforts of all comrades on the science and technology front. The scientific and technological innovation system has been comprehensively reshaped, with the establishment of a "1+N+X" innovation platform system, the improvement of mechanisms such as "open competition for key tasks," "horse racing," and industry-academia-research-application collaboration, and vigorous cultivation of a talent team of outstanding innovators and scientists, the "two categories" of talent. The system integration capability of scientific and technological innovation has been significantly enhanced: the Company initiated and established the China New Energy Storage Industry Innovation Alliance, formed 6 national-level R&D platforms and 14 major specialized research institutes, had its original technology source for new energy storage selected as a second-batch source by SASAC, and accelerated the implementation of system solutions such as carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, new power systems, compressed air energy storage, and integrated hydrogen energy. Important breakthroughs have been made in tackling key core technologies: the Company has developed and mastered a batch of key technologies including the installation of super-giant Francis turbine units for hydropower stations, strongly supporting the construction of major national projects such as the Baihetan Hydropower Station and "Guohe No. 1," and led the approval of the national key project on "high-altitude wind power generation." New quality productive forces are developing rapidly and showing strong momentum: the Yingcheng 300 MW compressed air energy storage project was successfully connected to the grid, the Jixi high-altitude wind energy project successfully generated electricity, the Xiamen 5 GWh energy storage battery production line started construction, the first full-road-domain transportation-energy integration demonstration project on the Zaozhuang-Heze Expressway was implemented, the Qingyang "East Data West Computing" node project was smoothly put into operation, four projects including Gansu Jiuquan were selected as national new energy storage pilot demonstration projects, the Jilin Songyuan green hydrogen-ammonia-methanol project was selected as a national green and low-carbon advanced technology demonstration project, and Green Building Materials and Zhongneng Ruixin were successfully selected as SASAC "Set Sail" enterprises. A batch of new quality productive forces with China Energy Engineering characteristics are emerging rapidly, and the superimposed effects of scientific and technological innovation continue to be released.

Song Hailiang pointed out that at present, the unprecedented major changes in the world in a century are accelerating, the technological revolution and great-power competition are intertwined, and the high-tech field has become the forefront and main battlefield of international competition. Facing new missions and new tasks, as well as the new requirements for building a high-quality development "Four New" China Energy Engineering, the Company's tasks in tackling scientific and technological innovation remain arduous and heavy, and there are still shortcomings and deficiencies in the five dimensions of "height, breadth, depth, thickness, and warmth." It is necessary to fulfill the mission of a central enterprise, benchmark against world-class standards, comprehensively enhance the sense of responsibility, mission, and urgency for scientific and technological innovation, engage in deep thinking, systematic research, and precise policy measures, and continue to invest genuine, painstaking, meticulous, and solid efforts, promoting scientific and technological innovation with a higher stance, stronger responsibility, and greater intensity to achieve systematic major improvements and new results, striving to win the initiative, advantages, and the future in the technological transformation, and making new and greater contributions to building a strong country in science and technology and realizing Chinese-style modernization.

Song Hailiang emphasized that the entire Company must place scientific and technological innovation in a more important position, further emancipate the mind, take proactive action, work earnestly and pragmatically, overcome difficulties, comprehensively enhance scientific and technological innovation capabilities, accelerate the promotion of scientific and technological innovation toward elevating strategic scientific and technological strength, transforming into new quality productive forces, and deeply integrating with industrial innovation, and strive to promote systematic improvement of scientific and technological innovation work and reach a new level, contributing greater traction, acceleration, and value creation to the comprehensive building of a high-quality development "Four New" China Energy Engineering. First, it is necessary to comprehensively serve national strategies and effectively leverage the driving role of scientific and technological innovation. Around strategic planning, major technologies, and major engineering support and guarantee services, build a new energy system, proactively strengthen the principal role of enterprise innovation, undertake major national scientific and technological tasks, integrate into regional innovation patterns, carry out international R&D layouts, accelerate integration into the national innovation system, and make every effort to advance major scientific and technological breakthroughs at all levels and of all types. Second, it is necessary to comprehensively enhance innovation capabilities and build national strategic scientific and technological strength. Deepen the building of original technology sources such as new energy storage, deeply advance the construction of national-level and Company R&D platforms, deeply carry out industry-academia-research cooperation, create industry-leading scientific and technological leading enterprises, and build innovation consortia in key fields. Third, it is necessary to comprehensively build new quality productive forces and vigorously develop strategic emerging industries. Accelerate the construction of compressed air energy storage and green hydrogen-ammonia-methanol new technology demonstration projects, accelerate the approval of new technology demonstration projects such as gravity energy storage, build modern industrial chain leaders around the innovation chain, strengthen strategic emerging industry chains, lead and serve the energy industry chain, and accelerate the application of green and low-carbon technologies and new-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence. Fourth, it is necessary to comprehensively optimize innovation mechanisms and create a profound innovation culture. Further improve the institutional system that is more conducive to original innovation, to the development of strategic emerging industries, and to stimulating talent vitality, continue to increase investment in innovation resources, strengthen the implementation of innovation incentive policies, vigorously promote the spirit of innovation, and continuously stimulate employees' innovation vitality.

At the meeting, the Department of Science and Technology Information and Equipment and the Electric Power Planning and Engineering Institute introduced the new situation and new requirements of scientific and technological innovation work and key technical directions, and units such as China Power Engineering Consulting Group and Gezhouba Group made on-site and written exchanges.

Relevant department and business division heads of the Company headquarters, national survey and design masters and representatives of the Company's innovators, and principal heads and heads in charge of science and technology of 40 affiliated enterprises attended the meeting.