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In the era of vigorous promotion of new energy vehicles, many car companies have invested in the research of electrification and digitalization. At present, China has a large amount of drag subsidies in the field of pure electric vehicles, but many voices have pointed out that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are also one of the ways to achieve clean energy.

In the field of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle research and development, Japanese and South Korean car companies are in the forefront, and have achieved mass production of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the passenger car field, but there are still some obstacles in infrastructure, cost, storage, transportation and technology. Similarly, some Chinese car companies have begun to pay more and more attention to the development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

During the two sessions of the National people's Congress in 2019, both Chery Automobile and Great Wall Motor proposed to accelerate the development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle industry.

Yin Tongyue, chairman of Chery, submitted to the conference the proposal of "unified planning for upgrading the hydrogen energy industry to the national energy strategic level", hoping to speed up the development of China's hydrogen fuel automobile industry.

Hydrogen fuel is a kind of new energy with zero emission and no pollution, and it is also an important direction of energy diversification. For a long time, the United States, Japan and other countries have raised hydrogen energy planning to the height of national energy strategy, but China still lacks unified planning and layout in hydrogen production, storage and transportation, and there is no perfect testing and inspection institutions to match it. As a result, the development of hydrogen fuel industry has been delayed. To this end, Yin Tongyue hopes that the country will make overall planning and upgrade hydrogen energy to the level of national development strategy. By the national overall planning, the hydrogen energy will be upgraded from the national development focus to the level of the national development strategy, do a good job in the top-level design, list it as the future pillar industry and livelihood projects, and formulate the necessary restraint levers and more detailed standards and regulations to promote the healthy development of the hydrogen energy industry. For example, we can refer to the promotion policy of electric vehicles, increase the subsidy for the research and development of hydrogen energy technology, and promote it through the policies of demonstration application and marketing.

It is understood that Chery has completed the development of a 12-meter fuel cell bus and a fuel cell logistics vehicle, which will soon be put into operation in cities such as Wuhu, and Chery has also developed a fourth-generation fuel cell vehicle.

Wang Fengying, vice chairman and president of Great Wall Motor, also put forward suggestions to promote the comprehensive and balanced development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, believing that the progress of hydrogen energy infrastructure construction, especially the construction of hydrogen filling stations in China is very slow, which has seriously affected the development pace of domestic fuel cell vehicles.

Wang Fengying believes that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are an important development direction of new energy vehicles and an important factor in the sustainable and healthy development of China's new energy vehicles development strategy. Call on the country to urgently strengthen the construction and development of hydrogen energy infrastructure, especially hydrogen filling stations, to promote the rapid development of the industry.

She also suggested that the state should change the form of subsidies for hydrogenation stations and increase subsidies; formulate relevant policies to focus on the research and development of key technologies for hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles, as well as research and development of core technologies such as hydrogen production, hydrogen storage and hydrogenation; integrate high-quality resources, encourage cooperation among various parties, set up a "national team" for the construction and operation of hydrogenation stations, and uniformly plan the infrastructure construction of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in China.

In fact, Great Wall also plans to take the fuel cell car route! Great Wall Motor has earlier announced the completion of a hydrogen energy technology center, with plans to display the first fuel cell model based on its own platform in 2020, the first fuel cell fleet in 2022 and a mature hydrogen fuel cell model in 2025.

At present, China is developing rapidly in pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles, while hydrogen energy, as one of the clean energy, develops relatively slowly and unevenly.

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