January 2011, the Chinese trade delegation trip to visit the United States, China and the U.S. reached a new field of energy cooperation has become the focus of the outside world.
Here, the two countries signed a number of government and business agreements, totaling over 230 billion dollars, of which only the field of clean energy to over 20 billion U.S. dollars, covering nuclear power, wind power, glue stick solar energy, hydropower, smart grid and other fields.
"Sino-US cooperation in space for a huge new energy and in promoting their economic development and improving the environment are of great benefit." Recently, the China Renewable Energy Society, Vice Chairman Zhao Yuwen, told reporters that the new renewable energy is the world's attention Focus is the key to social transformation, the two sides should jointly promote the development of this market. Zhao Yuwen participated in the second seglue gun ssion of the US-China Clean Energy Forum pragmatic cooperation strategy, which is the Chinese trade delegation visit to the important part.
"In the new energy field, the cooperation of the two sides have started from the framework agreement into concrete projects." Xiamen University, Center for Energy Economics Research, said to this reporter Lin Boqiang, signed a series of specific projects, marking a new Sino-US energy cooperation, officially entered a substantive areas.
However, U.S. optimistic about prospects for cooperation in the field of new energy at the same time, it is undeniable that in this strategic area of China and the U.S. is also a direct competitor. As the world's two largest energy consumer in the new global energy market to seek the right to speak, is for the two countries are of great strategic significance.
Recently, the Shanghai Institute of International Research Associate at the Hongyuan author said, "we need to clearly understand that, with the U.S. government to China as the strongest economic competitors, with China's growing lead in the new energy world Sino-US cooperation in the field of new energy potential may be limited, both the future of new energy may be new areas of competition and conflict "," United States will not tolerate a Chinese leader in the new energy revolution in the world, it is bound from a strategic, trade and technical standards, etc. New energy development in China to contain. "
The new U.S. energy strategy, will eventually enter the China market in which the new U.S. energy companies one by one reflects upon the reality. New Sino-US energy cooperation in the curtain about to begin, before it had penetrated the Chinese market, U.S. giant FirstSolar photovoltaic body, we can see it in the Chinese market ambitions and frustrations.
New energy behind the big one.
Sino-US energy cooperation signed a new big single, a background can not be ignored is that in October 2010, the U.S. government has launched a clean energy industry for the Chinese anti-monopoly investigation of trade 301.
At that time, the United Steelworkers, said the Chinese government for its wind, solar, battery and fuel-efficient cars and other products an unfair support to lead the United States related business interests are jeopardized, the U.S. trade deficit increased, the United States in such reduced employment opportunities for the industry.
United Steelworkers of America cited China's "violations" crimes include "export restrictions, discrimination against foreign companies," and "technology transfer, imports of goods required to subsidize the domestic companies," and so on. The U.S. side also said that the Chinese government since 2007 to implement a number of photovoltaic industry support policies, the Chinese government back to the battery manufacturers provide a very wide range of support, including subsidies, tax breaks, preferential loans, land and other subsidies.
Clearly, as the growing economic power of China, a side effect is that trade disputes are increasing. Zhong Shan, Vice Minister of Commerce in 2011, held in the recent national conference on trade promotion, said full-year 2010, China experienced trade friction 64 cases, involving about 70 billion U.S. dollars.
The large-scale commercial procurement, international trade disputes may be regarded as a buffer.