Shanxi's Lyuliang emerges as new hydrogen energy hub

Lyuliang city in Shanxi province is ramping up its energy revolution and promoting the development of new quality productive forces in hydrogen energy, its mayor said.

"Under the guidance of the national energy security strategy, the city's hydrogen energy industry has entered a new stage of orderly breakthroughs," Mayor Xiong Yizhi said in a recent interview with China Daily.

Hydrogen energy, recognized globally as one of the cleanest forms of energy, is a zero-carbon resource and a crucial component of the future national energy system. It represents an important move in efforts to develop new quality productive forces.

In recent years, Lyuliang has regarded the hydrogen energy industry as a key driver of high-quality development, placing innovation-driven strategies at the core of its overall transformation. The city is actively advancing its carbon peaking goals and accelerating its shift toward green production and lifestyles.

"As a typical resource-based city, Lyuliang has a significant cost advantage in developing the hydrogen energy industry," Xiong said. "We are positioning ourselves within the national and provincial development framework and leading high-quality development through high-level planning."

By 2035, Lyuliang aims to reach a new level of economic strength, basically achieve socialist modernization in line with national and provincial progress, complete its resource-based economic transformation and provide a "Lyuliang Solution" for other regions facing similar challenges, the mayor said.