The first joint bilateral conference of the Sino-US Clean Energy Research Center and Advanced Coal Technology Consortium (Sino-US CERC-ACTC) was held in Tsinghua University on Mar. 1st and 2nd. Twenty-nine union units from China and the U.S. participated in the meeting, and the two sides exchanged their opinion on nine collaborative tasks, such as clean coal power generation, clean coal conversion, CO2 capture before combustion, CO2 post-combustion capture, CO2 storage, and CO2 application,etc. Shanghai Jiao Tong University is an important member of the Chinese union units, and the project leader Prof. Zhang Zhongxiao of our school was invited to participate in this meeting to discuss cooperation issues like task docking and mutual communication. In the next five years, Shanghai Jiao Tong University will carry out research work in international cooperation projects on coal gasification, ultra-supercritical power generation, etc. This meeting marked the official launch of the Sino-US CERC-ACTC program.

The following is the introduction of the Sino-US Clean Energy Research Centre.

The Sino-US Clean Energy Research Centre, co-founded by leaders of the two countries when the American President Barack Obama visited China in 2009, is aimed at promoting bilateral cooperation on clean energy to cope with challenges brought by energy shortage, environmental protection, and climate change. January 18th of this year, along with the occasion of President Hu Jintao's visiting the United States, Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang, the National Energy Secretary Zhang Guobao, and Steven Chu, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, held the opening ceremony of the Sino-US CERC in Washington together. The center also started joint research projects in three priority areas, namely clean coal, clean cars and energy-efficient technologies with grand research teams respectively. In the next five years, the two sides will invest 150 million U.S. dollars to support joint research activities of the center. The Advanced Coal Technology Consortium(ACTC) will focus its research work on clean coal technology (including carbon capture and sequestration). Its research tasks rangs from clean coal power generation, conversion, the new low-cost carbon capture, to geological storage technology, and application research.