The 2nd Annual China Green Transport Summit 2009

The 2nd annual China Green Transport Summit 2009 given under the auspices of China Automobile Industry Association Market Trade Committee and China Association of Automotive Manufactures Vehicle Engine Branch and organized by Business Innovation Partner was convoked successfully at Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong Beijing, China from May 20th to 22nd, 2009.

Joachim Rosenberg  President of Volvo Asian region

With the hot-point problems like the scarcity of international petroleum resource and the air pollution caused by automobile exhaust attracting concerning from automobile industry and other related parties, the technology development of environment-friendly automobile industry is facing a unprecedented opportunity. As the only one international summit concerning this topic, base on the success on first annual China Green Transport Summit 2008, the second annual summit 2009 extended it's topic on the "future vehicle expectation" exploring the possibility and potential in the application of new environment-friendly technology for future automobile industry.

 Dr. Peng Lixin from Cummins Engine Company

More than 200 professional representatives from government supported institutions including Ministry of Science and Technology, P.R. China; State Environmental Protection Administration; CAAM Specialist Committee and related full vehicle and accessory manufacturing companies like Volkswagen, Volvo, SAIC, Renault and Bosch attended this summit. The summit was started with an ardent atmosphere and then reached a high tide with the professional and brilliant speeches about different fields given by around 30 representatives. Firstly, the secretary-general of CAAM Specialist Committee Mr. Boshun Zhang gave the welcome address. Then the chief of the atmosphere departmentalism, pollution protection department of State Environmental Protection Administration, Mr. Hongyan Ren and other representatives from government supported institutions gave presentations on the "Automobile Pollution Control by Government" and "The Current Status China Auto Industry and Oriented Policy in the Future" as such to start the speech part of this summit. Later, the China CEO of Volvo, Mr Alexander Klose; Dr. Peter Schulenberg, the Head of Volkswagen Research Lab China; Mr Wang Jing from Technical Economical Department System, Technical Center of SAIC and Mr LIN Hua, the Beijing Chief Representative of Renault gave the brilliant speeches and analysis about "Environmental Care: The Core Value of Volvo Cars"; "Sustainable Development for Future Powertrain Technologies by Volkswagen"; "SAIC R&D of Self-owned Brand Car" and "Zero Emission Electric Vehicles for Suburban Mobility" respectively to expatiate their own full car environment-friendly technologies and ethics.

The summit was pushed to a new high by the speech given by the president of Volvo (China) Investment and Volvo Group Asia Truck Operations Mr. Joachim Rosenberg. He talks about The Future Business Prospects of Volvo's Hybride Powertrain Technology. Mr. Zhou Liang, the general manager of Nanjing IVECO, his speech regarding Solution of Sustainable Mobility attracted much attention by the attendees. The most popular section was the pannel discussion directed by Dr. Peng Lixin, Technical Director of China Engineering of Cummins. The topic 'EGR or SCR, Which One Is More Acceptable for Chinese Market' received extensive participation. At the same time, some representatives from engine manufacturing companies such as Hisashi Akagawa from PT Product Development of Nissan Diesel, Mr. Rudolf Maier from Bosch Automotive Diesel Systems Co., Ltd., Mr. FU Jun from Geely Holding Group and the chief engineer of Shanghai Hino Engine, Mr. SUN Qi also introduced their engine technology respectively. Their topics concerned "Low Emission System for Japanese Market", "Advanced Green Diesel Technology-A Contribution to Chinese Environmental and Energy-saving Targets", "Strongly Promoting Hybrid Electric Auto with Independent Technology" and "The Development and Application of HINO-EGR in Heavy Duty Engines". During the whole procedure of the annual summit, all the representatives had enjoyable communications discussing about the recently developed environment-friendly automobile technologies and explored the development trend in the future.

This annual summit lowered the curtain breezily at May 22nd. All the related parties satisfied with the gains and expressed cordial expectations for the next annual in the future.

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