Recently, the “Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS Initiative (CEM CCUS Initiative)” web conference was successfully held. The theme of the meeting was "China Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Technology Progress". Professor Wei Yi-Ming, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, attended and was invited to make a report on behalf of China, and was responsible for organizing all academic reports of the conference. About 200 delegates from more than 30 countries including China, the United States, Canada and Australia attended the meeting. They came from international organizations such as Battelle, Environmental Defense Fund, government agencies such as the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, the United States Department of Energy, and Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, etc.

　　At the opening ceremony of the meeting, Juho, the coordinator of the Secretariat of the Clean Energy Ministerial Conference, introduced the development of the "CEM CCUS Initiative", and Director Zhang Xian of the China Agenda 21 Management Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology introduced the development status of CCUS in China as a whole.

　　The three academic reports for this meeting were all from Beijing Institute of Technology, and Professor Wei Yi-Ming, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP-BIT) of Beijing Institute of Technology, represented the overall group of China CCUS development roadmap and systematically introduced China's CCUS development roadmap (2019 version), and gave policy recommendations that are adaptable to China; Professor Liu Lancui, a professor at Beijing Normal University and a visiting researcher at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research of Beijing Institute of Technology, introduced the cooperation achievement with CEEP-BIT CCUS “optimizing the layout of CCUS and the layout plan of China's CCUS technology under achieving the global 2℃ temperature control goal”; Kang Jianing, a researcher of CEEP-BIT at Beijing Institute of Technology, shared the latest research results “China Electricity Industry CCUS Technology Outlook” and proposed a corresponding four-stage development strategy. In the discussion, foreign scholars highly praised the research results of the three reports, raised issues for in-depth discussion, and expressed strong interest in extensive cooperation in the field of CCUs in the future.

　　It is reported that the Clean Energy Ministerial conference (CEM), established in 2010, is a high-level global forum composed of energy ministers from the world's major economies. It aims to promote policies and projects on clean energy technology, share lessons learned and best practices, and encourage the transformation to a global clean energy economy. This CCUS online conference aims to build a cooperation platform for Chinese and foreign CCUS experts, exchange the development and trends of Chinese CCUS technology, and promote the development of CCUS in China and the world.