GBA offers a bright prospect for developing hydrogen energy: President and CEO of Air Liquide (China)

“We're quite excited to see that in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) not only in the future we will continue to benefit from the infrastructure and the great positioning of Guangdong, and the spirit of entrepreneurship of Guangdong but also new focus on the high-tech manufacturing and semiconductors, expansion of petrochemical and health care,” said Nicolas Poirot President & CEO, Air Liquide (China) Holding Co., Ltd., when sharing with GDToday at the 2022 Global Investment Promotion Conference for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) on December 21. 

As China gradually optimizes its COVID-19 prevention and control measures, more and more foreign companies are now looking forward to the future in order to invest on infrastructure here. Air Liquide is one of them. “Apart from that on the hydrogen energy, we’re investing here in Guangdong as we speak. GBA is very promising for hydrogen and green hydrogen as one of the means to develop future mobility, cleaner mobility in Guangdong,” he said. 

During the Conference, he and 15 others were appointed as Guangdong’s second batch of global investment consultants. 

With regards to the Conference, he believed that it was a great example, “We can share the various challenges that we may face and the government is trying to help us, to support or to clarify. What makes me confident is the type of dialogue we are having today with the governor.” 

Looking into the future, he said that in the Greater Bay Area, Air Liquide is again going to invest in both semiconductors industry around Shenzhen especially and petrochemical industry on the coast

As a French-headquartered Fortune Global 500 Company, Air Liquide is involved in hydrogen, an energy vector for the future. Currently, in Guangdong, hydrogen can be used for heavy vehicles, commercial vehicles, trucks and smaller trucks going into the city.