Beijing Gas Authority, October 26, held in Tokyo, Japan, the International Gas Union Chairman of the election, on behalf of the Chinese candidate Beijing Holding Group Co., Ltd. Deputy General Manager, Beijing Gas Group Chairman Ms. Li Yalan in the first round of voting in absolute Advantage of winning, elected 2021 - 2024 term chairman, Beijing at the same time won the 2924 World Gas Conference in the right to host.
IGU is the world's most authoritative non-profit international organizations, from 92 countries and regions, 164 government departments, industry associations and enterprises, representing 97% of the global natural gas production and consumption market.
IGU organizes a World Gas Conference, an International LNG Congress and an International Gas Technology Conference every three years, and the next World Gas Conference will be held in Washington, DC, June 25-18, 2018. The next The International LNG Congress (LNG19) will be held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Hall from April 1-5, 2019.
The Chinese team was elected by Dr. Li Yalan, Dr. Chen Xinhua and Dr. Gao Zhikai, who won the team with the Canadian team and the Egyptian-Oman team, which was first elected by the Chinese organization with an 86-year-old international organization leader. To participate in a major breakthrough in global energy governance.Li Yalan became the first female president of the organization's history.
China's elected IGU chairman is the implementation of the General Secretary of the "active participation in global governance is China's energy work and international standards, to enhance China's voice in the international energy affairs, the key to the right of the instructions" is also a manifestation to the party's nineteenth Gift.
The campaign has been supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban and Rural Construction, the National Energy Administration, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other national ministries and the Beijing Municipal Government, and has received strong support from the Chinese gas industry and the International Energy Agency (IEA) Organizations and influential countries and regions in the international support.