On July 20, 2017, Deng Fanhua, deputy consul general in San Francisco, attended the opening ceremony of the North American Member Center of the Chinese Electromechanical Society and a seminar on green energy and power grid modernization technology in Santa Clara. Zheng Baosen, chairman of the China Electromechanical Society, Wang Zhiwei, dean of the State Grid American Research Institute, and representatives from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, and other American universities, scientific research institutions, and scientific and technological communities participated in the event.

Deputy Consul General Deng unveiled the establishment of the North American Member Center of the China Electromechanical Society

In his speech, Deputy Consul General Deng pointed out: The China Institute of Electrical Engineering is an internationally renowned academic group that has long promoted the prosperity and development of China ’s electrical engineering science and technology. "Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation" has made positive contributions. At the same time, the pace of international cooperation of the society has been accelerating, and European membership centers and North American membership centers have been established in Germany and the United States. The establishment of these new platforms and new channels will definitely play an important role in strengthening China's exchanges and cooperation in the field of electrical engineering technology in Europe and America. Deputy Consul General Deng emphasized that the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco will actively implement the request made by President Xi Jinping when he met with California Governor Brown last month, support Chinese technology companies and organizations in carrying out various forms of cooperation with the Silicon Valley area, and vigorously promote the Cooperation in the fields of scientific and technological innovation and green development has transformed scientific and technological innovation cooperation in the green energy field into a new bright spot in Sino-US local exchanges and cooperation, injecting more positive energy into the healthy and stable development of Sino-US relations.

Deputy Consul General Deng took a group photo with some of the guests