Canada and China hold first ministerial energy dialogue

Canada and China have announced the first Canada-China Ministerial Dialogue on Energy, co-chaired by energy officials from both countries via videoconference on November 4 Beijing time / November 3 Ottawa time.

• Wang Hongzhi of China’s National Energy Administration and Tim Hodgson of Natural Resources Canada co-chaired the dialogue to advance energy-sector exchanges and cooperation following leaders’ understandings.
• The sides agreed to deepen cooperation in conventional and renewable energy, civil nuclear energy, and uranium resources, and to encourage enterprises to explore energy trade, technology exchange, investment, and project cooperation; they also agreed to strengthen coordination in multilateral frameworks. The readout says select energy enterprises and Canadian provinces and territories participated.