The Greater Bay Area hydrogen energy comprehensive application pilot city cluster was launched in Guangzhou, with plans to promote 16,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles

China News Service, Guangzhou, September 22 (Reporter Xu Qingqing) The work deployment meeting of the Greater Bay Area hydrogen energy comprehensive application pilot city cluster was held in Guangzhou on the 22nd. It is reported that the urban agglomeration is jointly established by Guangzhou and 11 cities in five provinces including Foshan, Yangjiang, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Wuhan, Hubei, Huangshi, Shiyan, Suizhou, Changsha, Hunan, and Danzhou, Hainan. It also links the three cooperating cities of Shaoguan, Jiangmen, and Zhanjiang in Guangdong and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to carry out external collaboration.

China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines hydrogen energy as one of the six future industries, promoting hydrogen energy from technological breakthroughs to application implementation. In August 2026, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Finance, and National Development and Reform Commission jointly approved the pilot city cluster for comprehensive application of hydrogen energy in the Greater Bay Area, with a pilot period of 4 years.

The reporter learned from this deployment meeting that during the pilot period, the urban agglomeration will promote 16,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, build 100 new hydrogen refueling stations, and coordinate the construction of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao trans-provincial hydrogen corridor, the Guangzhou-Zhanjiang Hydrogen Energy Expressway, the Han-Xiang-10 Hydrogen Energy Corridor, and the Coastal Hydrogen Energy Economic Corridor. Corridor, build a national benchmark cross-city large-scale hydrogen fuel cell vehicle application network, create an internationally leading industrial full-chain hydrogen energy alternative application system, cultivate multiple cutting-edge hydrogen energy innovative application scenarios, and promote the promotion of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and the synergy and mutual promotion of industrial applications.

On the same day, the preparatory meeting of the Guangzhou Hydrogen Energy Urban Cluster Comprehensive Application Promotion Association was held simultaneously. By integrating the industrial chain resources of 14 mainland cities, the promotion will promote the efficient connection of technical resources, market supply and demand, and standards and regulations within the urban agglomeration, promote the in-depth integration of government, industry, academia, and research, and help solve development pain points such as insufficient industrial collaboration, inconsistent standards, and regional barriers.

During the meeting, Guangzhou launched the "Greater Bay Area Hydrogen Vehicle Expressway Toll Preferentiality and Inter-provincial Mutual Recognition Initiative", proposing to promote Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan and other provinces in the urban agglomeration to issue relevant policies based on local actual research, and to provide free highway toll exemptions to hydrogen vehicles that meet the conditions; rely on the construction of national zero-carbon highway transportation corridors to lay out hydrogenation stations, and strive to gradually reduce the terminal hydrogen cost to less than 25 yuan per kilogram.