China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) Day at Expo 2020 Dubai in the United Arab Emirates was held both online and offline on Jan 12, 2022.

The event, themed "green, innovation and future", was organized to demonstrate to the world CNNC's capacity in the whole industrial chain of the nuclear industry, through which CNNC and its partners jointly reviewed the past and looked forward to the future.

As the first worldwide promotional event held by the CNNC this year, the gathering was also a high-end platform for CNNC to better respond to climate change and implement China's carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, create more development opportunities and further unleash cooperation potential for global cooperation on nuclear energy.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the event, Gu Jun, president of CNNC, said the firm has accumulated comparative strengths in the whole industrial chain of the nuclear sector, fostered professional competence in the design and building of nuclear power units with varying installed capacity and multiple models, and set an outstanding record in the management of its nuclear power stations over the past decades.

Gu added that CNNC will adhere to a development philosophy that features opening-up, cooperation and mutual benefit, conduct in-depth exchanges with its overseas partners on the research and development of nuclear energy, the application of nuclear technologies, the manufacturing of relevant equipment, the construction of nuclear projects, operation services, capital management and talent cultivation, provide its clients from around the world with comprehensive solutions to their utilization of nuclear energy in its whole life cycle, and contribute efforts toward the achievement of green, low-carbon and sustainable development.

During the ceremony, several subsidiary firms of CNNC, including China Zhongyuan Engineering Corporation, China National Uranium Co., Ltd. and the China Institute of Atomic Energy, held separate promotional activities at the event.

The online version of the event was broadcast live in Chinese, English, Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish.

Shen Yanfeng, vice president of CNNC, presided over the opening ceremony.

Those in attendance at the event included officials and representatives of the Chinese government, relevant organizations, 25 foreign embassies in China and overseas partners of CNNC from 23 countries around the globe.