China's first green hydrogen pipeline collaborative innovation center – the Inner Mongolia Meng Hydrogen Pipeline Collaborative Innovation Center – was established in Hohhot on April 17.

With the launch of its official operations, a batch of targeted and practical green hydrogen storage and transport technologies will be piloted and tested, enhancing the competitiveness of the region's green hydrogen in major hydrogen-consuming markets such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and East China.

Inner Mongolia's wind and solar resources exceed 100 gigawatts in exploitable capacity, accounting for one-quarter of the national total. This provides outstanding advantages for green hydrogen development.

In recent years, Inner Mongolia has introduced multiple green hydrogen industry policies, built a full-chain policy system, and taken the lead in releasing provincial-level green hydrogen pipeline planning.

Currently, the hydrogen energy industry has entered a critical period, with urgent challenges to overcome in long-distance hydrogen transport, pipeline resistance to hydrogen embrittlement, as well as maintaining acceptable safety standards.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) Inner Mongolia Research Institute is leveraging SJTU's strengths in materials science, energy, intelligent control, and other fields. It has partnered with Inner Mongolia Energy Group and other regional industry leaders, as well as research institutes, to jointly establish the nation's first green hydrogen pipeline collaborative innovation center in Hohhot.

The center focuses on research breakthroughs in pure hydrogen pipeline transport, new pipeline materials, intelligent monitoring, and safety early warning systems.