Zhangjiagang powered up with hydrogen. East China city using clean energy to support public transport

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A view of a workshop of Jiangsu Guofu Hydrogen Energy Equipment Co Ltd in Zhangjiagang, Suzhou, Jiangsu province, in May 2024. LANG CONGLIU

Zhangjiagang powered up with hydrogen
East China city using clean energy to support public transport

CHENG YU & LIU WEIFENG | China Daily | 2025-06-27

As a bus glides away from a station in Zhangjiagang, Suzhou, eastern China's Jiangsu province, a faint wisp of steam rises from its tailpipe and vanishes into the cool morning air. There's no roar, no rumble, just the silent whoosh of progress.

Such a scene is an everyday life phenomenon in Zhangjiagang, where hydrogen-powered public transport has become the new normal. Now, one in every 10 city buses in Zhangjiagang runs on hydrogen.

For this compact port city nestled along the Yangtze River, once synonymous with steel mills and freight yards, the quiet hum of hydrogen buses signals an emerging industrial transformation — one not only powered by coal or oil, but by hydrogen, the lightest and most abundant element in the universe...snip

Zhangjiagang's hydrogen ambitions stretch back to 2018, long before the chemical element became a buzzword in China's clean-energy playbook. Recognizing the looming need to decarbonize and armed with a deep reservoir of hydrogen byproducts from its local chemical and steel plants, the city made an early gambit on hydrogen as the fuel of the future.

That prescient foresight is now bearing fruit. Today, more than 40 hydrogen-related companies operate within the city. The industry's annual output has skyrocketed from 500 million yuan ($69.7 million) in 2017 to over 10 billion yuan in just a few years. From a fledgling experiment to a thriving ecosystem, Zhangjiagang is fast becoming one of China's most complete hydrogen clusters — and its ambitions are only accelerating...more
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1. And meanwhile Trump gets rid of subsidies for wind and solar in

the USA.

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2. Hydrogen in China is made from coal. Thus, no matter what the advertising says, this is a filthy city.