China and Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Dongmei Chen is Principal Fellow in the Oil and Gas Department at KAPSARC, Saudi Arabia. Her research focuses on China’s overseas energy investment, energy trade, regional energy cooperation, and supply chain integration. With over 30 years of experience in energy and climate policy, she is dedicated to advancing the understanding of China’s energy economic relations with the GCC region and the global community.Fuqiang Yang is Senior Advisor of the Climate Change and Energy Transition Program (CCETP) at the Institute of Energy at Peking University, China. As an expert on climate change and energy, he has worked on China’s sustainable energy strategy and policy for more than four decades and researched extensively on energy savings in building, industrial, and transportation sectors, low-carbon cities, electricity, and renewable energy, as well as climate change.Lei Yang is Research Professor, Deputy Dean of the Institute of Energy, and Deputy Dean of the Institute of Carbon Neutrality at Peking University, China. He is a member of Global Sustainable Energy Education Council at Columbia University, USA. He served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency, France, from 2016 to 2019 and Director and Deputy Director General of the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration of China since 2002.Majed Alsuwailem is Senior Fellow in the Oil and Gas Department at KAPSARC, Saudi Arabia specializing in geoeconomics, natural resource governance, and sustainable energy policy. He holds multiple engineering and economic degrees from the University of Tulsa, USA; Texas A&M University, USA; IFP School, France; and Purdue University, USA. His recent research interests are highly pertinent to the evolving energy landscape. These include the economics of geothermal energy, China’s energy strategy, and phantom oil.

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributors ForewordPrologueAcknowledgmentChapter 1: Reframing China-GCC Energy Economic RelationsDongmei CHEN, Fuqiang YANGChapter 2: China-GCC Trade and Investment InterconnectionsTao MA, Philipp Galkin, Majid AlmoneefChapter 3: China and GCC: Prospects for Upstream/Midstream Oil and Gas CooperationColin Ward, Majed Alsuwailem, Lining WANG, Kailei LIU Chapter 4: Advancing the China-GCC Strategic Partnership in the Refining and Petrochemical IndustriesAbdulwahab Al-Sadoun, Guanglian PANG, Shuang WANGChapter 5: China and GCC: Progress in Industrial Capacity CooperationPhilipp Galkin, Jing SONGChapter 6: Infrastructure Cooperation Between China and the GCCXia SUN, Nora N. NezamuddinChapter 7: Potential for China-GCC Cooperation Through the Lens of the Circular Carbon EconomyMari Luomi, Xi LIANG, Fatih YilmazChapter 8: China - GCC Cooperation: Trends in Sustainable Financing and Transition InvestmentPeiyuan GUO, Claudia BelahmidiChapter 9: China-GCC Collaboration on Renewable Energy Supply Chain, Haiyan QIN, Li-Chen Sim, Steven GriffithsChapter 10: Prospects in China-GCC Energy Efficiency CooperationDongmei CHEN, Mohammad Aldubyan, Hong ZHUChapter 11: China and GCC: Prospect of Globalizing Hydrogen MarketsRobin Mills, Maryam Salman, Min WANG, Jiangpeng FENGChapter 12: Challenges and Opportunities in CCUS: Synergizing Efforts in China and GCC CountriesXiaoliang YANG; Abdullah Alkhedhair; Abdullah AlabdulyChapter 13: China-GCC Cooperation on Nuclear EnergyJie ZHOU, Dongmei CHEN, Noura MansouriChapter 14: Strategic Partnerships Between China and the GCC States on Geothermal DevelopmentZhenqian CHEN, Majed Alsuwailem, Wenxin LIChapter 15: Potential for China-GCC Collaboration on Critical MineralsDongmei CHEN, Jianping GEChapter 16: Innovative Digital Energy Trajectories and Benefits: China-GCC Partnership for a Sustainable FutureSulayman Al-Qudsi, Shaikha Al-Fulaij, Weiquan WANG