Mr. Chadchart Sittipunt, Governor of Bangkok, welcomed the delegation of the Thai-Chinese and Asian Economic Trade Association and senior executives of Chinese state-owned enterprises in clean energy to strengthen relations and discuss and exchange cooperation between each other in the areas of the environment and clean energy.

        The Governor of Bangkok said that we welcome you all and thank you for taking the time to visit Bangkok today. Bangkok and China have good relations and cooperation between the two countries is important. Moreover, China is also a good example in matters of environmental management and clean energy, which will be discussed and exchanged for further cooperation.

In this regard, Mr. Pornphrom Vikitsreth, Advisor to the Governor of Bangkok and the first Chief Sustainability Officer of the BMA gave a briefing on the issue of PM2.5 dust in the Bangkok area. For example, the reason for the high dust levels at the beginning and end of the year consists of various factors, including dust that originates in the Bangkok area, weather conditions, and burning points around the Bangkok area including measures taken by Bangkok such as notification. through various channels of Bangkok, monitoring and monitoring, health protection, etc.

Then, the Governor of Bangkok summarized Bangkok’s goals for the environment and clean energy which may be projects that can be coordinated in the future, including: 1. Promoting the use of EV cars in Bangkok: Currently, Bangkok has a project to change 2,000 garbage vehicles from gasoline systems to EV systems, which is currently in the procurement process, 2. Adding electric vehicle charging points in the Bangkok area: Currently, proposals are open for installing 40 electric vehicle charging points, 3. Consideration of building a waste incineration plant to produce electricity: It is in the process of finding investors and operators, 4. Making Bangkok a solar cell city: Because the Bangkok area is sunny all year. We have a project to install solar cells in every department in Bangkok and, 5. Consideration of wind power generation projects: Bangkok has a seaside area of approximately 5 kilometers. In this regard, the Governor of Bangkok has assigned Mr. Torsak Chotimongkol, Chairman of Advisor to the Governor of Bangkok to be the main co-ordinator to ensure joint operations are smooth and concrete.