**Speech at the 21st Fusion Energy Conference**

**by Mr. Kang Rixin, President of CNNC**

**October 16, 2006**

**Mr. Chairman, all delegates and friends, Ladies and Gentlemen:**

First of all, on behalf of China National Nuclear Corporation, I would
like to express my warm congratulations on the successful opening of the
21st Fusion Energy Conference in Chengdu, China and my heartfelt welcome
to Mr. Chairman, all delegates and friends.

As one of the main solutions to permanent clean energy in the future,
nuclear fusion energy is of great significance to sustainable
development of energy sources for humanity. In the past half a century,
numerous scientists, including experts here, have contributed their
wisdom for it. Up to now, research on nuclear fusion has achieved
important progresses and received world-wide attention. The 21st Nuclear
Fusion Conference will further facilitate international exchanges on
fusion research and will surely promote the development of fusion
research.

As a large state-owned enterprise directly controlled by the Chinese
central government, CNNC has become the main body to use nuclear energy
for peaceful purposes in China and is playing a major role in the
development of China\'s nuclear power industry. CNNC has a complete
nuclear science, technology and industry system, covering uranium
geology, uranium mining and milling, nuclear power generation, nuclear
fuel manufacturing, spent fuel reprocessing, basic nuclear research,
scientific research and design, nuclear instrument manufacturing,
development of non-power civilian nuclear technologies and so on. Now
CNNC is the main investor and nuclear fuel supplier of nuclear power
plants under construction and operation on the Chinese Mainland.

Based on the Government\'s three-step strategy for nuclear energy
development, namely \"thermal reactor - fast reactor - fusion reactor\",
CNNC is actively developing advanced nuclear energy systems including
fast reactor and fusion reactor, while steadily expanding the nuclear
power industry.

The 65 MWt China's Experimental Fast Reactor is now at installation
phase and will be finished and go critical in June, 2009, and undergo a
trial power generation in June, 2010.

CNNC has always been engaged in research on front-edge physical
experiments and playing a major role in China\'s controlled nuclear
fusion technology research. On September 21, 1984, China\'s first
experimental facility for controlled thermonuclear fusion research
HL-1was built up in the Southwest Institute of Physics of CNNC and it
was designed and built by China on its own. On December 2, 2002,
China\'s new-generation controlled nuclear fusion research facility,
HL-2A, was completed in the institute. CNNC has taken an active part in
international cooperation on ITER research. We believe that, with its
advantages accumulated over these years in human resources,
technologies, and experimental facilities, CNNC will play a vital role
in the ITER program.

At present, we are making great efforts to develop China\'s fusion
energy in accordance with the development strategy from experimental
core simulation facility through engineering test reactor and
demonstration fusion reactor to commercial fusion reactor.

We will carry out broad cooperation and exchanges with science and
technology workers throughout the world engaged in peaceful use of
nuclear energy to jointly promote the development of peaceful nuclear
energy utilization for the benefit of human beings.

Wish the conference a great success. Thank you.