In Beijing, Amb. Rakhmanin had a meeting with the Deputy Administrator of the National Energy Administration of China (NEA) Mr. Wu Yin and NEA Engineer General Mr. Wu Guihui.

The ways of strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation between the Energy Charter and China were thoroughly discussed with Mr. Wu Yin, the Head of the Chinese delegation at the 23rd Meeting of the Energy Charter Conference last November in Warsaw, Poland. Amb. Rakhmanin briefed Mr. Wu Yin and Mr. Wu Guihui on the next steps in the Energy Charter modernisation process.

During his stay in Beijing, the Deputy Secretary General had separate meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the management of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Research Commission, with the Secretary General of the China Industrial Overseas Development and Planning Association. Amb. Rakhmanin also visited the Institute of World Economics and Politics, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the headquarters of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

On 13 December the Deputy Secretary General participated in the High-Level Conference on Cooperation on Energy Security, organised in Beijing by the Europe-China Clean Energy Centre with the support of NEA, the Ministry of Commerce of China and the Delegation of the European Union in China.