This conference is a 2026 APEC “China Year” ministerial institutional event in the energy sector. With the theme of “Jointly Building an Inclusive, Innovative, and Collaborative Asia-Pacific Energy Community”, this conference focuses on three priority directions: one is high-quality energy inclusion, building a safe, reliable, adequate, resilient, inclusive, sustainable, and affordable high-quality energy system, and promoting high-quality energy development on the basis of strengthening the basic energy coverage of APEC economies; the second is the two-way empowerment of artificial intelligence and energy, which not only emphasizes the support and guarantee of the energy system for computing power infrastructure, but also enhances artificial intelligence Energy system efficiency and the enabling value of enhancing system resilience to achieve mutual promotion and co-progress in the digital economy and energy transformation; the third is collaborative governance of energy in the Asia-Pacific region, coordinating energy security and green and low-carbon transformation, deepening collaboration in fields such as oil and gas channels, emergency reserves, and cross-border power mutual assistance, taking into account differences in the development stages and resource endowments of various economies, and simultaneously promoting intellectual capacity building collaboration to jointly address multiple challenges such as market fluctuations, supply chain risks and extreme weather.

This conference is a 2026 APEC “China Year” ministerial institutional event in the energy sector. With the theme of “Jointly Building an Inclusive, Innovative, and Collaborative Asia-Pacific Energy Community”, this conference focuses on three priority directions: one is high-quality energy inclusion, building a safe, reliable, adequate, resilient, inclusive, sustainable, and affordable high-quality energy system, and promoting high-quality energy development on the basis of strengthening the basic energy coverage of APEC economies; the second is the two-way empowerment of artificial intelligence and energy, which not only emphasizes the support and guarantee of the energy system for computing power infrastructure, but also enhances artificial intelligence Energy system efficiency and the enabling value of enhancing system resilience to achieve mutual promotion and co-progress in the digital economy and energy transformation; the third is collaborative governance of energy in the Asia-Pacific region, coordinating energy security and green and low-carbon transformation, deepening collaboration in fields such as oil and gas channels, emergency reserves, and cross-border power mutual assistance, taking into account differences in the development stages and resource endowments of various economies, and simultaneously promoting intellectual capacity building collaboration to jointly address multiple challenges such as market fluctuations, supply chain risks and extreme weather.