The Fifth Coordination Meeting of Beijing Project was convened on 18 May in Tsinghua University. The representatives from Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, CICETE, Beijing Public Transport Company, Sinohytec Company, the Tsinghua University, DC, BALLARD, BP, and PMO participated in the meeting. The main purposes of the meeting focused on discussing the installation of Beijing hydrogen refueling station and workshop, vehicle certification, pre-acceptance, spare parts, data collection system and operator training etc.

      Sinohytec and BP companies respectively introduced the hydrogen refueling station schedule, especially explained the primary problems and difficultness. DC Company also brought forward the suggestions for hydrogen quality. The representative from Beijing Public Transport Company described the workshop construction and guaranteed the complement on due time. Beijing Public Transport Company, CICETE and DC exchanged ideas about vehicle certification, pre-acceptance and spare parts. As a result, tri-partite representatives agreed that Beijing would organize a delegation go to Germany to take pre-acceptance for three FCBs together on 4-8 July, as well as DC would supply the related describable documents and vehicle test reports at that time. Regarding spare parts agreement, a draft would be prepared by Ballard and signed by Ballard, CICETE and Beijing Public Transport Company as soon as possible.

      On the meeting, DC project manager gave a brief description of the demonstration for DC Citaro in Europe in the last two years. According to the collected data, Citaro showed good capability in the program. He also illuminated Beijing FCBs process in Germany factory: the first bus had been tested on 12 May with satisfying result; the other two buses were following the schedule. On 19 May, DC and BP representatives visited Aerospace 101 Institute and discussed hydrogen filling equipments and quality with the technicians.

      It was a successful meeting. The representatives deeply exchanged ideas with each other on the meeting, as well as they adjusted some arrangements depending on current solution. This meeting arranged tasks in next stage and improved the project implementation.