A theme salon to discuss the use of geothermal energy was held in Beijing on Mar 11. The salon, organized by the program Old Yang's Reception Room and Global Times Research Center, sought suggestions from experts and enterprises about the use of environment-friendly sources of energy, especially geothermal energy, in an effort to help China's Blue Sky Protection Campaign, which aims at improving the country's air quality.

According to Cao Yaofeng, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who is also the director of the steering committee of a national-level technology incubator and promotion platform in the field of geothermal energy: "Geothermal energy plays an important role in environmental protection and energy conservation, but we have not attached enough importance to it."