HPT Annex 53 participant – partner in one of the team who captured Grand Prize in the Global Cooling Prize contest

HPT TCP Annex 53 (participant Baolong Wang (Tsinghua University) partners with Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. (leading Chinese heat pump system manufacturer) to capture Grand Prize in the Global Cooling Prize contest. On April 29, Sir Richard Branson announced the Gree/Tsinghua team as co-winners (along with the Daikin group team) of the Global Cooling Prize contest. The contest began in November 2018 and 139 teams submitted detailed applications in August 2019. From these eight finalist teams were selected.