Based on the rapid development of the hydrogen energy industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Foshan Green Development and Innovation Research Institute settled in the Foshan High-tech Zone in early 2018.

The institute undertakes the construction and operation of the national technology standard innovation base (hydrogen energy), and has achieved results in standard innovation as well as technology research and development.

At the end of 2020, the institute was awarded status as a Foshan High-tech Zone High-tech Industrialization Entrepreneurship Team by virtue of its R&D and Industrialization of Fuel Cell Hydrogen Quality Rapid Tester project, and received 2 million yuan in guiding funds. 

The hydrogen quality detector developed by the team can rate hydrogen quality in seconds. 

As of December last year, Guangdong had built 25 hydrogen refueling stations, and became the only province in the country that has built more than 20 hydrogen refueling stations, of which 16 are in Foshan.