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dam-l LS: China to build hydropower station in Yunnan
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>>Thursday, August 12 1999 - 14:54
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>> CHINA TO BUILD HYDROPOWER STATION IN 2002
>> IN YUNNAN
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>> KUNMING, Aug 12 Asia Pulse - China will build a large
>> hydropower station on the Lancang River in Yunnan province.
>> The project is to be built jointly by the China National
>> Power Industrial Corporation and the Yunnan provincial
>> government from 2002.
>> Per the plan, the hydropower station will have a designed
>> installed capacity of 4.2 million kilowatts and an annual
>> output of 18.89 billion kilowatt-hours.
>> It will have a 292-metre-high dam and a reservoir with a
>> storage capacity of 15.132 billion cu m of water.
>> It is expected to play a big role in power generation,
>> flood control and irrigation when it goes on stream.
>> (XIC)
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Aviva Imhof
South-East Asia Campaigner
International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley CA 94703 USA
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