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http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200012/06/eng20001206_57047.html
People's Daily, 2000/12/6
Large Hydropower Plant to Be Build in Yunnan
China is speeding up the preparation for its second largest hydro power
plant in southwest China's Yunnan Provinces along the Lancang River.
The plant's power generation capacity is designed to reach 5.5 million
kilowatts, with the annual power generation output of 23.6 billion
kilowatts, the largest among power plants along the river.
The power plant will be put into operation in 2014, if construction starts
in 2005, with an investment totaling 20 to 30 billion yuan. Discussions
about the project have been going on since last May.
Experts noted that the plant's generating capacity is equal to over 14
million tons of coal, which will greatly reduce the air pollution and
increase the anti-flood capacity.
According to the local government's prediction, the operation of the plant
will meet the energy consumption need of the Yunnan and many other
provinces in the east.
China plans to build several power plants along the Lancang River as an
energy base of the Yunnan Province, which will also improve the water
traffic along the river, linking China with several Southeast Asian
countries including Laos and Thailand.
The Lancang River, originating in the Tangula Mountain in west China, also
runs through the Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.
Yunnan to Become China's No. 1 Hydropower Base
A "10th Five-year Plan Proposal" mapping out Yunnan's future hydropower
generation was lately made known by CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee at a
meeting just closed in Kunming. It is told that Yunnan is to accelerate its
hydropower construction and be built into a large and would-be largest
hydropower base in keeping up with China's economic development.
By experts' estimate, Yunnan has a hydropower potential of around 90
million kilowatts, making 23.2% of China's. Following a decision by the CPC
Yunnan Provincial Committee and Government, precedence will be given to
construction of many large and medium-sized hydropower stations and
large-capability/high-parameter thermal power plants in the way an optimum
rational power generation/supply system is to be formed in the province.
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