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http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200104/12/eng20010412_67504.html

People's Daily, Thursday, April 12, 2001, updated at 07:20(GMT+8)

Business
China Prepares for Gigantic New Power Station

China is busy preparing for another world-class hydroelectric power 
station, second in size only to the mammoth Three Gorges Power Project.

The Xiaowan Hydroelectric Power Station is to be built on the middle 
reaches of the Lancang River, the fifth longest in China.

Construction of the Xiaowan station will start this year, Yunnan Provincial 
Governor Li Jiating announced here recently.

The new power plant will be the third large power project on the Lancang 
(Upper Mekong) River, after the 1.5-million-kw one at Manwan and the 
1.35-million-kw one at Dachaoshan. It will have six generating units with a 
designed capacity of 4.2 million kw.

The major feature of the station will be a concrete hyperbolic arch dam 
that stands 292 meters high, which is equivalent to the height of a 
100-story skyscraper.

The dam, believed to be the highest dam in the world, will be able to hold 
15 billion cubic meters of water, the combined amount of all reservoirs in 
Yunnan, said Kou Wei, general manager of the Lancang River Water Resources 
Development Co. Ltd.

Lancang River, which rises in the Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet 
Plateau, flows for a total of 4,500 kilometers from Tibet to Xishuang Banna 
in Yunnan Province, joins the Mekong River, and then flows into Laos, 
Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries.

China will build six new hydroelectric power stations on the middle and 
lower reaches of the Lancang River this year in addition to the Manwan and 
Dachaoshan power stations. The combined installed capacity of the eight 
power stations will be 15.55 million kw.

The cost of the Xiaowan power station is estimated at 32 billion yuan, the 
largest sum spent on a project of this kind in Yunnan in the past 50 years. 
Tens of thousands of workers will be needed to build roads, bridges and 
other auxiliary projects.

The first generating unit of the project is expected to start operation in 
2010, and the last one will be finished in 2013. By then, its annual power 
output will be 18.9 billion kwh, half of which will be transmitted to 
Guangdong and other provinces in coastal areas.

Xiaowan station is an important part of China's strategy of transmitting 
electricity from resources-rich western areas to power-shortage Shanghai 
Municipality, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other eastern provinces.

Yunnan this year will provide 900,000 kwh of electricity to Guangdong 
Province. The figure is to climb to eight million kwh in 15 years.





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