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China powers in generation capacity

CHINA'S installed power generation capacity has exceeded 900 million kilowatts after a reactor under the second phase of Ling'ao Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Guangdong Province yesterday, the chief of the country's top economic planner said.

Zhang Ping, director of the National Development and Reform Commission, hailed the achievement as "a new stage of development" for China's power industry at a forum held in Beijing on nuclear power development.

"Starting from a weak basis, we have explored a path of healthy development for the country's electricity industry," Zhang told the forum.

According to the NDRC, it took China 38 years to raise its power generating capacity to 100 million KW in 1987 from 1.85 million KW when the new China was founded in 1949.

Before topping the key mark of 900 million KW, China lifted its electricity generating capacity to 500 million KW in 2005.

Zhang said China will continue to transform the electricity industry and also restructure by producing more clean energy.




 

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