City residents left out in the cold ...
By Zhang Xuanchen |
January 13, 2011, Thursday
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ABOUT a million residents in Linzhou, in central China's Henan Province, were left out in the cold after the city shut down a power plant in a bid to meet energy-saving targets.
Furious residents flooded the local government hotline with complaints after it announced on Saturday that heating would be cut for the whole winter.
The government's heating network covers a 200,000-square-meter area of the city and residents pay a one-off fee when the mercury drops below zero.
Last year, the city forced the Youchuang Power Plant to run under capacity, causing frequent blackouts.
This year, the plant has been shut, causing the cut-off in heating supplies.
Schools, hospitals and government departments had to buy electric heaters, and local neighborhood communities are busy returning the heating fees they collected earlier from affected homes, The Beijing News said yesterday.
A government worker surnamed Li said all state employees were ordered by their superiors not to lodge complaints to higher authorities.
Meanwhile, some 300,000 residents have been affected by a breakdown in the central heating system of Chengde City in north China's Hebei Province. Temperatures were nearly minus 20 degrees Celsius at the time.
Workers were still working on the problem, and residents had to rely on air conditioners and stand-alone heaters, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
It is not yet known what caused coal conveyor belts suddenly to stop operation late on Tuesday night at the Guodian Chengde Thermal Power Co Ltd, the only heating supplier in the city, said a spokesman for the city's emergency affairs office.
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