Eight Power Stations to be Built on Lancang River

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Eight Power Stations to be Built on Lancang River

China will build eight hydroelectric power stations at the middle and lower reaches of the Lancang River in southwest China, the fifth longest in the country.

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China will build eight hydroelectric power stations at the middle and lower reaches of the Lancang River in southwest China, the fifth longest in the country.

The total installed capacity of the power plants will reach 15. 55 million kw, according to a news conference held by China State Power Corporation and Yunnan Provincial Government in the provincial capital of Kunming Friday.

The eight hydroelectric power stations, with Xiaowan and Nuozhadu as the key, will generate 74.1 billion kilowatt-hours annually.

At present, the Manwan Hydroelectric Power Station, with an installed capacity of 1.25 million kw, has been built. The first generating unit of the 1.35-million-kw Dachaoshan power plant has gone into operation.

And the Xiaowan Hydroelectric Power Station is to be built on the middle reaches of the river soon. Preparations for other power plants are well underway.

The 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.

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