Xinjiang Ranks 1st in China's Installed Capacity of Wind Force Power GenerationBy the end of 2000, Xinjiang's installed capacity of wind force power generation had ranked first in the country to reach 73,000 kw, taking up 21.1 percent of the national total, according to news from relevant department of Xinjiang.In 1989, the Daban No.1 Wind Power Station, the first of its kind in China and the largest in Asia at that time, was set up in Xinjiang. Over the past 11 years, the Daban No.2 Wind Power Station and the Burqin Wind Power Station have also been built in the autonomous region. The Xinjiang Wind Power Co. fulfilled the task of developing 600-kw homemade wind mills, a technical problem to be tackled set by the Ministry of Science and Technology for the Ninth Five-year Plan, which had been checked and accepted by said ministry and the Science and Technology Commission of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. With the domestic production rate of this machine reaching 96 percent, the company has held an important position in the country's wind mill manufacturing industry. By PD Online staff member Deng Gang |
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