Nationwide Electric Network to Be Completed By 2005During the Tenth Five-year Plan period, the State Power Corporation will push forward the construction of the project for "power transmission from west to east" by three channels of north, central, and south and the mutual power supply from north to south. In this way it aims at forming a nationwide electric network with the exception of Tibet Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Hainan Province as reported from the 2001 Work Conference of the State Power Corporation, thereby setting up a unified, fair and normalized electric market system.During the period, the total investment by the State Power Corporation will reach RMB 600 billion, in which some RMB 170 billion yuan will be used on trunk network and about 190 billion yuan on the network in urban and rural areas, accounting for 60 percent of the total investment. And more 63,00- km long 220KV or above electric transmission line will be put up and increase well as 226 million KVA electric converting capacity, thus to complete the urban and rural electric network reconstruction. As reported, over the past five years, China has made great achievements in the electric power industry. By the end of 2000, the generating sets China installed witnessed a combined capacity of over 300 million KW and it was the world second in both general installed capacity and yearly electricity generation. Therefore, China has stepped into the new development period for achieving the most optimum distribution of resources and nationwide networking project instead of building large-scale electric network, big generating sets, super-high voltage, and high-level automation as did in the Ninth Five-year Plan period. Along with pushing forward the nationwide networking project, which includes the projects of "power transmission from west to east" and "mutual power supply between north and south", the State Power Corporation will strengthen the structural adjustment and the system reform. This is centered on severing the government role from enterprise management, separating generating plants from electric network and cutting up distribution from sales and transmission from distribution. It will also expand its economic scale and benefits by upgrading technological level. By 2005,the State Power Corporation is to achieve the 220KV-and-above electric transmission line of 210,000km, electric converting capacity of 580 million KVA, and to sell electricity of 1.2 trillion KV-hour, with a yearly increase of seven percent. By PD Online staff member Huang Ying |
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