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Xin’anjiang Hydropower Station

The Xin’anjiang Hydropower Station, the country’s first large-scale power plant designed and built by Chinese in the 1950s, is still the pride of the local people. It is on the Xin’an River in Jiande city of Zhejiang Province in east China. Moreover, it formed a huge reservoir (Qiandao Lake) with 1,078 islands, which is part [...]

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West-to-East Electricity Transmission Project

The major power generation plants in China are located in western and northern China. But the main power consumption is concentrated in the areas along and east of Beijing-Guangzhou railway. The West-to-East Electricity Transmission Project is thus proposed to exploit the abundant hydro-power resources in west China’s Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan provinces and transfer electricity [...]

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