The National Bureau of Statistics released yesterday that China’s industrial production growth dipped to 8.2 percent in October, the slowest in seven years.
Output growth fell from September’s 11.4 percent and August’s 12.8 percent. It reinforced evidence that China’s economy risked a slowdown that required aggressive growth-spurring policies to stimulate it.
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At least nine nuclear power plants will be built over the next two years, the China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA) said in a news release on Tuesday.
With the four NPP projects currently under construction, the scale of building nuclear power plants in China is “large and unprecedented,” CAEA official Song Gongbao said in response to [...]
China may raise its total installed nuclear power generating capacity to 70 million kilowatts by 2020,75 percent higher than government target set in 2006, says a senior energy official.
The government was considering revising the 40-million-kw goal in the 2006 national nuclear power development plan, said Huang Li, head of energy conservation and equipment at the [...]
China’s electricity consumption in 2008 is expected to rise 8 to 8.5 percent from a year earlier, a government agency said.
The total electricity consumption for the year is expected to rise to 3,530 billion kilowatt hours, according to a statement dated Oct. 29 on the website of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission .
“Under [...]
The last generator of China’s Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River went online yesterday, meaning that the world’s largest hydropower plant has become fully operational.
Launched in 1993, the project’s original plan called for the 26 generators to produce 84.7 billion kWh of electricity annually after its completion.
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China Datang Corp, the nation’s second-largest power producer, may miss its full-year output target due to slowing demand growth and delayed expansions.
Production in the third quarter has lagged behind previously set targets, the Beijing-based company said yesterday.
China’s economy grew 10.1 percent in the three months ended June 30 from a year earlier, slowing its expansion [...]
