(Water Power and Dam Construction, February 2004, pp. 12–13).
New small hydro projects are being constructed in China with the aid of a US$105 million World Bank loan. Author takes a detailed look at three of the planned schemes. Since the mid-1980s China has undertaken an enormous power development programme to build the world's second largest electricity industry after the US. At the end of the Ninth Five Year Plan (1996 to 2000) China's installed electricity generation capacity stood at 319,000 MW and the national power output had reached 1368 BGWh a year.
New small hydro projects, Power development programme, Electricity generation capacity, Power output
