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Article: CHINA PREPARES FOR MAJOR NEW POWER STATION.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- April 12, 2001
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KUNMING, April 12 Asia Pulse - China is busy preparing for another world-class hydroelectric power station, second in size only to the mammoth Three Gorges Power Project.
The Xiaowan Hydroelectric Power Station is to be built on the middle reaches of the Lancang River, the fifth longest in China.
Construction of the Xiaowan station will start this year, Yunnan Provincial Governor Li Jiating announced here recently.
The new power plant will be the third large power project on the Lancang River, after the 1.5-million-kw one at Manwan and the 1.35-million-kw one at Dachaoshan. It will have six generating units with a designed capacity of 4.2 ...