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Yingli Green Energy will supply 70 percent of PV modules to the Gold Sun Program.

Hangtian MinJian New Energy Investment will purchase a 86.13 percent stake in Yingkou Wind Energy. Hangtian MinJian is a subsidiary of Fujian Mindong Electric Power.   Hangtian Minjian  will use no more than US$11 million to purchase 58.74 million shares of Yingkou Wind Energy at US$0.188 per share.   After the deal is completed, Yingkou Electric Power Development will own the remaining 9.46 million shares of Yingkou Wind Power, representing a 13.87 percent stake.   Yingkou Wind Power owns wind farms in Liaoning province. Its wind farms cover eight square kilometers and have installed capacity of 45 MW.   According to the board of Mindong Electric, the acquisition will enable the company to enter into the wind power market in Northeast China.  

China expects between 15 million and 17 million kilowatts of newly-added installed wind power capacity in 2010.

A US$2.46 billion project to connect the power grid in Tibet to China will be completed by 2012. This project includes 900 kilometers of power lines in an area at an average elevation of 4,000 meters above sea level, according to chinaview.com.

EuroSibEnergo's joint venture with China Yangtze Power  will develop hydro and thermal power projects in Siberia and the Russian Far East.

Huaneng Power will buy a 30-percent stake in CNNC Hainan Nuclear Power from its parent company China Huaneng Group. According to the China Securities Journal, the transaction value totaled US$26.1 million. Huaneng Power also plans to strengthen its coal transport and storage capacity by acquiring a 50-percent stake in Shanghai Time Shipping from Huaneng Energy & Communications Holding, another subsidiary of China Huaneng Group, for US$159 million. Huaneng Power will finance the aforementioned acquisitions with self-owned funds.

Datang Power will develop a photovoltaic power project with a total installed generation capacity of 50 megawatts in Shnaxi. According to China Knowledge, Datang International Power Generation Co. has signed an agreement with the government of Lingshi County, Shanxi Province about the project. It is the latest green energy project of Datang Power in response to the country's new energy development policy, which says the country will try to increase proportion of unconventional energy consumption in total to 15 per cent by 2020.

The CNEA has recommended a government 2020 target of 70 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity.

China has approved several new hydropower projects, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.

China is eyeing an additional 15-20 gigawatts of wind-power generating capacity annually in the next decade. This was revealed by the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association, according to reports by sxcoal.com. The country will likely have 40 GW of installed wind power capacity by the end of this year, up 60 per cent from 25 GW at end-2009, the association said in a statement. However, since China's wind-power capacity only accounts for less than 3 per cent of its total power-generating capacity, and wind power production only accounts for around 2 percent of its total electricity output, the association emphasized that the country's wind power sector still has much room for development.  

Inner Mongolia generated a total of 11.50 billion KW of wind power in the first 3 quarters of this year. The generation went up by 101.32 per cent year on year, according to statistics released by the Inner Mongolia government. At the end of September, Inner Mongolia total wind power installed capacity reached 7.78 million kW up by 99.22 per cent year on year, the Interfax China reported. The Inner Mongolia government has plans to increase installed capacity another 2.22 million kW over the coming year. The region potential wind resources exceed 150 million kW, roughly half of China total exploitable onshore wind power. Wind power is now the second largest power generation source in Inner Mongolia after coal fired thermal power.

China has dammed the Brahmaputra River in order to begin construction of a 510-MW Zangmu hydropower project.

Ming Yang will with the provincial government of Hebei  on a series of proposed wind energy projects.

CNNC and AREVA will work on big-size commercial aftertreatment and recycle plant project as well.  A memo of understanding was signed by CNNC general manager  Mr.Sun Qin and AREVA France president Mr.Luoweizhong.

CNNC and Westinghouse Electric has agreed to cooperate in nuclear power technology service. China National Nuclear Corporation General Manager Mr.Sun Qin signed the memo with Westinghouse Electric  president and CEO Mr. Kang Ruishi. Mr.Sun Qin and Mr. Ruishi  had previously met about the construction of Sanmen AP1000 nuclear power project and nuclear fuel production and the technology service management of nuclear power plant operations.