Sun Xiaoyi Attends the Closure Ceremony of Namtha No.1 Hydropower Project

On November 6, Sun Xiaoyi, a member of the CSG Party Leading Group, attended the closure ceremony of the Namtha No.1 Hydropower Project in Laos.

Sun Xiaoyi visited the construction site, listened to the updates about the project and visited project members. Sun was satisfied with the progress and thanked everyone for their hard work.

Sun Xiaoyi noted that the Namtha River Hydropower Project was CSG’s important move to go global and to respond to National One Belt and One Road initiative. The State Council confirmed the power cooperation with the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and commissionted CSG to carry it out. CSG worked hard on its going global program and focused on partnership with GMS countries. Namtha River Hydropower Project was a testimony to the China and Laos cooperation and the main projects would be finished ten months in advance, a mission impossible had it not been the hard work of CSG employees. In the future, the project would play an exemplary role for China and Laos partnership and promote local infrastructure construction and economic development.

The project is located in the northern Bokeo Province, near the Yunnan Xishuangbanna in China. CSG and the Lao National Power Corporation jointly invested in the form of BOT. The total installed apacity reached 168 MW and the total investment was about RMB 2.7 billion. The Namtha No.1 Hydropower Station will mainly generate electricity. The normal water elevation is about 455.00 meters and the storage capacity is 1.755 billion cubic meters. The the maximum height of the dam is 93.65 meters. After the river closure, the project construction will enter the peak period.