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2003 International SHP Training Workshop is opened on 13th
October at Hangzhou Regional Center for Small Hydro Power(HRC),
and over 30 participants from Micronesia, Sri Lanka, Columbia,
Romania, Egypt and etc of 21 Asian, African, Latin American,
Eastern European and Oceanic countries will attend the training
with the duration of some 40 days.
This training workshop is sponsored
by Chinese Ministry of Commerce. All the lodging, boarding,
training, pocket money and the domestic transportation fees
are borne by the Chinese government. This is part of the
Chinese contribution to South-South cooperation.
Participants are required to master
the basic theory and principles of SHP development, feasibility
study, engineering management, operation, maintenance etc.
and increase their ability to solve the concrete problems
concerning SHP exploitation. The subjects include procedures
of SHP development, feasibility study, hydrological analysis,
low-cost civil structure, turbo-generator units and auxiliary,
electric equipment design, economic evaluation, operation,
maintenance, SHP policy and legal aspects etc.
Lectures are combined with discussions,
SHP forum and case study plus study tours, so as to consolidate
the theoretical knowledge acquired and get practical experience.
Study tour will be arranged to Shaoxing, Shengzhou, Linhai,
Yueqing, Ningbo, Xiaoshan, Deqing, where the participants
are to visit some SHP stations of various development types,
combining the techniques of low-cost civil structures and
appropriate automation controlling system as well as some
hydro power equipment manufacturers. Study tour will also
be conduced to Nanjing and Shanghai so as to see the fast
economic development of the China?¡¥s eastern coastal areas.
HRC was jointly set up by the UN
and the Chinese government in 1981. Entrusted by Chinese
Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Commerce (previously
called Ministry of Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation),
Ministry of Science & Technology, UNDP, UNIDO, ILO,
FAO etc., HRC has successfully hosted over 50 various training
workshops with over 2000 participants, including many international
meetings and 36 SHP training workshops with over 600 participants
from 70 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, East Europe
and Oceania.
Due to the outstanding achievement
in international SHP exchange and cooperation scored, the
Center was awarded as the ?¡ăModel of South-South Cooperation?¡À
by MOFTEC at the turning the century. In the speech delivered
at Zhejiang University in mid October 2002, the United Nations
Secretary General K. Annan mentioned that right at Hangzhou
China you have made use of the Regional (Asia-Pacific) Center
where you have shared your valuable rich experience in the
field of renewable energy with those from the numerous developing
countries in the world. China is playing a pioneering role
in the regional technical cooperation with the developing
countries. You developed a lot of cooperative projects not
only in foreign countries, but also you have generously
implemented training workshops for those from the developing
countries. (2003-10-14)
