SHP Special Committee of China Society of Hydroelectric Engineering Set up in Hangzhou

   ---At the special time of 30 years' anniversary of China's reform and opening-up, the whole hydropower sector is carrying out a nationwide activity of "study and practice the Scientific Outlook on Development" to promote the development and reform of China's hydropower industry. On Dec. 15th, 2008, SHP Special Committee of China Society of Hydroelectric Engineering was set up in Hangzhou.
    Mr. Hu Siyi, vice minister of MWR, and Mr. Li Jugen, executive vice chairperson and general secretary of CSHE, attended the inaugural ceremony in person and delivered speeches. At the ceremony, Mr. Zhou Shangjie, deputy secretary of CSHE read to the audience the approval document of establishing SHP Special Committee and announced the members of the committee as well as the organization to which the committee is affiliated. In addition, some other leaders also addressed at the ceremony, including Mr. Tian Zhongxing, director of Bureau of Rural Hydropower and Electrification Development, Mr. Xu Wenbin, chief engineer of the Department of Water Resources of Zhejiang province, Mr. Liu Xiaotian, chief engineer of Bureau of Rural Hydropower and Electrification Development and Mr. Zhang Jianyun, director of Nanjiang Hydraulic Research Institute. Mr. Tian Zhongxing gave a keynote speech at the ceremony entitled "Small hydropower, big strategy". The ceremony is presided over by Mr. Chen Shengshui, deputy director of NHRI and director of HRC.
    Leaders from Ministry of Water Resources and IN-SHP are also among the participants attending the ceremony. And some 75 representatives from 43 organizations including governments, institutes and universities in 23 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) nationwide are present at the ceremony. Congratulations are received from China Society of Hydroelectric Engineering and Zhejiang Provincial Society of Water Resources.
    The inaugural ceremony is organized by National Research Institute for Rural Electrification (HRC), to which the committee is affiliated. (2008-12-19)