---On May 25th, 2010 Shanghai Expo's
"United Nations Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO) Week—Workshop on Small Hydropower for Promoting
Green Economy and Sustainable Development of Communities"
was held in the UN pavilion of the Expo Park. Vice Minister
of Water Resources Ministry, Mr Hu Siyi, Deputy Director
General Mr Pu Yuanyi were present and delivered speeches.
Mr. Tian Zhongxing, director of Hydropower
& Rural Electrification Bureau of Water Resources
Ministry attended this Workshop and gave a key-note speech
on small hydropower's effect in controlling the global
climate change and ecological civilization construction
and proposed some new approaches on small hydropower development.
Ms. Cheng Xialei, director of HRC attended
the Workshop and answered questions put forward by representatives
from both home and abroad on how Chinese small hydropower
standards goes global so as to support exportation of
Chinese SHP equipment.
The representatives of UNIDO headquarters,
China office of UNIDO, International Small Hydropower
Association and some other international organizations
as well as leaders of related bureaus of Water Resources
Ministry, representatives of local governments and companies
and experts in small hydropower attended this Workshop
with the purpose of finding a way to develop environmentally
friendly small hydropower. Some experts of international
cooperation, science and technology division of HRC also
took part in the discussions of the Workshop.(2010-06-12)
