---On 28th November, 2011, "Training 
                        Workshop on Efficiency Improvement and Capacity Increase 
                        for National Rural Hydropower" , cosponsored by SHP 
                        Special Committee of China Society for Hydropower Engineering 
                        and Hydropower Special Committee of Chinese Hydraulic 
                        Engineering Society and undertaken by HRC, was opened 
                        in Hangzhou. Mr. Liu Zhongming, Deputy Director of Rural 
                        Hydropower & Electrification Bureau, Ministry of Water 
                        Resources, attended the opening ceremony and delivered 
                        important speech.
                        
                           Nearly 200 representatives from Water 
                        Conservancy (Water Resources) Departments (Bureau) of 
                        related provinces, autonomous regions and municipality, 
                        and the Xinjiang Construction Corps attended the training 
                        workshop. The 3-day training workshop aims at strengthening 
                        the construction management of efficiency improvement 
                        and capacity increasing program for rural hydropower, 
                        ensuring the quality, progress, security and implementation 
                        effect of the program construction. The training workshop 
                        mainly includes: program funds and construction management, 
                        contents and major technique of efficiency improvement 
                        and capacity increase, main points on relevant technology 
                        standards, and experience and case study of efficiency 
                        improvement and capacity increase for rural hydropower.(2011-12-08) 
                      
                      
                      