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hydroelectricity installed capacity will be about 350 million kilowatt (not including
pumped-storage power station) by 2020. As hydroelectricity resources mainly
locates in southwest region, exploitation faces huge difficulty. Besides, power
transmission channel also faces many knotty problems, such as high-elevation
region, heavy ice area, natural forest reserve, reservoir immigration and biological
environment influence etc. Therefore, the hydroelectricity development strategy of
China is to strongly promote hydroelectricity under the premise of biological
conservation and immigration settlement.
4.3.1.2 Strongly Boost Wind Power, Solar Energy and Biomass Energy
In recent years, non-hydro renewable resources, such as wind power, solar energy
and biomass energy etc, enjoy a promising development. The next ten years will be
a Golden Development Period.
In accordance with the plan and objective from departments concerned, the
accumulative installed capacity of wind power in China will reach 200 million
kilowatt by 2020 with the installed scale 3 times bigger than that in 2012. Installed
capacity of photovoltaic generation will be 50 million kilowatt and relative
technologies and facilities will enter a take-off stage. Installed capacity of biomass
power generation will be 30 million kilowatt.
4.3.1.3 Effectively Develop Nuclear Power Based on Security
Established nuclear development strategy of China is to develop nuclear power in
an effective way based on security. In 2011, influenced by Fukushima nuclear
power accident in Japan, Chinese government suspended the approval of new
nuclear power projects. Then, the State Council of China passed the Nuclear
Power Safety Plan (2011-2020) and the Mid- and Long-Term Development Plan
for Nuclear Power (2011-2020) on Oct. 2012. The construction of new nuclear
power stations have been resumed. But only a small number will be launched by
2015 and all of them will be located at coastal sites. Meanwhile, China will resume
construction of nuclear power plants “in a steady and orderly way” and “at a
reasonable pace”, and all new nuclear reactors must comply with the third genera-
tion and the highest international safety standards, according to the plans.
Fukushima nuclear power accident aggravates the hesitation from public
towards nuclear power security, which even enhances the importance of nuclear
security in China's nuclear power development. At present, nuclear power in active
development in China mainly adopts the Modified Second-Generation CPR1000
(commonly referred to as Second & Half Generation technology) and the Third-
Generation nuclear technology, such as AP1000, whose safety factor has been
improved effectively, compared with most Second-Generation technology in oper-
ation in the world. In addition, Fukushima nuclear power accident will prompt
China to absorb more experience and draw more lessons in safety construction, pay
more attention to the quality of project and reliability of facility to lower the
probability of such security accident. Certainly, Fukushima nuclear power accident
in Japan has exerted tremendous influence on nuclear power development in China.
