China to export 2.5 bln kwh of electricity to Vietnam this year
China will export 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to Vietnam this year through a network of five power transmission lines, the China Southern Power Grid Company said on Sunday.
The company has enhanced the power transmission capacity to Vietnam by inaugurating a second 220-kilovolt line linking Wenshan in southwest China's Yunnan Province with Ha Giang in Vietnam, said Yuan Maozhen, president of the China Southern Power Grid Company.
"It will supply power to Vietnam for 10 years and will transmit an average 1 billion kwh of electricity a year," he said.
The Wenshan-Ha Giang power transmission line is 300 kilometers long, including 170 kilometers in China, and was built at a cost of 413 million yuan (53 million U.S. dollars).
The first 220-kilovolt power transmission line between China and Vietnam was inaugurated last September in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province.
In addition, three 110-kilovolt lines have been in operation since September 2004 to supply electricity to Vietnam by way of Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
By the end of March, the four existing lines had transmitted 1.84 billion kilowatt hours, worth 80.76 million U.S. dollars to Vietnam, said Yuan.
Construction of the power transmission network is part of a 500 million U.S. dollar power supply contract signed in October 2005 between the China Southern Power Grid Company and the state-owned Electricity of Vietnam (EVN).
Under the contract, the Chinese company will supply electricity to six provinces in northern Vietnam for at least 10 years.
According to Yuan, his company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Laos and Cambodia on three hydropower projects with an installed capacity of 3.52 million kilowatts. It is also involved in the construction of generation and transmission facilities in Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and other countries in the Mekong River valley.
Cross-border cooperation on the development and distribution of the rich hydropower resources of the Mekong river valley will contribute to the development and prosperity of the countries in the region, he said.
Source: Xinhua
The company has enhanced the power transmission capacity to Vietnam by inaugurating a second 220-kilovolt line linking Wenshan in southwest China's Yunnan Province with Ha Giang in Vietnam, said Yuan Maozhen, president of the China Southern Power Grid Company.
"It will supply power to Vietnam for 10 years and will transmit an average 1 billion kwh of electricity a year," he said.
The Wenshan-Ha Giang power transmission line is 300 kilometers long, including 170 kilometers in China, and was built at a cost of 413 million yuan (53 million U.S. dollars).
The first 220-kilovolt power transmission line between China and Vietnam was inaugurated last September in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province.
In addition, three 110-kilovolt lines have been in operation since September 2004 to supply electricity to Vietnam by way of Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
By the end of March, the four existing lines had transmitted 1.84 billion kilowatt hours, worth 80.76 million U.S. dollars to Vietnam, said Yuan.
Construction of the power transmission network is part of a 500 million U.S. dollar power supply contract signed in October 2005 between the China Southern Power Grid Company and the state-owned Electricity of Vietnam (EVN).
Under the contract, the Chinese company will supply electricity to six provinces in northern Vietnam for at least 10 years.
According to Yuan, his company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Laos and Cambodia on three hydropower projects with an installed capacity of 3.52 million kilowatts. It is also involved in the construction of generation and transmission facilities in Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and other countries in the Mekong River valley.
Cross-border cooperation on the development and distribution of the rich hydropower resources of the Mekong river valley will contribute to the development and prosperity of the countries in the region, he said.
Source: Xinhua
17 comments:
Dear contributors, I like very much your blog. It is very satisfactory for the one who needs recent information. I appreciate your hard works.
However, I found that most of the time, your chosen titles are misleading. It implies very well which political party you prefer in Cambodia. And, the chosen titles make readers know that you are all lovers of Cambodia, nationalists and even racists. Like you, I suppose, I am afraid that our country will be phased out of the world map by Vietnam. It is as Vietnam, for long time, is afraid that it will be phased out of the world map by China. Based on this, I propose our countrymen should learn how Vietnam tackles intelligently with China. Some countrymen are lucky to live in civilzed countries, they are supposed to learn value of those countries, like hard working, appraciation of human value, respect enemy... Unfortunately, they just want to become shit of those civilized countries by using shit language of those countries.
We should not be blinded by unreasonable racism. For instance, in this texte, I find no where that Vietnam will use the power bought from China to sell to Cambodia. And, it is economically unprofitable.
Cambodia bought power from Vietnam just for the provinces near border with Vietnam as it will be expensive to distribute power from other side of the Country.
I think my comments will contribute to improving your blog that should be the accurate sources of information.
With national friendship,
Nak Angkor,
Phnom Penh.
Agreed!
Beside from what you've said above,
just want to let you know that
chinese people have been doing
bussinesses as middle-man for
centuries now. They used to buy
from SE Asia for cheap and passed
on to West Asia , ... for profit.
Just bussiness, it is not a crime.
To those who wish to know more about the charateristic features of the relationships between Vietnam and China, and the impact of these relations on Cambodia, I would suggest you read the following article: " Why Vietnam loves and hates China", http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/ID26Ae01.html.
Enjoy your reading.
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
When you give me the link, I feel compelled to read it, and yes I learn more...but I hate it sometime. Why can't you give us just a couple of lines of summary loke OMM Lao Mong Hay? j/k. Joking asides, I do really appreciate the coaching. Thanks a million and take care Loke OMM!
Despite how it looks, I won't count
on Vietnamese assistances to invade
China and vice-versa, hehehe.
Anyway, I have been dialoging with
the mainland Chinese (Student and
all), interestingly they don't
know enough about Vietnamese
history then they should. Hardly
anyone have demonstrated to me
their knowledge about Vietnamese
annexed the Champa and Khmer Krom
nor do they know how the Vietnamese
defeated the Mogolian in the 13th
century. They just know about the
French occupation and the disputes
as mentioned in above article given
by Dr. Lao. That's about it.
Mr. 8:45AM
It seems you are eager to know more. It's very good. You know more and I or we gain more. So I would suggest you read the whole text below.
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
Why Vietnam loves and hates China
By Andrew Forbes
For more than 2,000 years, Vietnam's development as a nation has been marked by one fixed and immutable factor - the proximity of China. The relationship between the two countries is in many ways a family affair, with all the closeness of shared values and bitterness of close rivalries.
No country in Southeast Asia is culturally closer to China than Vietnam, and no other country in the region has spent so longfending off Chinese domination, often at a terrible cost in lives, economic development and political compromise.
China has been Vietnam's blessing and Vietnam's curse. It remains an intrusive cultural godfather, the giant to the north that is "always there". Almost a thousand years of Chinese occupation, between the Han conquest of Nam Viet in the 2nd century BC and the reassertion of Vietnamese independence as Dai Viet in AD 967, marked the Vietnamese so deeply that they became, in effect, an outpost of Chinese civilization in Southeast Asia.
While the other countries of Indochina are Theravada Buddhist, sharing cultural links with South Asia, Vietnam derived its predominant religion - a mix of Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism popularly known as tam giao or "Three Religions"- from China. Until the introduction of romanized quoc ngu script in the 17th century, Vietnamese scholars wrote in Chinese characters or in chu nho, a Vietnamese derivative of Chinese characters.
Over the centuries, Vietnam developed as a smaller version of the Middle Kingdom, a centralized, hierarchical state ruled by an all-powerful emperor living in a Forbidden City based on its namesake in Beijing and administered by a highly educated Confucian bureaucracy.
Both countries are deeply conscious of the cultural ties that bind them together, and each is still deeply suspicious of the other. During the long centuries of Chinese occupation, the Vietnamese enthusiastically embraced many aspects of Chinese civilization, while at the same time fighting with an extraordinary vigor to maintain their cultural identity and regain their national independence.
During the Tang Dynasty (6th-9th centuries AD), Vietnamese guerrillas fighting the Chinese sang a martial song that emphasized their separate identity in the clearest of terms:
Fight to keep our hair long,
Fight to keep our teeth black,
Fight to show that the heroic southern country can never be defeated.
For their part, the Chinese recognized the Vietnamese as a kindred people, to be offered the benefits of higher Chinese civilization and, ultimately, the rare privilege of being absorbed into the Chinese polity.
On the other hand, as near family, they were to be punished especially severely if they rejected Chinese standards or rebelled against Chinese control. This was made very clear in a remarkable message sent by the Song Emperor Taizong to King Le Hoan in AD 979, just over a decade after Vietnam first reasserted its independence.
Like a stern headmaster, Taizong appealed to Le Hoan to see reason and return to the Chinese fold: "Although your seas have pearls, we will throw them into the rivers, and though your mountains produce gold, we will throw it into the dust. We do not covet your valuables. You fly and leap like savages, we have horse-drawn carriages. You drink through your noses, we have rice and wine. Let us change your customs. You cut your hair, we wear hats; when you talk, you sound like birds. We have examinations and books. Let us teach you the knowledge of the proper laws ... Do you not want to escape from the savagery of the outer islands and gaze upon the house of civilization? Do you want to discard your garments of leaves and grass and wear flowered robes embroidered with mountains and dragons? Have you understood?"
In fact Le Hoan understood Taizong very well and, like his modern successors, knew exactly what he wanted from China - access to its culture and civilization without coming under its political control or jeopardizing Vietnamese freedom in any way. This attitude infuriated Taizong, as it would generations of Chinese to come.
In 1407, the Ming Empire managed to reassert Chinese control over its stubbornly independent southern neighbor, and Emperor Yongle - no doubt, to his mind, in the best interests of the Vietnamese - imposed a policy of enforced Sinicization. Predictably enough, Vietnam rejected this "kindness" and fought back, expelling the Chinese yet again in 1428.
Yongle was apoplectic when he learned of their rebellion. Vietnam was not just another tributary state, he insisted, but a former province that had once enjoyed the benefits of Chinese civilizationand yet had wantonly rejected this privilege. In view of this close association - Yongle used the term mi mi or "intimately related" - Vietnam's rebellion was particularly heinous and deserved the fiercest of punishments.
China on top
Sometimes a strongly sexual imagery creeps into this "intimate relationship", with Vietnam, the weaker partner, a victim ofChinese violation. In AD 248, the Vietnamese heroine Lady Triu, who led a popular uprising against the Chinese occupation, proclaimed: "I want to ride the great winds, strike the sharks on the high seas, drive out the invaders, reconquer the nation, burst the bonds of slavery and never bow to become anyone's concubine."
Her defiant choice of words was more than just symbolic. Vietnam has long been a source of women for the Chinese sex trade. In Tang times, the Chinese poet Yuan Chen wrote appreciatively of "slave girls of Viet, sleek, of buttery flesh", while today the booming market for Vietnamese women in Taiwan infuriates and humiliates many Vietnamese men.
It's instructive, then, that in his 1987 novel Fired Gold Vietnamese author Nguyen Huy Thiep writes, "The most significant characteristics of this country are its smallness and weakness. She is like a virgin girl raped by Chinese civilization. The girl concurrently enjoys, despises and is humiliated by the rape."
This Chinese belief that Vietnam is not just another nation, but rather a member of the family - almost Chinese, aware of the blessings of Chinese civilization, but somehow stubbornly refusing, century after century, to become Chinese - has persisted down to the present day.
During the Second Indochina War, Chinese propaganda stressed that Vietnam and China were "as close as the lips and the teeth". After the US defeat, however, Vietnam once again showed its independence, allying itself with the Soviet Union, in 1978-79, invading neighboring Cambodia and overthrowing China's main ally in Southeast Asia, the Khmer Rouge.
Once again Chinese fury knew no bounds, and Beijing determined to teach the "ungrateful" Vietnamese a lesson. Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader, openly denounced the Vietnamese as "the hooligans of the East". According to one Thai diplomat: "The moment the topic of Vietnam came up, you could see something change in Deng Xiaoping.
"His hatred was just visceral. He spat forcefully into his spittoon and called the Vietnamese 'dogs'." Acting on Deng's orders, the Chinese army invaded Vietnam in 1979, capturing five northern provincial capitals before systematically demolishing them and withdrawing to China after administering a symbolic "lesson".
But who taught a lesson to whom? Beijing sought to force Hanoi to withdraw its frontline forces from Cambodia, but the Vietnamese didn't engage these forces in the struggle, choosing instead to confront the Chinese with irregulars and provincial militia. Casualties were about equal, and China lost considerable face, as well as international respect, as a result of its invasion.
Over the millennia, actions like this have taught the Vietnamese a recurring lesson about China. It's there, it's big, and it won't go away, so appease it without yielding whenever possible, and fight it with every resource available whenever necessary.
Just as Chinese rulers have seen the Vietnamese as ingrates and hooligans, so the Vietnamese have seen the Chinese as arrogant and aggressive, a power to be emulated at all times, mollified in times of peace, and fiercely resisted in times of war.
In 1946, 1,700 years after Lady Triu's declaration, another great Vietnamese patriot, Ho Chi Minh, warned his Viet Minh colleagues in forceful terms against using Chinese Nationalist troops in the north as a buffer against the return of the French: "You fools! Don't you realize what it means if the Chinese remain? Don't you remember your history?
"The last time the Chinese came, they stayed a thousand years. The French are foreigners. They are weak. Colonialism is dying. The white man is finished in Asia. But if the Chinese stay now, they will never go. As for me, I prefer to sniff French shit for five years than to eat Chinese shit for the rest of my life."
Yet Ho was an ardent admirer of Chinese civilization, fluent in Mandarin, a skilled calligrapher who wrote Chinese poetry, a close friend and colleague of Chinese leaders Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. Ho wasn't as much anti-Chinese as he was pro-Vietnamese. It was his deep understanding of and respect for China that enabled him to recognize, clearly and definitively, the menace that "a close family relationship" with the giant to the north posed, and continues to pose, for Vietnam's independence and freedom.
It's ironic, then, that as the current Vietnamese leadership strive to develop their economy along increasingly capitalist lines while at the same time retaining their monopoly on state power, the country they most admire and seek to emulate is, as always, the one they most fear.
Andrew Forbes is editor of CPA Media as well as a correspondent in its Thailand bureau. He has recently completed National Geographic Traveler: Shanghai , and the above is an excerpt from his forthcoming book A Phoenix Reborn: Travels in New Vietnam.
Now, that's what we are talking about. You're the best loke OMM Dr. Lao Mong Hay. Thank you so very much again for your transfer of knowledge!
To: Nak Angkor!!
I just never understand why some stupid Cambodian like you continue to blame Cambodian people who are the VICTIM living under the Vietcong aggression!!!! If those dirt poor Cambodian people can afford the computer and the internet service like I am and they would be saying the same bad language just like I am because of their frustration in dealing with AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave and the Vietcong master!!!!
AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave government deny the existence of the Khmer people in Khmer Kampuchea Krom????This is outrageous!!!!Tell me where do you find a government that deny the existence of their own people??
I had been to Cambodia many times and still going...I know for a fact how frustrated it is to deal with AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave government!!!!I am here to express the same frustration too!!!!
As long as the long standing issues are not solved and the demand by Cambodian people are not met and there won't be any improvement in communication and the discussion will continue until the AH HUN SEN vietcong slave step down or fall from power!!!!!
If you are civilized all by yourself is not enough and you need the world to be civilized too for the world to be a better place!
By the way, I don't respect no enemy!!!!!The Vietcong enemy need to get the fuck out of Cambodia and they better free the 14 million Khmer Krom people!!!!!
Ah Khmer-Yuon is Yuon citizen, not
Khmer citizen. What is the matter
with you, you brainless idiot
(1:36)?
3:35 AM Nak Angkor first of all you live in the wrong place and secondly Khmer are always being nice and that why we keep losing land. Learn history brother, me is not about hating but defending the Khmer people. you need to understand politics before you want to say nice thing to people. And like the moron who reply below you he think that rapping 8 years old girl is just Chinese business. Please don't be a moron Cambodian can survive on its own without the Yuon or the Chinese.
1:54 PM you just fuck up with your theory again please don't forget to read what you haven written, you are embarrasing me with your illusion theory. Anyway if you want to know Khmer-Yuon or Yuo-Khmer look no further but the CPP regime they are all fucking each other up so don't just point fingers at innocent people who love each other. This is the type of idiot I come across with. Learn to accept mistake and with you insanity Youn-Khmer and Khmer-Yuon you're going no where.
10:30 AM thank you for that article
4:58 AM fucker seller and rapping 8 years old girl is part of your business too.
Bullshit, that is Ah Khmer-Yuon
bussiness.
And 2:17, cut out the nonsense,
will ya? If Ah Khmer-Yuon is not
Yuon's citizen, they would have
kicked their asses out of Vietnam
long ago, get it?
First, thanks Dr. Lao for the texte.
Dear 1:36 pm,
I would reply to your point by point.
Even the guys who can afford the computer like you have difficulty to conceive the world as it is nowadays. You don't understand at all how the world work today. You don't live alone in this planet. You can make more effort to be smartly frustrated.
I hope you spend a little time to read the texte proposed by doctor Lao. How Vietnam is afraid of China? Not less than we are afraid of Vietnam. We have population 7 times less than Vietnam as Vietnam 15 times less than China. Vientam had been under China's control for 900 years. You see how difficult situation Vietnam faced.
You are afraid opponents and even don't respect them, the faillure will wait for you. I will tell you, when we respect opponent, it doesn't mean you are afraid of them, but you gain energy to study about them. When you know enemy and yourself, you will win every battles.
You know how Pol Pot did in the past? He had been afraid his country will be lost. He had been afraid untill he killed all his supporters, his close friends as they were, as he thought, all puppets of VN. No Cambodians lover Cambodia more than a few of them. We have to learn what we have done and keep the right thing.
The right thing we have to learn is to live in peace and constructive cooperation with our neighbors, that will be based on mutual interest.
We learn that defragmented rebillions like Achar Swa, Po Kambor will lead to failure. But, their sacrifice will stay with Cambodians like me. And, we can do better. We have to "think globally and act locally or individually".
Just to show international readers that Cambodians peoples can afford to think not be blinded by racist mentality.
With national friendship,
Nak Angkor,
Phnom Penh
To 6:14PM Nak Angkor!
You still have this notion of blaming the victim and everything will solve by itself!!!This is bullslhit mentality!!!! Let face it!!!Cambodian people had been living next to the Vietcong since the Mongol invasion of southeast Asia!Cambodian people had learned enough about the Vietcong dog eaters to know who are their friend and foe! Who said that Cambodian people stop learning???
Why do you care so much about the Vietcong facing mighty China?? I never care about the Vietcong because the Viet have their root from China anyway and it is naturally that China exerted their influence on the Viet!!!!I will tell you that without China influence the Viet won't have anything in their culture!!!!!!
Cambodian people have no root from the Vietcong!!!So the Vietcong better fuck off!!!!Cambodian people have their own culture,language, and way of life and no Vietcong are going to take that away from Cambodian people!!!
If the fucken Vietcong and the Thaicong want to be constructive about any issues with Cambodia and they don't need to send their fucken army into Cambodia to harass dirt poor Cambodian farmers living on their land to show that they are fucken mighty and better than Cambodian!!!If the fucken Vietcong and the Thaicong want to show how powerful they are and the day will come soon or later!!
By the way, I don't care about your international readers because they don't have enough background knowledge to know what the hell is going on here!!!!ahahahahhahahahhah
You are a racist yourself for condoning the Vietcong racist aggression on Cambodian people!!!!!
Cambodian people need to take a stand!!!!!
Count me in, 6:44!
And shut the fuck up, 9:33.
Vietcong liberated Khmer from the
evil KR regime and save millions
of Khmer people and its culture
and heritage. Without the
Vietcong, we would have lost
about 66% of our culture by now,
and be completely wipe out by 2030.
To 3:01AM Vietcong lover!
ahahahhahahhahah!
The Vietcong liberated Khmer people from the Khmer Rouge regime???ahahahh So tell me who is in charge of AH HUN SEN Vietcong puppet government installed by the Vietcong since 1979 up to now? Are they not a former Khmer Rouge leaders??? So who is liberating who??ahahahhah Do you see how fuck up your logic is!!!!!ahahhahahha
I don't even know how the fuck you can come up with 66% or 2030??? Is this another Vietcong intelligence?
ahahahhahhah
The Vietcong are one selfish motherfucker because they do it base on self-interest otherwise million of Cambodian people would have been saved if the Vietcong really want to save these helpless Cambodian people but they chose not to!!
Uncle HO is the founding father of Indochina Communist Party know more about the Khmer Rouge communist better than you and who will argue with Uncle HO now??ahahahhahh
The Vietcong sure did liberate Cambodian people but Cambodian people are still living under the same Khmer Rouge leadership and the same fucken Vietcong puppet government installed since 1979!!
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