Tu Yun reports.
Burqin is a county with a population of 70,000 in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It has a folk saying that goes "one wind for a year, blowing from spring to winter". (www.hXen.com)
An abundance of wind power is the reason why Zhou Laiguo's company built their power plant here.
"The first phase of the project we've built is a power generator set composed of 66 wind mills. These mills can generate a total of 49 and half thousand kilowatts of electricity every hour.
The power generation of the plant is equal to four percent of the county's total electricity demands."
Like Zhou Laiguo's company, seven other firms engaged in wind power generation have settled in Burqin over the past few years.
Xinjiang is not the only region actively promoting wind power in China.
According to the national energy bureau, there are more than 10 thousand wind power generator sets in over 20 provinces and autonomous regions in the country.
Shi Lishan is a senior official with the bureau.
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