Learned from the "2017 Chinese Hydropower Development Forum reporters before the 2016 national new hydropower installed capacity of about 10 million kilowatts, total installed capacity reached 330 million kilowatts; newly approved construction of major hydropower project 11, the total installed capacity of 15 million 670 thousand kilowatts, including the Yellow River Maerdang, Jinsha River Yeba Beach 4 hydropower stations, and Liaoning Qingyuan, Fujian Xiamen 7 pumped storage power station; in addition, the world's second stations early Jinsha River Baihetan Hydropower large hydropower station has been fully completed and submitted to the State Council, will soon be approved.

In 2016, the steady development of hydropower at the same time, reflecting the shift speed, the new features of the transformation and adjustment. On the whole, the achievements of hydropower development in 2016 should be fully affirmed, and hydropower development in our country has entered a new period of development and new normal." Chief engineer of the national energy board Han Shui said at the forum.

Construction continued to slow down

"12th Five-Year" period, China's hydropower development has made great progress, the conventional new water and electricity installed capacity reached 98 million kilowatts, is 1.6 times the planning target; by the end of 2015, the conventional hydropower installed capacity reached 297 million kilowatts, more than 37 million kilowatts of planning objectives. In addition to conventional hydropower installed exceeded targets, the main indicators of conventional hydropower, new construction scale of pumped storage of newly installed and new construction scale and reflect the ability of sustainable development of the industry, are far lower than that of the "12th Five-Year" hydropower planning objectives.

Data show that in 2015 the annual increase of 16 million 80 thousand kilowatts of hydropower production, only about 10 million kilowatts in 2016. Hydropower construction speed 'inflection point', started, the scale of production began to decline, into the new channel." Han pointed out that water, "while slowing down, but the development focus gradually shifted, with the upper reaches of the Jinsha River Walong Su hydropower station construction, as well as Yeba Ertan Hydropower Station successfully approved," west to East "connecting base officially started construction. At the same time, the internal structure optimization and adjustment of hydropower development trend is obvious, major projects, the role of regulation and control to accelerate the construction of power plants, the first time the scale of the power plant is larger than conventional hydropower."

"Hydropower development plan" clearly "13th Five-Year", five years of the new production 60 million kilowatts of hydropower, hydropower and new construction of Pumped Storage Power Station 60 million kilowatts, in 2020 the total installed capacity of hydropower will reach 380 million kilowatts of development tasks. China Hydropower Association Chairman Zhang Ye said: "the national energy work conference before the end of the day, put forward this year, efforts to optimize the structure of energy supply, accelerate the clean energy transmission channel construction, accelerate the construction of pumped storage power station, and strive to start a new hydropower installed capacity of 20 million kilowatts of energy targets, China's hydropower industry is still for."

Hydropower is a renewable clean energy, although after years of development, China's hydropower development scale has been for many years ranked first in the world, the development level continues to rise, according to the amount of computing power reached about 40%, but compared with the amount of water resource rich, still have development potential.

At present, China has entered a new normal economic development and ecological civilization construction in the new stage, the production and consumption of energy revolution in the new period, the electric power industry has entered a new era of green and intelligent as the main technical characteristics." Zhang Ye said, "as a resource rich in hydropower, mature technology, reliable operation and is the irreplaceable clean and renewable energy, and actively develop hydropower is an important part of building a clean, safe and stable, low carbon economy efficient and sustainable modern energy system, is to promote China's revolution in energy production and consumption, and promote the great development of West China poverty alleviation strategy, promote the implementation of energy-saving emission reduction targets commitment to implement the central authorities put forward the important support of green development, the construction of ecological civilization and the beautiful China."

March into depth and breadth

Experts said that the "13th Five-Year" period is the crucial period of comprehensive deepening reform, but also to promote the accumulation of energy revolution accelerated phase. In order to do a good job of energy and hydropower development, the state has issued a number of energy, renewable energy and hydropower development plan, fully embodies the hydropower in China's energy development strategy indispensable role. Water and electricity will play an important role in non fossil energy and energy. Under the premise of protecting the ecological environment and properly resettlement, the development of hydropower is still the theme of hydropower development in the future.

Hydropower development in the new situation is facing new challenges and new requirements. At present, there are some hydropower stations abandoned water problems, on the other hand, hydropower construction costs increased significantly, including the cost of migration and ecological restoration costs. To solve these new situations, new problems, hydropower to the depth and breadth of development." Former Minister of water resources Wang Shucheng said at the meeting.

At present, the number of dams and hydropower installed capacity in China has been ranked first in the world, the dam design, construction level ranks first in the world. With the development of hydropower in the southwest area, which is more severe and the geological conditions are more complex, the requirements for engineering safety are becoming higher and higher. "In depth, two lines are drawn. A line is the bottom line, that is to ensure the absolute safety of the project. Another line is the high line, that is, to each hydropower station, water conservancy projects have been built into an ecological civilization. Water conservancy and hydropower engineering itself is an ecological project, we have to move towards a good ecological direction of ecological civilization, which is our goal." Wang Shucheng added.

Xin'An River hydropower station is one of the typical cases. Originally planned to build the power station just to generate electricity, but now a few decades after the Xin'An river has become the most reliable freshwater resources in Zhejiang, China's eastern region is the most important water resources