Electricity Corps powers after-quake reconstruction amid global financial turmoil

With the power supply resumed, the State Grid in Sichuan is expanding its capacity to meet the demand of intensified reconstruction.

"Power suppliers have to lead the way for reconstruction," said Du Xiaobo, director of Deyang Electric Power Bureau.

According to him, they contributed their efforts to such areas as grid expansion, power supply to infrastructure and industry projects, and residential consumption.

RECONSTRUCTION DEMAND CHAIN

On the reconstruction site of the road between Dujiangyan and Wenchuan in Sichuan, Feng Xuegang, general manager of the project, said they were turning the life-line of quake relief material transportation into a golden threat of opportunity for economic growth and tourism.

"We are in need of electric power as well as cement for the road building," Feng said.

One major cement supplier to the road reconstruction, the France-China joint venture Lafarge Dujiangyan Cement Company Limited, is resuming its second product line in November.

"The resumption of the line expands our power consumption," said Li Li, plant manager of the Lafarge Dujiangyan Cement Company Limited.

CUSHIONING GLOBAL FINANCIAL TURBULENCE IMPACT

The grid, one of the hubs in domestic demand expansion chain, connects reconstruction at one end, and its own material, equipment suppliers and employment at the other.

It helps suppliers cope with the effects of the global financial crisis.

Yang Fujun, a technical expert, landed a job in TBEA Deyang Cable Company Limited in Sichuan in October after quitting his jobin an electric cable company in Ningbo, a coastal city in Zhejiang Province, east China.

As the financial crisis deals a blow to the business of his previous employer, Yang finds that TBEA in Deyang, a manufacturer and exporter of cables, offers a better opportunity in reconstruction.