Alain Berger, president of Alstom China announced on January 22 in Beijing that the company will lend its full support to the construction of grand hydropower projects here in China.

So far Alstom has won the packet bidding of 16 300,000-KW pump storage power stations and cooperated with Dongfang Electronic Corporation in building the Heimifeng Hydropower station in Changsha, capital of south China's Hunan province.

Apart from netting huge profits from Chinese market, Alstom has also set its foot into the technology transfer of world advanced hydropower units. Currently Tianjin Alstom Hydro Co., Ltd. has taken up some 20 percent share of the nation's total hydropower facility market.

(People's Daily January 26, 2006)