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1 mln people in Xinjiang gain access to electricity in past 5 yrs

Xinhua, November 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nearly a million rural residents in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have gained access to electricity in the past five years, the regional energy authorities said on Friday.

The State Grid Corporation of China's Xinjiang branch has invested 17.08 billion yuan (2.68 bln U.S. dollars) since 2011 in 1,889 projects that helped to provide electricity to a total of 984,100 people in 81 counties, the company said.

According to Askar, deputy chief engineer of State Grid, the company will continue to invest another 40.8 billion yuan in power grid construction in rural areas in the next five years. As a result, rural per capita electricity consumption is expected to be raised to 1,204 kwh in 2020 from 738 kwh in 2014.

The company's news officer Li Yifeng said the remaining 100,000 people who have no access to electricity will be able to utilize electric power via independent photovoltaic panels by the year-end. Endi