The NEA''s dressing down of China Datang followed an incident last month that left one contract worker dead at a power plant run by one of its units in Chaozhou, South China''s Guangdong province. The company, whose
China Datang Corporation (CDT) is one of the five large-scale power generation enterprises in China, established on the basis of former State Power Corporation of China in 2002. It is a solely state-owned enterprise directly managed by the SASAC and is the experimental state-authorized investment and state shareholding enterprise ratified by the State Council.
Parent company: China Datang CorporationDatang International Power Generation Company Limited (SEHK: 991,SSE: 601991), simply Datang International Power or Datang Power, is one of the five largest state-owned power producers in China, especially its position in Northern China. It is engaged in the development and operation of power plants, the sale of electricity and thermal power, and the repair and maintenance of
The company, whose main business is power generation, said it was investigating the matter. In January, another worker was injured while checking boilers at one of China Datang’s power plants in Harbin, Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, and later died.
China Datang Corporation was founded on Dec 29, 2002 on the basis of some of the enterprises and public institutions under the former State Power Corporation of China. One of the large-scale power generation companies in China, it is a centrally-administered and wholly state-owned company.
On Feb. 24, China’s Datang’s Xi He power plant in Northwest China’s Shaanxi province urgently suspended operations to conduct an inspection of its facilities, citing concerns over repeated incidents.
Datang International Power Generation Company (大唐国际发电股份) is a core subsidiary company with approximately one third of the Group's thermal installed capacity. Datang Renewable Power Company was listed on the Hong Kong Stock exchange in December 2010.
Photo: VCG China’s top energy regulator has demanded that a state-owned giant China Datang Corp. immediately begin overhauling its management and operations to improve safety in the wake of two deaths at the company’s power plants.
Earlier this month, Fujian Datang International Ningde Power Generation Co. Ltd. discovered several potential safety issues during an inspection, including a short circuit caused by electrical overload. The reoccurrence of incidents at power plants across the country has alarmed the regulator.
