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Sino-Vietnam Cooperation for Water Conservancy &

Hydropower Further Strengthened

Following the invitation of Vietnam Institute for Water Resources Research (VIWRR), the Chinese del-egation from Hangzhou Regional Center for Small Hydro Power (HRC) headed by the deputy director of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute (NHRI), director of HRC, Prof. Chen Shengshui, has paid a visit to VIWRR from June 5 to June 9, 2002 to explore the possibility and fields of cooperation. The delegation consists of three members, i.e. Director of HRC, Prof. Chen Shengshui, Chiefof automation division Mr. Xujincai and senior consultant Mr. Li Zhiwu.

During its stay in Viemam, the delegation mainly held technical exchange and cooperative discussion with the Vietnam Institute for Water Resources Research (VIWRR) and its affiliated Hydro Power Center (HPC).

In the afternoon of June 5, the delegation arrived in Hanoi, and on June 6 the deputy Director of HPC introduced the multi-purpose hydropower project-Jinshan Lake station, as well as the basic profiles of other 6 stations under programming or feasibility study that carried out by HPC.

In the morning of June 7, the delegation visited the Vietnam Institute for Water Resources Research, and with the participation of Dr. Nguyen Tuan Anh, Director of VIWRR, the deputy Director and senior researchers from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development etc., both Sides conducted technical exchanges, and introduced the structures and the business scopes of their research institutes, the main achievements scored and the being executed scientific and research activities as well. Cooperative fields and the possibility were discussed among VIWRR, HPC, Nanjing Hydropower Research Institute (NHRI) and Hangzhou Regional Center (Asia-Pacific) for Small Hydropower (HRC).

In the afternoon of June 7, Mr. Hoang Van Thang,
Director of HPC emphasized that Viemam would quicken steps to develop the medium and small-sized hydropower, and planned that recently 40 medium and small-sized hydropower stations are to be tapped, among which there are 15 stations with the installed capacity of 0.5-7MW, and 25 stations with the installed capacity of 9-100MW. In the past, in Viemam the medium and small-sized hydropower stations are all invested by the state, and now more fund channels are adopted including foreign fund and private investment.

On June 8, a field visit was organized to the pilot multi-purpose Jinshan Lake hydropower station, in which the dam, the powerhouse and the transmission lines have already been implemented, and turbine-generator units and the automation sys-tem waits to be equipped. The investment for this station is from VIWRR. After this visit, Chinese delegates believe that, this hydropower station is very close to Hanoi and the famous scenic area-Xialong Bay, only 40km away from Youyi Quan, which is endowed with beautiful natural environment, and other functions such as power generation, flood prevention, irrigation, fishery, environment protection, tourism and so on.

On June 9, the delegation introduced the Director of HPC with the basic thoughts of comprehensively developing the Jinshan Lake hydro- power station.

After several rounds of friendly discussions and field trip to the pro-posed hydropower plant, a memorandum of cooperation agreement signed coveres the following fields.
~ Experience exchanges on scientific studies and technology relevant to small hydropower works, automation, river training, coastal engineering, irrigation, drain-age and reclamation, new building material and software for water re-sources;
~ Cooperation in the program of providing hydraulic rams and small hydropower stations to mountainous area in Vietnam;
~ Cooperation in the program of flood control and natural disaster mitigation.

A delegation of VIWRR will visit to the NHRI to exchange experiences and discuss the cooperation in consulting design a hi-tech experiment area of the VIWRR which is 27 km away from Ha no.

Because Vietnam has great potential resources of SHP and is in rap-idly development stage to explore SHP, the cooperation between VIWRR, HPC and NHRI, HRC will have a brighter future.