China's longest submarine cable to send more power to south end

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China's longest submarine cable to send more power to south end

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China's longest submarine electricity cable with a high capacity will be laid through the south Qiongzhou Straits, connecting the power system of south China's Hainan Province with China Southern Power Grid.

According to an official with Hainan development and reform department, the 34.7-km-long submarine cable will extend from Xuwen county's Jiaowei town, south China's Guangdong province, to Qiaotou town, Hainan's Chengmai county.

Apart from the 900 million yuan (about 109 million US dollars) investment in the cable, another 1.7 billion yuan (about 206 million US dollars) would be invested in the construction of two 500 kv transformer substations on both sides of the strait, said the official.

Countries with advanced technologies of laying submarine cableslike Italy, Norway and Japan have shown interest in the project.

The Hainan power grid is an isolated one, whose installed capacity is merely 2.8 percent of that of China Southern Power Grid.

The submarine cable would be conducive to improving the investment environment, boosting the economic development of Hainan, and would even be significant to strengthen the guard of the South China Sea, the official said.

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