China hungry for electricity this summer

China will be thirsting for more electricity this summer than in the previous year. According to the State Power Grid Corp. of China, the country consumed a total of 480 billion kwh of electricity in the first quarter of this year, that's 16 percent higher than at this same point last year.

All provincial power grids have set ceilings for power use and have sometimes even shut off the supply, except in China's northeast Ji-lin, Liao-ning and Hei-long-jiang provinces.

China's northwest Xin-jiang Uygur Autonomous Region and South China's Hai-nan Province, also get the same preferential treatment, according to the State Power Grid Corp.

This year the power demand across the country will exceed the supply by 30 million kwh. And the leading power consumers will be situated in east China's Zhe-jiang, Jiang-su and An-hui provinces along with the city of Shanghai, the country's economic and financial center.

Source: CCTV