Vietnam plans to annually buy 0.7-1 billion kwh of electricity from China between 2007 and 2016, local newspaper Labor reported Friday.

The power is expected to be transferred via 220-kv transmission lines from April 2007, sources from the Electricity of Vietnam ( EVN) were quoted by the paper as saying.

Vietnam is accelerating construction of transmission lines and transformer stations for the purchase of electricity from China to serve its northern localities, said the state-owned corporation EVN.

Vietnam is to import over 1 billion kwh electricity this year and 1.3 billion kwh next year from China via both 110-kv and 220- kv lines, under contracts already signed by the EVN and Chinese power companies.

Source: Xinhua