2025 marks the 143rd anniversary of the availability of electricity in China and the 20th anniversary of China's establishment of the Cultural and Natural Heritage Day. Industrial heritage is an important component of cultural heritage. To fully implement the strategic arrangements of the Party Central Committee on building a culturally strong country and advancing new-type industrialization, give play to the resource advantages of energy and power enterprises, strengthen the protection and utilization of electric power industrial heritage, inherit industry culture and carry forward the electric power spirit, the China Electricity Council (hereinafter referred to as "CEC") held the 2025 "China Electric Power Theme Day" event in Jilin City on July 26, with the theme of "Carrying Forward the Torch of Industry and Illuminating the Path of Spirit".
Xin Baoan, Chairman of the China Electricity Council (CEC) and President of the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization, delivered a welcome speech and a keynote report. Huang Xuenong, Supervisory Director of the National Energy Administration; Sun Xing, Deputy Director of the Industrial Culture Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; and Huang Zhen, Deputy Chief Engineer of the State Grid Corporation of China and Director cum Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of its Northeast Branch, delivered speeches respectively. Yang Kun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Vice Chairman of CEC, presided over the event.
In his keynote report titled Carry Forward the Torch of Industrial Heritage, Illuminate the Path of Spirit, and Advance High-Quality Development of the Power Industry Through Sustained Inheritance, Xin Baoan stated that as an important carrier of China's industrial civilization, power industry heritage possesses unique historical, technological, social, and cultural values. It has played a significant role in connecting historical memories, uniting industrial spirit, and empowering innovative practices across various historical stages.
Xin Baoan emphasized that 2025 is the concluding year of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and a crucial year for laying a solid foundation to ensure a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan". The power industry bears heavy responsibilities and faces a series of new situations, tasks, and challenges, such as implementing the "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" goals and accelerating the construction of a new power system. It is essential to further strengthen cultural confidence, adhere to maintaining integrity while pursuing innovation, and guide the wave of reform with new development concepts. Efforts should be made to dig deep into the cultural treasures of power industry heritage, extract the essence of historical wisdom, activate the genes of innovative development, and vigorously promote the power spirit of "loyalty and dedication, seeking truth and innovation, striving for excellence, and contributing light". This will inject strong impetus into the high-quality development of the power industry and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
During the event, Feng Laifa, Director, General Manager, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of National Energy Investment Group Co., Ltd.; Zu Bin, Director and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of China Huadian Corporation Limited; Yan Hang, Chief Accountant and Member of the Party Leadership Group of State Power Investment Corporation Limited; and Zhang Shaofeng, Director and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of China Dongfang Electric Group Co., Ltd., delivered keynote speeches respectively, drawing on their groups' innovative practices in the protection and utilization of industrial heritage.
Hao Yingjie, Member of the Party Committee and Secretary-General of CEC, released the list of power industry heritage, which includes 80 projects such as the Shilongba Power Station. In conjunction with the release of the power industry heritage list, CEC, together with the Power Literature and Art Association and the China Electric Power Ideological and Political Work Research Association, published and distributed the book Roots of Electricity: List of Power Industry Heritage. During the event, the Initiative on Strengthening the Inheritance, Protection, and Utilization of Power Industry Heritage was also released, and a thematic promotional video on power industry heritage produced by CEC was screened. Additionally, a thematic imprint exhibition on power industry heritage was held concurrently during the event.
In the on-site exhibition segment of excellent works from the Power Industry Heritage Themed Story Contest, splendid performances were staged featuring works from four entities: State Grid Fujian Electric Power Co., Ltd., China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Guangzhou Power Supply Bureau, Huadian Yunnan Power Generation Co., Ltd. Shilongba Power Plant, and Gezhouba Hydropower Plant of China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd. under China Three Gorges Corporation. Through ingenious forms of expression, these works told stories of power industry heritage, vividly presenting the ideological connotations, contemporary values, and educational significance embodied in industrial heritage, and won warm applause from the audience.
Nearly 400 people attended the event, including responsible persons and representatives from CEC's chairman units, vice-chairman units, and relevant member units; heads of relevant departments of CEC; personnel from units included in the Power Industry Heritage List; cast and crew of excellent works from the Power Industry Heritage Story Contest; and members of the news media.
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