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> Copyright 2000 Agence France Presse
> Agence France Presse
>
> October 2, 2000, Monday 10:02 AM, Eastern Time
>
> HEADLINE: Vietnam secures 300 million dollars in loans from China
> DATELINE: HANOI, Oct 2
>
> Vietnam secured loans worth 300 million dollars to carry out four
> key industrial projects during a visit to Beijing last week by Prime
> Minister Phan Van Khai, industry ministry officials said Monday.
> The loans will fund construction of two hydroelectric power stations
> -- Cai Ngan in the northern town of Thai Nguyen and Rao Quan in the
> central province of Quang Tri -- as well as a new copper smelter in
> the northern province of Lao Cai and a fertilizer plant in the port
> city of Danang.
> The loans will be repayable over 15 years at interest rates of between
> 4.02 and 4.75 percent and the agreements stipulate that 70 percent of
> the supply contracts will go to Chinese firms, the head of the
> ministry's international cooperation department, Tran Minh Huan, told
> AFP.
> During a visit to Hanoi by Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji last
> December, Vietnam secured loans worth 55 million dollars to fund the
> renovation of two major industrial plants built with Chinese aid
> during the Vietnam War -- the Thai Nguyen steel mill and the Bac Giang
> fertilizer plant.
> Economic links between the two communist neighbours have blossomed
> with the thaw in relations of recent years and two-way trade reached
> 1.5 billion dollars in 1999.
> ltl-kir/bro
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> Copyright 2000 British Broadcasting Corporation
> BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - Economic
> Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring
>
> October 2, 2000, Monday
>
> HEADLINE: Vietnam's hydroelectricity capacity reviewed
> SOURCE: VNA news agency web site, Hanoi, in English 30 Sep 00
>
> Text of report by the Vietnamese news agency VNA web site
> Hanoi, 30th September: Vietnam's nine hydropower plants currently make
> up 53 per cent of the energy sector's capacity, but they produced
> 23,739m kWh or 58.7 per cent of the country's output in 1999.
> The nine hydropower plants are of various sizes, some small like Dray
> Hlinh, others medium like Da Nhim, Thac Ba, Thac Mo and Tri An, and
> still others large like Hoa Binh and Yaly.
> The largest one is the Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant, which was built in
> 1980 in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh with assistance
> from the former Soviet Union. The plant accounted for 40 per cent of
> the country's capacity, but 60 per cent of its electricity output. It
> has to date supplied 61bn kWh to the national grid, an average of
> 8.16bn kWh a year. With a reservoir capable of holding as much as 5bn
> cu.m. of water, the plant has also contributed to the control of
> flooding in the Red River Delta. For such achievements, the plant has
> been awarded the title of Labour Hero, the highest distinction for
> production activities.
> The second largest hydropower plant is Yaly, currently being built in
> the central highlands province of Kon Tum. Its first group of
> generators has been running at full capacity (180 MW) since May this
> year and the second group is being run on a trial basis. The
> four-generator-group plant is the largest power project financed,
> designed and built entirely by Vietnam alone. The 720-MW plant is
> expected to commission the last generator group by the end of October,
> 2001.
> The nine hydropower plants have annually produced 13,973 GWh,
> representing 30 per cent of the electricity produced by fuel-powered
> plants. They have also provided irrigation water for 12,000 ha of
> cultivated land a year.
> For such reasons, the energy sector has tried to exploit the abundant
> water resources of the country.
> The national corporation, Electricity of Vietnam, has updated the
> technology of older plants, ensuring efficiency while protecting the
> environment. It has proposed the state approve the building of another
> 20 power plants with a combined capacity of 35,000 MW, including
> 11,000 MW from hydropower plants, in the 2001-2020 period. Prominent
> among the proposed plants is a hydropower plant in the northern
> mountainous province of Son La. The 3,600 MW plant is designed to
> generate 14bn kWh a year. It will also help increase the capacity of
> the Hoa Binh plant by 3m kWh a year (equivalent to a 800 MW plant).
>
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