The first press conference for Wind Power Shanghai 2007 & Exhibition was held in the China World Hotel in Beijing on November 24, 2006, attracting over 50 representatives from embassies, media and enterprises.

The exhibition will be held in Shanghai from October 31 to November 3, 2007. It is co-initiated and co-sponsored by Chinese Association of Resource Comprehensive Utilization, the Global Wind Energy Council, China Wind Power Association and Shanghai International Exhibition Co.  As expected, the exhibition will occupy an area of 10,000 square meters and 400 to 500 people will attend the conference.

The topics of the conference will focus on China's wind energy market, national policies and regulations, project investment and financing and technical development of the systems for connecting and detaching wind power fields with grids and construction of wind power fields at sea.

In order to serve the increasingly growing demand for technology, equipment and service in China's wind energy market, the sponsors will also hold a special exhibition in the Shanghai International Exhibition Center from November 1 to 3, 2007. 

With the implementation of the China Law on Renewable Resources and the Eleventh Five-Year Plan as of January 1, 2006, China's wind energy market will generate valuable opportunity for vigorous growth. The installed capacity of windmill generators is planned to reach 5 million kW in 2010, 10 million kW in 2015 and 30 million kW in 2020.

In 2005, the installed capacity of newly added windmill generators was 500,000 kW, increase by 254 percent and boosting a total installed capacity of 1.27 million kW in China.

(China.org.cn December 30, 2006)