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The Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant is located in Haiyan County, Jiaxing City, east China's Zhejiang Province. /CNNC
China's first self-developed nuclear power plant, the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, has generated over 800 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity as of Friday since it started operation in December 1991.
Being a low-carbon clean energy source, the 800 billion kWh of electricity is equivalent to saving over 200 million tonnes of standard coal and reducing 740 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and 3.7 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide.
The nuclear power plant, located in east China's Zhejiang, has transmitted large amounts of electricity to the Yangtze River Delta region, one of China's most vibrant, open and innovative city clusters, with east China's Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces and Shanghai Municipality included.
The plant has been generating electricity for 32 years, with annual power generation increasing in eight consecutive years, according to Huang Qian, head of the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant under the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), one of the country's largest nuclear power operators.
Additionally, the plant was part of the first nuclear heating project in southern parts of China, providing winter heating for 464,000 square meters of residential property in Haiyan County.
The power plant, with nine operating units, has a total installed capacity of 6.66 million kilowatts and generates about 52 billion kWh of electricity per year.