Sany Heavy Industry : Chairman Xi Recommends Sany Wind Turbine to African Politicians

This time, there are 43 excellent Chinese companies attended the exhibition, covering electricity, railroad, railway transportation, engineering machinery, finance, aviation and some other fields. CRRC booth and Sany booth are the only two booths that Chairman Xi and African politicians stopped by and watched attentively. Chairman Xi shook hands with Tang Xiuguo, the director of Sany Group, and seriously visited 'the Second Period Ethiopia Adama Wind Turbine Project'. The responsible person of the attended enterprise reported to Chairman Xi that, 'the Second Period Ethiopia Adama Wind Turbine Project', built by Sany Group, CGC Overseas Construction Co., Ltd and Power Construction Corporation of China, Ltd, is the largest wind power farm in Ethiopia, and also the second large wind power project in Asia. This project efficiently promoted the transfer of China's wind power manufacturing capacity, enhanced the industrialization level of renewable energy resource in Ethiopia, and laid solid foundation for China's products gaining recognition in Africa, capacity cooperation between China and Africa, and realization of 'made in Africa'. During the visiting time, our Chairman nodded and nodded, went to the sand table, pointed to the simulated operating wind power project and said to South Africa's President Zuma and other countries' leaders 'this is the wind turbine project we built in Ethiopia, it brings clean energy to Africa.' South Sudan's President Kiir and other countries' leaders showed their strong interests in our project, and acquired more conditions about the equipments and construction.

According to the report, 'the Second Period Ethiopia Adama Wind Turbine Project' contains 102 sets of wind turbine, with 1.5MW each, 153MW installed capacity in total. It covers the 20% of the needs of electricity demand in the capital city of Ethiopia. In May of this year, Haier Maryam, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, visited the project site, and initiated the wind turbines personally. He fully admired the contribution that Sany has made to the economic social development, capacity building improvement of Ethiopia.

Now, Sany produce 40,000 sets of engineering equipment per year, 40% of them are exported abroad. Since the first equipment exported to Africa in 2002, Sany has exported more than 10,000 sets of equipment, and with more than 10 billion amount of money. Sany has contributed to almost all the major projects in Africa. The demonstrated 'the Second Period Ethiopia Adama Wind Turbine Project' fully shows the holistic solution capability of Sany global wind turbine, which strongly enhanced the international image of Sany brand, promoted the Sany internationalization and the development of new energy business.