Recently, Shuangliu county in Sichuan province, which has one of the strongest economies in all of western China, has even bigger plans to become a new energy and manufacturing complex, centered on solar, nuclear and wind energy.

It already has a new energy industry base with great potential, and had one of China's top 100 new energy industry parks, in 2009 and 2010.

The county has an aviation industry zone with 39 new energy projects, each with an investment running in the hundreds of millions yuan. Total input amounts to 79.38 billion yuan.

When all of the projects are fully operational, they will generate 8.5 gigawatts of power and 4.5 gigawatts, from wind energy.

Sales of the county's new energy output rocketed to 13.8 billion yuan last year. The corresponding figure for 2008 was 800 million yuan, and, for 2009, 5.3 billion yuan.

The figure is expected to break the 20-billion-yuan barrier this year, and even go to 100 billion yuan, by 2015.

The area has a complete industrial chain and some of the best research and development levels in China.

Its work has been recognized by China's Science and Technology Ministry and the National Development and Reform Commission.

(China Daily 12/09/2011 page60)