Electric power in China

The handicap under which China has attemped to start industrialization is due largely to the inadequacy of her electric power installations. Installed generating capacity per capita in China is 1.7 watts, less than 0.5 per cent of that in the United States. Future power development has been planned by the Chinese National Resources Commission involving almost two million kilowatts to be installed in the next five years. This ambitious program, which almost will quadruple the present capacity, may meet with success or failure depending upon the outcome of the present civil war and the establishment of economic stability.