On August 16, local time, the Mohmand Hydropower Station in Pakistan, built by China Energy Construction Gezhouba No. 3 Company, successfully closed the river, marking that the project construction has entered the "fast lane" and is about to enter the main dam filling stage.
In the Swat River, 48 kilometers north of Peshawar, in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, as trucks continued to throw sand and gravel aggregates into the dragon mouth, the river water was successfully introduced into the diversion tunnel, and the Mohmand Hydropower Station was successfully closed. Pakistani dignitaries, military representatives, Chinese and Pakistani media, project builders and others witnessed this milestone moment together.
Asim Rauf, the person in charge of the project owner and a senior official of Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority, attended the ceremony and expressed his affirmation of the professionalism and excellent capabilities displayed by China Energy Engineering Corporation in the construction of the project. He said that the project will significantly improve Pakistan's power supply capacity, effectively improve Pakistan's people's livelihood, and inject new impetus into Pakistan's economic development. The Pakistani government will continue to fully support the project construction and ensure that the project is completed and put into use as scheduled.
Pakistan Mohmand Hydropower Station is a flagship project for the Pakistani government to raise funds. The maximum dam is 213 meters high, the installed capacity is 800,000 kilowatts, and the 4 single -machine capacity of 4 single -machine capacity is 200,000 kilowatts. Function, the project will create nearly 6,000 local jobs during the peak construction period. After the project's production and operation, the average power generation will reach 2.862 billion kWh, and the new irrigation area will be 16,700 hectares. Each year, it will provide local people with 140 million cubic meters of drinking water, and the annual economic benefits will be about 2.58 billion yuan.
China Energy Construction Gezhouba No. 3 Company has continuously set new world records in the field of concrete panel dams. Among them, the maximum dam height of the Dashixia Hydropower Project under construction is 247 meters, which is the world's highest concrete panel dam; the completed Hubei Shuibuya Hydropower Station has a dam height of 233 meters, which is the world's second highest concrete panel dam; the Mohmand Hydropower Station under construction in Pakistan has a dam height of 213 meters, which is the highest concrete panel dam under construction abroad and the sixth highest in the world.
The site of the closure ceremony also set up a Chinese intangible cultural heritage "rammed earth" craft experience area, where senior Pakistani officials, media reporters and others learned about the development and changes of "rammed earth" and modern dam construction technology.