POWERCHINA holds public open day for Pakistan power plant

POWERCHINA held an online livestreaming public open day activity on Oct 22 for the Port Qasim Coal-Fired Power Plant in Pakistan.

The livestreaming event was jointly with the Urdu channel of Asia and the African Regional Language Program Center, China Media Group (CMG).

As of 8 pm on Oct 22, the event had attracted more than 34,000 people to watch the livestreaming.

The Port Qasim Coal-Fired Power Plant in Pakistan, which was the main subject of the public open day, is the first large-scale energy project in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the largest overseas investment project by POWERCHINA.

During the COVID-19 epidemic, the power plant coordinated its prevention and control measures for the novel coronavirus outbreak with its production and operations. Power generation from the plant has increased by nearly 20 percent since the outbreak earlier this year.

As of Oct 20, the cumulative power generation this year has exceeded 7.5 billion kilowatt hours, providing power energy guarantees for Pakistan's fight against the epidemic and ensuring people's livelihoods.

Hosted by a CMG anchor -- using live links and one-question-one-answer methods -- Pakistani workers were invited to tell their own growth experiences and perceptions about the working, living and training conditions in the power plant.

Pakistani employees of the Port Qasim Coal-Fired Power Plant in Pakistan take part in the livestreaming. [Photo/POWERCHINA]

Pakistani netizens actively participated in the livestreaming to leave messages and spoke highly of POWERCHINA and the power plant.