| China 's heavy industry include energy, iron and steel, machinery and chemical industries. In 1999, the added value produced by heavy industry in state-owned enterprises and industrial enterprises above a certain size amounted to 1161.7 billion yuan. Among coal, oil and electric power, coal is the main source of energy. Grand basins include Datong in Shanxi, Kailuan in Hebei, Henan Pingdingshan, HUAIBEI in Anhui, Yanzhou in Shandong province, Xuzhou in Jiangsu, Jixi in Heilongjiang and Liaoning Tiefa-16 in all. In recent years, with the restructuring of the industrial system, economic growth in the coal companies reported their change of the type of intensity at the same time, diversified operations have grown rapidly. Now, the main coal mines in China have established 17000-diversified companies, the production value exceeding half the total coal production. The oil industry is distributed mainly in the oil field Daqing in Heilongjiang and Liaohe Oilfield in Liaoning, Shengli Oilfield in Shandong Province, Huabei Oilfield in Hebei and Dagang Oilfield in Tianjin. In recent years, three basins are rich in oil deposits were discovered in Tarim, Turpan-Hami, and Junggar basins. In addition to many major land oil and natural gas operations, a number of offshore operations are continuing in the Bohai Sea, and east and west of the South China Sea. Two new groups organized by the China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group and China Petrochemicals Group are the largest groups of its kind. The latter, whose business income in 1996, 38.9 billion dollars, ranks 62nd among the 500 largest conglomerates in the world. The energy power industry of China , including the updraft, hydro and nuclear, has grown rapidly. In 90 years, the installed capacity of China grew from 100 million kilowatt to 200 million kilowatt, and its energy production and installed capacity every two kept in second place in the world. There are 58 major stations hydro-electricity, which were completed or under construction in China, and 19 of them have more than one million kilowatt installed capacity each. The Ertan, stations hydro-electricity Three-Gorge River and Xiaolangdi Yang Tse Kiang, Lianyungang and technology projects nuclear energy Ling are under construction. The Qinshan Nuclear Power Station nuclear power plant in Zhejiang and in Guangdong Dayawan have been completed. The power grids of the country now cover all cities and most of its rural areas. The large iron and steel enterprises are distributed in Anshan, Tai-Yuan, Baotou, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Wuhan and Panzhihua. China currently has 24 iron and steel enterprises which produce one million or more tons of steel annually each, including the Shanghai Baoshan Iron & Steel grouped again the organization. Some large iron and steel enterprises use advanced technologies and have improved their team to produce a number of types of steel upper class, such as plates of cold rolled steel, steel sheets of cold-rolled silicon steel plates and zinc-plated steel pipes. Today, China has the capacity to produce 1,400 varieties of steel more than 20,000 specifications. In addition, self-reliance of China rolled steel has reached 90 percent. |