Jiangxi completes a new round of rural power grid transformation and upgrading ahead of schedule

On July 30, affected by the high temperatures for several days, the outdoor temperature in southern Jiangxi Province approached 40 degrees Celsius. However, Sun Guanfa and his family, villagers in Tantou Village, Zishan Town, Yudu County, Jiangxi Province, felt that this summer was quite cool.

"Thanks to the local rural power grid transformation, although we bought air conditioners a few years ago, the voltage was too low to use them at all and they became decorations. In 2018, the village looked forward to the transformation and upgrading of the rural power grid, and a new transformer was installed, and the voltage became stable immediately. Now when the weather gets hot, we quickly turn on the air conditioner, it’s really cool." Looking at the air conditioner blowing out cold air slowly, Sun Guanfa's face and heart were full of smiles.

Recently, it was learned from State Grid Jiangxi Electric Power Co., Ltd. that Jiangxi has achieved the "two rates and one household" goal of the new round (2016-2020) of rural power grid transformation and upgrading construction proposed by the National Development and Reform Commission two years ahead of schedule, laying a solid foundation for the comprehensive completion of the poverty alleviation task during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.

2016年以来，国家启动新一轮农村电网改造升级，江西电力高度重视，以加快城乡电力均等化进程、全面建成小康社会为出发点，坚持规划先行，投资大幅向农村配电网倾斜，2016~2018年，投资167.7亿元，江西省农村电网得到快速发展，县域电网联系薄弱问题全部解决，农村户均配变容量大幅提高，实现村村通动力电，电网长期“低电压”问题基本消除，农村电网供电能力和供电质量显著提升，有力保障江西省农村地区经济社会发展和乡村振兴用电需求。

Huawu, Huangsha Village, Yeping Township, Ruijin City, is a well-known "Red Army Village" known for the story of "Seventeen Pines". Due to war trauma, lack of resources, poor arable land and other reasons, Huawu is extremely poor, and half of the families are poor households. With the continuous implementation of the "Several Opinions of the State Council on Supporting the Revitalization and Development of the Former Central Soviet Areas in Southern Jiangxi" and the continuous deepening of targeted poverty alleviation work, new development opportunities have been brought to the villagers of Huawu. In 2015, the village was listed as a modern agricultural construction demonstration site in Ruijin City. Ruijin Power Supply Company fully supported the construction of the demonstration site and implemented the power grid transformation project, which effectively solved the electricity consumption problems of greenhouse vegetables, tobacco curing rooms, and pumping room facilities, improved the power supply capacity of the demonstration site, and injected new vitality for the villagers of Huawu to get out of poverty and become rich as soon as possible.

With the strong support of the power grid, today’s Chinese houses are everywhere.

In order to organically integrate the poverty alleviation of power grids in poverty-stricken areas with the construction and transformation of power grids in small towns (central villages) and villages, and give priority to solving the outstanding problems of power grids in poverty-stricken areas, Jiangxi Power has completed the transformation and upgrading of 3,270 small towns (central villages) and 3,126 villages with power grids. At the same time, in accordance with the principle of "centralized transformation, one-time completion", Jiangxi Province's poverty-stricken counties with prominent livelihood issues or ethnic minorities and old Red Army gathering areas are given priority as "whole town and village" pilot areas. From 2015 to 2017, the province invested a total of 2.156 billion yuan to carry out the construction and transformation of 148 rural power grids "whole town and village" distribution networks, so as to solve the problems of insufficient power supply capacity, "low voltage" and safety hazards of distribution networks in rural areas, especially in poverty-stricken areas.