This aerial photo taken on Dec. 20, 2023 shows a view of the China-built Thung Song-Songkhla 500kV Transmission Line Project in Phatthalung, Thailand. A China-built power transmission line project was inaugurated on Tuesday in Thailand's southern Phatthalung province after two years of construction.

 

Phatthalung, Thailand, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- A China-built power transmission line project was inaugurated on Tuesday in Thailand's southern Phatthalung province after two years of construction.

 

The Thung Song-Songkhla 500kV Transmission Line Project, known as the Thung Song Project, is the first 500kV Transmission Line in southern Thailand. The contracted section was undertaken by Henan Electric Power Transmission & Transformation Construction, spanning 105 km from Nakhon Si Thammarat Province in southern Thailand to Phatthalung Province.

 

There was a shortage of electricity in southern Thailand and the country is committed to developing the Southern Economic Corridor and will set up industrial parks in these provinces. So this project is crucial to improving the stability and reliability of the power system in southern Thailand and meeting the growing demand for electricity in these provinces, Boonma Phuchin, director of the Transmission System Construction Project for Independent Power Producers of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, said at the completion ceremony.

 

Source: Xinhua|Editor: huaxia

 

Full story: XINHUA 2023-12-21

 

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Describe 'CH built'

 

Project overseen by engineers from CH ?  Using local labor.  Using material from CH isn't strange, as most of the world's grid uses material from CH.

 

But if same as TH-ITA building overpasses & highways in TH, surely aren't built by workers from IT.

 

CH built anything certainly isn't a bad thing, as they seem to excel in most things infrastructure wise.  Even everyday product wise, if have a choice where something is made, I'll always pick CH over USA, UK/EU or TH.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

There was a shortage of electricity in southern Thailand and the country is committed to developing the Southern Economic Corridor and will set up industrial parks in these provinces.

So asked big brother to do it as Thailand doesn't have the skills?

8 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Describe 'CH built'

 

Project overseen by engineers from CH ?  Using local labor.  Using material from CH isn't strange, as most of the world's grid uses material from CH.

 

But if same as TH-ITA building overpasses & highways in TH, surely aren't built by workers from IT.

 

CH built anything certainly isn't a bad thing, as they seem to excel in most things infrastructure wise.  Even everyday product wise, if have a choice where something is made, I'll always pick CH over USA, UK/EU or TH.

 

CH means that EVERYTHING will have been Chinese  !

Imported Chinese labour as well, {apart from the tea boys  !}.
If you want to see the Quality of Chinese Construction, you only have to look at the 3 Gorges Dam, the Evergrande Housing infrastructure, to see what they leave out of the concrete  !

 

And DON'T forget the Debt Burden of Thailand to the CCP  !

 

ASEAN Countries are wise-ing up to the "Belt and Road Initiative", especially after Sri Lanka now owes SO much {$} to China that they have had to grant the Sri Lanka Port {which CCP so generously built for them} as a 99 year lease as a Military Base  !