China's Power Industry at Crossroad – 2006 is a significant year for China's power industry. As power sector reform progressing, China is now facing the unprecedented challenges. Market dynamics is more complex than ever, liberalization is accelerating, competition is getting severe, and the industry is now at crossroad. How to secure & stabilize the progress achieved? How to alleviate conflictions and adverse effects encountered? How to implement the effective action plan at right time, right place through right approach?

The pleasant news is abundant power supply. The power shortage crisis has eventually come to the end which provides solid foundation for adjusting strategy and development direction. Power industry restructuring and integration will be one of the emphases of the government which presents both threats and opportunities to industry players. It poses challenging technical and operational difficulties but also provides broad space for international cooperation.

Nuclear power has shown delightful progress. The selection of 3rd generation reactor projects have come to the closure, which is a milestone toward China's long term goal, to be self-sufficient in reactor design and construction. Meanwhile, more efficient, economical, safe and sustainable fuel cycle & related techniques will be the China's unswerving focus.

There are 3 renewable energy related policies and guidelines released in 2006, fully demonstrate Chinese government's recognition and determination to promote renewable energy. Renewable energy has prosperous future and develops fairly fasts. However, more efforts should be devoted to clear the obstacles. Although enrich resource and prevalent technology commercialization provide huge potential for developing wind power, absence of effective pricing mechanism discouraged investor's interest. Apparently, bottleneck of solar power industry is polysilicon supply. What are China's strategies to mitigate and overcome it? As the biggest agriculture country, developing Biomass & Biofuel have enormous social and economical benefits in China. There are great room for international cooperation on the related project management and financing.

For the 3rd year, the focus of China Power & Alternative Energy Summit 2007 is to seize the pulse of China's power sector reform, in-depth examine nuclear and renewable energy industries, present associated solutions and forecast future trend. It is a genius platform and opportunities for the leading decision-makers around the world and top level government officials involved in the energy industry.