China Guodian Corporation (Guodian; ) is one of the five largest power producers in China, administrated by

SASAC The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) is a special commission of the People's Republic of China, directly under the State Council. It was founded in 2003 through the consolidation of variou ...

for the

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. It is engaged in

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and

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and

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for

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supply in

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and

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, and

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, as well as in

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. Installed capacity of company power plants is exceeding 100,000

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. On August 28, 2017,

announced that China Guodian Corporation and

Shenhua Group Shenhua Group Corporation Limited was a Chinese state-owned mining and energy company. Shenhua Group was founded in October 1995 under the auspices of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It was the largest coal-producing compan ...

will be jointly restructured. Shenhua Group will become

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and will absorb China Guodian Corporation.

Subsidiaries

A summary of the corporate structure may be found on page 4 of the document.

Listed subsidiaries

* Guodian Power Development Company Limited (SSE: 600795), which is listed on the

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, is the Group's major thermal power

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. *

China Longyuan Power China Longyuan Power Group Limited (), or Longyuan Power, is the largest wind power producer in China and Asia. It is mainly engaged in designing, developing, managing and operating wind power plants, and selling the electricity generated by its ...

(SEHK 00916) - runs the group's wind-farms. *

Guodian Changyuan Electric Power Guodian may refer to: *Guodian Chu Slips: a collection of classical Chinese texts found in the Guodian tombs in Jingmen, Hubei * China Guodian Corporation: a state-owned power generation enterprise in China *GD Power Development Company: a subsidia ...

(SZSE: 000966) * Inner Mongolia Pingzhuang Energy (SZSE: 000780) *

Ningxia Younglight Chemicals Ningxia (,; , ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region in the Northwest China, northwest of the China, People's ...

(SZSE: 000635) * Guodian Technology & Environment Group (SEHK: 01296)

Unlisted subsidiaries

Guodian United Power is responsible for development and manufacture of wind turbines. They mainly producing onshore wind turbines of size 1500 kW (designed by the German development company aerodyn Energiesysteme GmbH). In addition there a new turbines 2MW, 3MW and a 6MW offshore turbine in development. They are at the top wind turbine manufacturers by annual market share (Nomber 8 in 2012). Old Mutual – Guodian is a joint venture life insurance company.

Insurance business

China Guodian Corporation is setting up a

property insurance Property insurance provides protection against most risks to property, such as fire, theft and some weather damage. This includes specialized forms of insurance such as fire insurance, flood insurance, earthquake insurance, home insurance, or bo ...

company in Beijing to diversify business into other areas, trying to aid its move towards becoming a more comprehensive energy conglomerate. China Guodian will hold the majority stake in the proposed new insurance company, whose registered capital is expected to reach 1 billion yuan ($146 million). In the first half of 2008, China Guodian invested in a

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company. Later in September, the group purchased a 19.6 percent stake in a city commercial bank in

Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang (; ; Mandarin: ), formerly known as Shimen and romanized as Shihkiachwang, is the capital and most populous city of China’s North China's Hebei Province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about southwest of Beijin ...

, capital city of Hebei province, becoming the bank's largest shareholder. Prior to China Guodian, the State Grid Corp and several other energy groups also expanded their businesses to the

financial sector Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, accountancy companies, ...

. They have established a number of insurance companies and hold stakes in

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and

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Equity investments

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(14%)

References

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