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Reporter: The new wind farm is located in the northeastern province of Jilin, one of the most suitable places in the country to exploit this type of energy source. Although it's 100 megawatt capacity means it's no giant in terms of power generation, it did bring China a new partner - Australia. Mark Kelleher is managing director of Roaring 40s Renewable Energy, an affiliated company of Australian based Tasmania Hydro, which is one of the new plant’s investors. He says what attracted them most was the support for renewable energy from the Chinese government.

T5 "The Chinese government has set very impressive goals of renewable energy, with the target of 15% of electricity generated from renewable energy by 2020. And of this wind power to be at least 30 gigawatts by that time. With the strong set of supportive policies in place, the government can be confident in achieving this goal. Roaring 40s feel honored to be able to make its contribution to this important strategy through its valued partnership with companies like China Datang Corporation."

While coal continues to account for over 70 percent of the nation's energy, it's seen as unsustainable for future development. For this reason China has begun an intense and enthusiastic promotion of renewable energy. This in turn has led to international industry leaders beginning to take note of this potential market.

China and Australia initiated cooperation in renewable energy in 2005 and the newly established Wind Farm is the first fruit of that cooperation framework. Zhai Ruoyu, president of China Datang Corporation, said at Tuesday's inauguration ceremony that it was a good start for future development.

The successful launch of Shuangliao wind farm will encourage us to speed up implementation of our global strategy on developing new energies. We welcome and are willing to carry out deeper and wider ranging cooperation with Australian companies like Tasmania Hydro."

According to some studies, China has the potential to produce over one thousand gigawatts of power from wind -one quarter of them land based and the rest in offshore wind farms. Yet China only had one gigawatt of installed wind power from 44 wind farms by the end of 2005 - just point two percent of total national electricity production. This means that only by increasing output by over 1 gigawatt every year on average can China reach its goal over the coming decade and half .

Xiaoyu, CRI news.