Power Construction Corporation of China, branded as PowerChina, is a wholly State-owned company administered by the

State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission 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 ...

and part of the heavy and civil engineering construction industry. PowerChina consists of 779 companies. In 2020, PowerChina ranked 157 among

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companies and 41 among Top 500 Enterprises of China. PowerChina overseas brands include

Sinohydro Sinohydro ( Chinese: 中国水电; long form: 中国水利水电建设集团公司) is a Chinese state-owned hydropower engineering and construction company. In the 2012 Engineering News-Record Top 225 Global Contractors, a ranking by annual re ...

, HydroChina,

SEPCO SEPCO Electric Power Construction Corporation (commonly known as SEPCO) is a Chinese construction and engineering company that designs and builds power generation and transmission infrastructure. SEPCO1 (SEPCOI) and SEPCO2 (SEPCO No. 2) are wh ...

and SEPCO III. PowerChina has involvement in over 100 countries including involvement in projects such as * HydroChina Dawood Wind Power Project, Pakistan * Nam Ou river cascade dams, Laos * Dau Tieng Solar Power Project, Vietnam * Melaka Gateway, Malaysia * Lamu Coal Power Station, Kenya * Ayago Hydroelectric Power Station, Uganda * Merowe Dam, Sudan * Pwalugu Hydroelectric Power Station, Ghana * Pakistan Port Qasim Power Project * Zimbabwe-Zimbabwe Plant * Upgrade of Highway 2, Israel Involvement with projects within China includes the

Three Gorges Project The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. The Three Gorges Dam has been the w ...

, Zouxian Power Station, Longyuan Rudong Intertidal Wind Farm and the

Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway The Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway (or Jinghu high-speed railway, from its name in Mandarin) is a high-speed railway that connects two major economic zones in the People's Republic of China: the Bohai Economic Rim and the Yangtze Riv ...

. In November 2020, Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the PowerChina, as well as Chinese state media, announced the construction of a "super" dam on the

Yarlung Zangbo The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo () is the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is the longest river of Tibet and the fifth longest in China. The upper section is also called Da ...

, three times larger than the current largest hydroelectric project in the world, also Chinese, the

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