Johannesburg journalist Li Jianmin: South African public enterprise minister Ma Lv announces 21 days, national power company will in the Gauteng Province to build a new solar power station, in order to promote clean energy development in South africa.

According to the South African media reports, Ma Lv says, this project is the South African government to implement green economic agreement one of major move, helps to promote clean energy development in South Africa, and created lots of employment opportunities. He said, South Africa for the development of clean energy has made significant efforts in South Africa, including the Northern Cape Province of Upington built power capacity of 100 MW of solar power plants, as well as in South Western Cape province to build a power generating capacity of 100 megawatts of wind power plant.

The South African national power company CEO Brian said that day, the company has developed a long-term energy-saving emission reduction strategy, its a pressing matter of the moment is to promote power industry transformation to reduce exhaust emissions. Solar power projects is an important part of this strategy, and is expected to gradually replace coal-fired power station in South Africa 's leading position in the energy industry. It is reported, the solar power station projects every year can be reduced about 2845 tons of carbon emissions.

The South African government departments, entrepreneur, labor organizations and community-based organizations, signed in Cape Town on November 17th a green economic agreement. This Agreement for a period of 10 years, aims to encourage the development of green economy, and to create opportunity of 300000 obtain employment. Green economic agreement aims to address the challenge of climate change, for the South African transport, biofuels, manufacturing industry, construction industry, renewable energy power generation and other related industry development policy.