en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 16, Fuqing Nuclear Power, the nuclear power base with the largest installed capacity in operation in Fujian Province, China, saw its cumulative safe power generation surpass 400 billion kilowatt-hours. The annual power generation capacity of Fuqing Nuclear Power's six units exceeds 50 billion kilowatt-hours, equivalent to saving 15.27 million tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 40.02 million tons annually, which is equivalent to adding a forest area of nearly 113,000 hectares each year.
Twenty years of golden years, writing a chapter of struggle; twenty years with the original aspiration shining like a torch, illuminating the path forward. From starting on the mudflats by the East China Sea to building the largest nuclear power base in Fujian Province in terms of installed capacity, from the landing of the first Hualong One reactor to supporting the steady and far-reaching batch construction of "national key assets," from pioneering Party-building joint committees for major projects to the continuous safe and reliable operation of six units, Fuqing Nuclear Power has always kept in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions to "adhere to safe development and innovative development, persist in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and comprehensively enhance the core competitiveness of the nuclear industry." With the care and support of governments at all levels and all sectors of society, and under the strong leadership of CNNC and China Nuclear Power, it has forged a high-quality development path where responsibility shapes the soul, safety is the foundation, innovation is the wing, and excellence leads to lasting success, writing the Fuqing nuclear imprint of "Striving for Excellence and Surpassing."
Fuqing Nuclear Power has always taken the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives for the nuclear industry and CNNC as its fundamental guide, integrating safe development and innovative development throughout the entire process of reform and development, delivering a Fuqing nuclear answer sheet worthy of the times and the cause.
Facing the opportunities and challenges of "one-time planning, continuous construction" for six units, the Fuqing Nuclear Power project innovatively implemented an EPC model featuring "owner-led, multi-party collaboration, and integrated management," creating an industry record of continuous construction of six units over 14 years without interruption. Implementing CNNC's "Six Controls and Seven Zeros" management philosophy, strengthening the owner's primary responsibility, coordinating resources from design, equipment, and construction parties, building a full-cycle safety management system that is "vertical to the bottom, horizontal to the edge," optimizing management measures, and innovating construction techniques. With a pioneering spirit of daring to be first and a hardworking attitude of not waiting or relying on others, they achieved the "opening sprint" of completing excavation from mountain cutting to nuclear island foundation pit negative excavation in 9.5 months. The construction period for a single unit was gradually shortened from 72 months to 58 months, a "continuous acceleration." From 2014 to 2017, Units 1-4 were put into commercial operation successively, achieving the "steady ascent" of commissioning one nuclear power unit per year. The world's first Hualong One reactor completed construction in a total duration of 68.7 months, setting the best performance for the construction of a first-of-a-kind third-generation nuclear power plant globally, forging the "Fuqing Speed" characterized by both safety and innovation.
In 2015, the world's first Hualong One reactor landed on the shores of Xinghua Bay, moving China's third-generation nuclear power technology from blueprint to practice. All builders collaborated vigorously and bravely scaled new heights, constructing a full-cycle, full-element, closed-loop major project management system. They innovatively applied mechanisms such as project management sand table simulations, TOP10 risk management, leadership coordination groups, and joint commissioning to quickly and collaboratively resolve major issues. They promoted key technologies like modular construction and outer dome steel formwork, completing over 700 technical challenges. In 2018, the Hualong One demonstration project entered its peak construction period. Under the coordination of the CNNC Party Group, the Party-building joint committee mechanism for major projects emerged, establishing the Hualong One Party-building Joint Committee, forming a cross-unit, cross-field, cross-chain Party-building work pattern and collaborative攻坚 system. Innovating "committee members into branches, Party members into teams," a large number of "posts, zones, teams" emerged, anchored to urgent and difficult problems on the project site. Party members took the lead and charged ahead in key positions, important tasks, and technical breakthroughs, with the Party flag always flying high on the front line, achieving a "double harvest and double demonstration" in major project construction and strengthening Party leadership, exploring a "Fuqing Model" where high-quality Party building leads high-quality development of major projects.
Nuclear safety is the lifeline of nuclear power. Fuqing Nuclear Power deeply implements General Secretary Xi Jinping's nuclear safety concept of "rational, coordinated, and balanced," building a safety barrier with two decades of consistent rigor, caution, meticulousness, and an uncompromising commitment to zero failure. It has built a full-chain nuclear safety responsibility system that is "horizontal to the edge, vertical to the bottom, and responsibility assigned to individuals,"贯穿 the concept of "prevention first, defense in depth," and established a five-party coordination mechanism of "regulatory and supervisory joint efforts, internal supervision linkage, production department joint construction, collaborative unit joint meetings, and external pairing joint hands." It has strengthened experience feedback and human performance management system construction, promoted safety production standardization, hazard investigation and governance, and nuclear safety culture assessment, deeply embedding the group's "863 Basic Action Essentials" and the ten principles of nuclear safety culture into all personnel and the entire process. Aiming for WANO excellent performance, it has deeply promoted excellent performance management, innovated equipment reliability management, continuously optimized operational strategies, and comprehensively enhanced personnel skill levels. Unit 1 has operated continuously and safely for over 4,000 days, multiple units have been awarded the title of "Gold Medal Unit" by China Nuclear Power, and the company has been recognized as a National Safety Culture Construction Demonstration Enterprise. Through twenty years of trials and tribulations, Fuqing Nuclear Power has cumulatively generated over 400 billion kilowatt-hours of safe electricity, forging the "Fuqing Performance" of unit safe operation through day-to-day perseverance.
"Key core technologies cannot be begged for, bought, or borrowed." Over the past twenty years, Fuqing Nuclear Power has adhered to innovation-driven development, building a systematic and comprehensive scientific and technological innovation system, leading to a comprehensive leap in overall scientific and technological strength and core competitiveness. It has established an innovation system centered on the Technical Committee, synergized with academician workstations and skill master studios, set up 16 scientific research teams, strengthened "core strengthening and broad collaboration," and promoted the deep integration of "industry, academia, research, and application." It has integrated the tackling of major special projects with talent team building, with over 520 scientific research projects implemented, cultivating a high-level scientific and technological talent team represented by "Great Country Craftsmen," winners of the "Peng Shilu Nuclear Power Innovation Award," and group young talents. Digital and intelligent transformation has been solidly advanced, building the industry's first plant-wide 5G production network, implementing 34 intelligent applications including a plant-wide real-time digital twin system, achieving 25 first-of-a-kind new technology applications, 289 invention patents, and 1,195 authorizations. It has led or participated in the compilation of 71 national, industry, and enterprise standards, and won 71 provincial/ministerial-level or higher scientific and technological awards. It has received honors such as the China Patent Excellence Award, the Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions, Fujian Province Green Factory, and the First Prize of Fujian Province Science and Technology Progress Award, and was successfully included in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's 5G Factory Directory. With the power of innovation, it has created the "Fuqing Benchmark," injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of China's nuclear power.
Achievements are made by talent, and careers are expanded by talent. Fuqing Nuclear Power has always adhered to the principle that "talent is the primary resource," combining investment in people with investment in things. Focusing on technical攻坚 in key areas and core talent reserve needs, it has built a four-level "Ronghe" (Integrated Nuclear) talent梯队 system, innovated a dual guarantee model of "performance rewards + team incentives," and established a three-dimensional evaluation system of "production contribution + scientific research innovation + talent cultivation," guiding high-level talents to focus on their main responsibilities and lead in overcoming difficulties. The full-chain talent management mechanism of "selection, cultivation, utilization, and retention" has been continuously improved, innovating the training model of "mentoring, on-the-job training, skill competitions, and practical历练." National and provincial/ministerial-level skill master studios and training bases have been established, integrating safety norms and innovation capabilities throughout the entire talent growth process. The Hualong One International Training Center has been established, possessing full-process independent training capabilities, and has cumulatively exported over 700 technical and skilled backbone personnel to peers. Through twenty years of cultivation, it has nurtured over 300 personnel with senior technical titles, one person selected as a "Great Country Craftsman," and over 20 people awarded titles such as "National Technical Expert" and "Central Enterprise Technical Expert," cultivating a "Fuqing Iron Army" that is willing to endure hardship, good at taking responsibility, and capable of fighting tough battles, striving for excellence on the journey of nuclear power development.
Over the past twenty years, Fuqing Nuclear Power has always inherited and promoted the spirit of "Two Bombs, One Satellite," the nuclear industry spirit of "Four Everything," and blended it with the culture of "Love to Fight Will Win," nurturing the Fuqing nuclear culture of "Striving for Excellence and Surpassing." It has embedded Party-building guidance into the entire process of safe operation, technical攻坚, and overhaul support, promoting the deepening and extension of Party-building joint construction, forging Party-building brands such as "Excellent Operation," "Maintenance Iron Army," and "Party Building + Overhaul." Special work on work style construction and capability improvement has been persistently carried out, establishing a mechanism for "profiling" cadre work styles, and solidifying the safety foundation with a strict and practical work style. The "Concentric Lighthouse" cultural system has been built to凝聚 people's hearts, the "Struggle for Happiness" concept motivates all staff to move in the same direction, and three major working mechanisms of "Empowering Achievements, Growth Services, Strengthening Foundation and Innovation" have been established, allowing the power of struggle to resonate with the Fuqing nuclear culture. It actively participates in the construction of local livelihood projects such as the Guanyinshan Tunnel, Guanyinpu Bridge, and Beilin Reservoir drinking water project, promoting enterprise-local integration and win-win development. It has built a nuclear science exhibition hall, created science popularization brands such as "Hualong Baby's First Lesson of the School Year," "Fellow Villagers Explore Nuclear Power," and "A Touch of Nuclear Blue," actively promoting nuclear science knowledge into schools, textbooks, and communities, cumulatively reaching over a million audience members. It has been awarded titles such as National Patriotic Education Demonstration Base, National Scientist Spirit Education Base, National Science Popularization Education Base, and National Best Practice Enterprise for Corporate Culture. Each medal reflects the cultural底色 of Fuqing Nuclear Power's "Striving for Excellence and Surpassing."
At twenty years of age, in the prime of life, a new journey begins a new chapter. Currently, with the full implementation of the national "15th Five-Year Plan" and the deepening of the "dual carbon" goals, nuclear power, as a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient baseload energy source, is facing unprecedented development opportunities. Standing at a new starting point, Fuqing Nuclear Power closely focuses on the themes of safe development and innovative development, centering on the "325 Strategy," with a more spirited posture and a more pragmatic work style, striving to write a new chapter of high-quality development in the new era.
Fuqing Nuclear Power takes the new "Three Transformations" of intensification, standardization, and digitalization/intelligence as its strategic path to comprehensively enhance core competitiveness and modern governance levels. It is deeply promoting intensification, focusing on building an intensive, efficient, resource-optimal, and synergistically empowering modern management system, providing institutional guarantees for achieving high-quality development at a higher level; comprehensively deepening standardization, promoting the deep integration of excellent performance and standard management, solidifying the best practices of Hualong One into industry standards and Chinese standards, and fully aligning the management system with international levels; accelerating the realization of digitalization and intelligence, empowering safe production with 5G, artificial intelligence, and big data, creating a "shadow unit" supporting preview and verification, enhancing intelligent monitoring and scientific decision-making levels, and accelerating the construction of a smart, safe, efficient, and reliable first-class nuclear power base.
Building the "Hualong One Benchmark," being the leader of China's self-developed third-generation nuclear power technology, a demonstrator of global nuclear power cooperation, and a steadfast defender of the national calling card, continuously deepening technological iteration and experience沉淀, comprehensively demonstrating the safety, reliability, and economic viability of Hualong One, supporting batch construction and international promotion, making the national calling card even brighter; building the "Operational Plant Benchmark," being a steadfast guardian of nuclear safety, a demonstration leader of excellent operation, and a participant in setting industry standards, always treating nuclear safety as a "matter of national importance," continuously improving the nuclear safety governance system, maintaining long-term stable and efficient unit operation, promoting sustained WANO performance leadership, and safeguarding national energy security with actual achievements.
On the new journey, Fuqing Nuclear Power is fully committed to building the "Five Fuqings" development pattern, integrating the individual into the collective, serving the overall situation with one domain, and striving to enable every Fuqing nuclear person to find value and achieve growth in the grand scheme of the times. Consolidating the foundation, building a higher-level Safe Fuqing, making safety the most distinctive底色 of Fuqing; activating momentum, building a more dynamic Innovative Fuqing, ensuring long-term controllable operational costs through independent and controllable technology, making innovation a powerful engine driving Fuqing's development; fulfilling the mission, building a more sustainable Green Fuqing, playing the role of a main force in clean energy, contributing wisdom to achieving the "dual carbon" goals and promoting modernization featuring harmonious coexistence between man and nature; strengthening the foundation and consolidating the base, building a more powerful Open Fuqing, contributing to the international development of China's nuclear power and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" through two-way empowerment and multi-party win-win situations;凝聚 hearts and gathering strength, building a more striving and surpassing Happy Fuqing, supporting the construction of a world-class enterprise with a high-quality talent team, enabling every Fuqing nuclear person to achieve a wonderful life and realize the happiness of struggle in the great journey of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Twenty years of sharpening the sword to strengthen nuclear power, the original aspiration remains as firm as a rock; on the new journey of safety and innovation, the mission rests on our shoulders. Looking back, Fuqing Nuclear Power has kept in mind earnest instructions, forging national key assets with responsibility, commitment, wisdom, and sweat; looking forward, the company will take its 20th anniversary as a new starting point, under the strong leadership of CNNC and China Nuclear Power, inherit the red gene, continue the spiritual lineage, forge ahead with determination and courage, strive to write an even more brilliant tomorrow, and work tirelessly for the construction of a strong nuclear industry nation!
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