On January 12, local time, the Chinese Consulate General in Karachi, Pakistan, sent a letter of commendation on the Thar Block-I Integrated Coal Mine and Power Project, which highly appreciated the unity and commitment demonstrated by Shanghai Electric’s project team against the COVID-19 pandemic, tightened local security and other difficulties in 2021, and fully recognized the successful completion of several key tasks of the project.

To ensure the smooth and orderly progress of the project, the leadership of the Thar Block-I Integrated Coal Mine and Power Project has formulated and implemented strict pandemic prevention and control measures, and actively proceeded with the vaccination and booster shots against COVID-19 for employees to ensure that pandemic prevention and control and construction can be carried out properly at the same time. At the same time, the project department of Shanghai Electric Power Generation Engineering actively fulfills its social responsibility by donating funds, pandemic prevention materials and living materials to the local government and community, properly implementing land acquisition and relocation of residents and providing vocational skills training for the Pakistani employees, thus vigorously contributing to the development of local economy and citizens’ livelihood, receiving unanimous recognition from the local government and mainstream media alike. In addition, the project strictly followed the Safe Construction Rules and was awarded the 11th Outstanding Fire Fighting Practice Award by the Pakistan National Environment and Health Forum.

It is known that in 2021, all employees of the project endured heavy pressure to complete several important tasks due to the continued spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. The Thar Power Station project has successfully completed important tasks such as the roofing of No.1 cooling tower, successful box up of steam turbine, the completion of No.2 cooling tower’s structure, the installation of generator stator, and the successful hydraulic test of boilers No.1 and No.2. The coal mining project finished over 75% of the earth stripping construction; all heavy oil power stations were connected to the grid, and all 50 draining wells were put into operation.