China Datang Corporation
Chinese power generation company
China Datang Corporation (CDT) is one of the five large-scale power generation enterprises in China, established on the basis of former State Power Corporation of China in 2002. It is a solely state-owned enterprise directly managed by the SASAC and is the experimental state-authorized investment and state shareholding enterprise ratified by the State Council.
Subsidiaries
Datang International Power Generation Company (大唐国际发电股份) is a core subsidiary company with approximately one third of the Group's thermal installed capacity.
Datang Renewable Power Company was listed on the Hong Kong Stock exchange in December 2010.
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