China Huadian Corporation

China Huadian Corporation Ltd. is a centrally administered state-owned power-generation enterprise formed during China’s national power-sector reform at the end of 2002. The group’s official profile says its principal businesses are electricity production, heat production and supply, development of coal and other primary energy resources related to power, and professional technical services. [1] China Huadian is supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and is described by its official website as a large central enterprise. [2]

The group’s operating structure includes power and heat, coal, science and engineering, industrial finance, and international business. [1] Its English-language site identifies power generation as the pillar business and separately presents coal, finance, science and technology, and international business activities. [3] China Huadian’s 2025 company profile reported that, as of the first half of 2025, its power-and-heat generation fleet had total installed capacity of approximately 250 million kilowatts, including more than 100 million kilowatts of renewable capacity, while clean-energy capacity represented 57.5% of its domestic installed capacity. [1]

In the partnership context relevant to this database, GE and China Huadian announced a $100 million joint venture in 2011 called Huadian GE Aero Gas Turbine Equipment Co., Ltd. [4] GE’s announcement said China Huadian would own the majority share and that the venture would develop distributed-energy combined-heat-and-power projects using aeroderivative gas turbines and related services. [4] The National Energy Administration’s account identified the ownership split as 51% for Huadian and 49% for GE and described the venture’s scope as production, sales, and technical R&D for aeroderivative gas-turbine power systems. [5] China Huadian is the parent energy group, whereas HDGE is the separate joint-venture entity created for that technology and market-development purpose. [4]