Is it true that china open a new power station every 3 days to keep up with a growing economy?

Answer 1

Not even the Chinese with all their eager workers can build a completely new power station in a week !! I do understand however, that they keep putting up new booster stations, or power plants at a very fast rate. These are powered by coal, all of their plants use this fossil fuel, one can only imagine how much pollution and greenhouse gases are given off by these plants.. Their .industrial output has increased so much that they require these plants to enable the factories to continue running.
I like the Chinese people as individuals, but for a nation that lives under a communist regime, they appear to have embraced capitalist economic strategy rather too well.

Answer 2

Seventy per cent of China's energy needs are met by coal, and every week to 10 days another coal-fired power plant opens somewhere in China, adding to the country's environmental woes. Meanwhile, China is the world's second-largest consumer of oil, behind the United States.

Answer 3

It would be dependent on the size of the power station vs. power plant. If you are talking power sub-station then yes it's possible for them to do this. However, if you are talking power plant then that would be virtually impossible. Power sub-stations can be built and put on line in about 72 hours, A Power plant takes years to build.