China Huadian Concludes 2025–2026 Heating Season with Reliable and Smart Services
As the heating season in northern China comes to an end, China Huadian Corporation has successfully wrapped up its 2025–2026 heating service period. This 213-day campaign of providing warmth covered 23 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country, with a total heating supply of 360 million gigajoules and a heating area of 830 million square metres, delivering safe, efficient and stable heating services to safeguard people’s livelihoods.
China Huadian has intensified hidden danger inspections and rectifications to ensure safe and stable heating. As the largest power generation and heating enterprise in Xinjiang, its regional branch completed 2,662 standard summer maintenance projects for the heating network before the season started, promoted the renewal and renovation of heating equipment and facilities, overhauled 755 heat exchange stations, inspected 53 kilometres of pipelines and upgraded electrical facilities at 130 heat exchange stations.
In Shandong, local heating subsidiaries of China Huadian expanded heating coverage and strengthened technological transformation. The “Lai Heat into Tai” long-distance heating project of Laicheng Power Plant was put into operation, covering 5 million square metres in urban Tai’an. Shilizhuang Power Plant took the opportunity of the overhaul of its No.9 unit to fully upgrade key equipment such as heating steam pipelines and hydraulic control valves, while Longkou Company implemented turbine cylinder cutting transformation to greatly improve the unit’s heating capacity. In Shijiazhuang, Huadian Heating Group renewed 18.5 kilometres of main pipelines, inspected 433 heating tunnels, and renovated heat exchange stations in 54 old communities and 88 kilometres of community pipelines to consolidate the guarantee line for people’s heating.
The corporation has deepened the construction of “smart heating networks”, realizing precise temperature control through digital and intelligent empowerment. In Harbin, Harbin No.3 Power Plant relied on a “smart heating” platform, with 1,336 remote temperature measurement points to real-time monitor temperature changes at the end of the pipeline network and accurately adjust heating supply as the temperature drops.
In Shandong, Weifang Power Plant built a “heat load prediction model” using artificial intelligence technology, integrating historical operation data of the heating network, weather conditions and users’ heating habits to improve the comprehensive benefits of the heating season. In Xinjiang, Gaochang Thermal Power, which undertakes 84% of Turpan’s heating area, has realized “unattended + remote control” at 63 heat exchange stations, greatly improving the efficiency of heating network balance regulation. In Inner Mongolia, Donghua Company built a full-coverage real-time temperature sensing network with more than 3,000 indoor temperature collection devices, implementing differentiated and time-phased precise heating regulation to achieve a win-win situation between heating quality and energy conservation.
China Huadian has promoted the extension of heating services from “responding to complaints upon receipt” to “addressing problems before complaints arise”. Its Inner Mongolia branch organized multiple volunteer teams to include special users such as the elderly living alone, military martyrs’ families and nursing homes in key care lists, achieving 100% follow-up visits for key users and government hotline complaints. Qudong Company carried out an intensive “home visit for warmth” campaign, visiting 2,748 households and providing 113 on-site services and indoor renovation plans. Shijiazhuang Huadian Heating Group implemented grid-based management across 30 areas, adopting an innovative “intelligent AI + manual customer service” model to further improve handling efficiency. The corporation will continue to optimize heating services and technological transformation to better meet people’s demand for a warm life.
