(Rat-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month), January 16, 1997, the State Power Corporation was founded.

1997 1 16 National Electric Power Company was established, marking the reform of the management system of China's power industry has officially entered the implementation phase. State Power Corporation, funded by the State Council set up in the form of wholly state-owned, operating economic entities of the inter-regional power transmission and unified enterprise legal management of the national grid, according to the operation and management of the enterprise group mode.