MOST has incorporated the key project of “Solar Thermal Power Generation Technology and Systematic Demonstration” into 863 Program of the 11th Five Year Plan, providing great support to solar thermal power generation technology.

The demonstration project, jointly supported by MOST, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be located in Badaling Town, Yanqing County of Beijing. With 1.5MW installed capacity; the power station will provide scientists from both home and abroad with basic experimental facilities for the research of the technology of high-temperature solar energy conversion, serving as an important research base of solar thermal power generation technology in China.