Recently, the China Electricity Council announced the electric power industrial heritage list under the theme "Carrying Forward the Industrial Torch, Illuminating the Path of Spirit," and the Fengman Hydropower Station and Huanren Hydropower Station, constructed by Sinohydro Bureau 1 under Power Construction Corporation of China (POWERCHINA), were included. They have become typical representatives showcasing the historical inheritance of safeguarding the "industrial torch" across the national electric power industry, and demonstrating the striving course of power industry pioneers in forging industrial monuments, serving national development, and promoting energy technology innovation.

The Huanren Hydropower Station is located in the Hunjiang River basin at the foot of Wunü Mountain, a World Cultural Heritage site. It is the first cascade hydropower station on the main stream of the Hunjiang River. Construction officially began on August 1, 1958, and the first turbine-generator unit was completed and began generating electricity in 1968. It is the first case in China and the only in-service gravity buttress dam hydropower station in the country, and was selected for the sixth batch of the National Industrial Heritage List. As a large hydropower station independently designed, independently constructed and installed, and equipped entirely with domestically produced equipment, Sinohydro Bureau 1 was established for the construction of the Huanren Hydropower Station, and the station thus became the birthplace of Sinohydro Bureau 1. On March 12, 1958, Sinohydro Bureau 1 (formerly the Huanren Hydropower Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power) was officially inaugurated at Paoziyan in Huanren County, Liaoning Province. The first generation of builders of Sinohydro Bureau 1 cut through mountains and split rocks, drilled and excavated, turning the Huanren Hydropower Station into a brilliant pearl set upon the Hunjiang River.

The original dam of the Fengman Hydropower Station was first built in 1937, and the first unit generated electricity in 1943. It was the world's first project in hydropower history to feature a "100-meter-class high dam, 10-billion-class reservoir capacity, and million-class installed capacity." Once known at home and abroad as "Asia's No. 1 large hydropower project" and the earliest large hydropower station built in China, it is an epitome of the dramatic transformation and development history of China's hydropower and is hailed as the "Mother of China's Hydropower." Since participating in 2015 in the comprehensive treatment (reconstruction) project of the Fengman Hydropower Station, Sinohydro Bureau 1 has successively undertaken projects including the civil works and pressure steel pipe fabrication and installation for the dam powerhouse dam section and stilling basin, the risk-elimination and reinforcement project for the perimeter wall of the production control building, the left-bank revetment project of the spillway and diversion tunnel, the sand and gravel extraction area remediation project of the station's comprehensive treatment (reconstruction) project, and the temporary land acquisition reclamation project. During construction, Sinohydro Bureau 1 worked in unity and cooperation and overcame difficulties, joining with multiple units to pioneer the "key technology for reconstruction engineering under the mutual influence of the new and old dams of the Fengman Hydropower Station," successfully solving the challenge of mutual interference between the construction and demolition of the new and old dams at a closest distance of only 10 meters, achieving a smooth transition from the retirement of the old dam to the commissioning of the new dam, creating an engineering miracle, and being selected for the National Quality Engineering Gold Award.

From the banks of the Hunjiang River to the shores of the Songhua River, from being rooted in Northeast China to going global, over the past 67 years Sinohydro Bureau 1 started from arduous beginnings, grew through overcoming difficulties, and has independently built or participated in the construction of more than a thousand national and local key projects in the fields of energy and power, infrastructure, and water resources and environment at home and abroad. At the same time, closely following the national "Belt and Road" Initiative to go global, its footprint has spread across 26 overseas countries, writing a glorious chapter in China's hydropower cause with wisdom and sweat.

Safeguarding the roots of the industry and carrying forward the cultural genes, the selection of the two hydropower stations is both a weighty honor and a profound responsibility. Taking this selection as an opportunity, Sinohydro Bureau 1 will continue to carry forward the POWERCHINA spirit of "constant self-improvement and the courage to surpass," enhance the cultural core of the Bureau, drive development through innovation, and forge ahead with solid work, continuously contributing POWERCHINA wisdom and POWERCHINA solutions to promoting the high-quality development of the national energy cause and advancing the goal of national green energy transition.