Power problems exposed by weather

Power authorities should reconsider the design of the country's electricity transmission network in light of the lessons learned during the havoc of the recent snowstorms, industry insiders said yesterday on the sidelines of the CPPCC.

"The electricity supply network is the issue that I am most concerned about," Lu Qizhou, head of China Power Investment Corporation, one of the country's largest power producers, and a newly elected member of the CPPCC, said.

He said in addition to improving the main lines of the national power grid, authorities should also strengthen the lines in rural areas.