Nation to sign wind turbine pact

China will buy 1,000 wind turbines from South Korea's only wind turbine maker, Unison, over the next five years, in a clear indication of the mainland's major push to enhance the use of renewable energy.

Liaoning province's Fuxin city administration will sign a preliminary agreement with Unison in Seoul today, the South Korean company spokesman Kim Jong Min said in Seoul, Bloomberg reported.

Unison may start supplying the 2-mW turbines next year and may build a 20-billion-won plant in China to produce them locally, Kim said.