Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and provincial governor, led a team to the project sites marking out the model for cooperation between the central and western regions in the new era.

Ningxia, a major energy production base with rich coal deposits and abundant wind, solar and other green resources, is seen as a fitting partner for Hunan, which has an external energy dependence rate of up to 80 percent. The latest power transmission project receives strong support from the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration and the State Grid, being included in the energy development plan under the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period and becoming one of its nine key inter-provincial and inter-regional power transmission channels.