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Beijing sends workers on leave to save power
Employees from 962 Beijing-based industrial enterprises have started their paid leave this week as the city enters the hottest time of the year. Altogether 4,689 businesses will arrange week-long summer vacations for their employees in the coming four weeks, a spokesman with the Beijing municipal government said Tuesday. According to a document issued by the municipal government, these businesses are allowed to adopt a temporary six-day week schedule in the coming fall to offset the holidays taken and catch up with their original production plan. The spokesman said the summer leave is designed to ease a power crunch, which has intensified as heatwave bakes the city and most parts of China in recent weeks. Beijing Electric Power Corp has predicted the 58,817 corporate users in Beijing will ease the city's power supply bottleneck by 280,000 kilowatts, by arranging summer vacations for their employees, paying extra for power consumption at the peak season and minimizing consumption at peak hours. The city has raised power price for industries starting from July 1 as scorching temperatures drove up its energy demand. The price rise affects at least 50,000 companies. The State Electricity Dispatching Center has predicted China is to suffer the worst energy crunch in two decades this summer and many cities have limited power use by big consumers and told factories to shut down or introduce night shifts to cut electricity demand. Local governments have been told to set different electricity prices for
different hours of the day to ease power crisis at peak hours.
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