Since the start of the year, Shanghai Electric Power Construction Co Fujian Company -- a subsidiary of POWERCHINA -- has made every effort to overcome difficulties due to the COVID-19 epidemic.

Despite personnel shortages and limited logistics, it has expanded the development of its markets and improved the performance of its projects.

On Nov 20, the new 230-kilovolt electrical transmission line from San Jose to Quezon in the Philippines began transmitting power.

The 230-kV transmission line from San Jose to Quezon in the Philippines begins operations. [Photo/POWERCHINA]

The Philippine team of the POWERCHINA unit dynamically tracked the project's progress, revised construction drawings and hired consultants to go to the Philippines to guide the construction on-site.

The company overcame a number of challenges including a shortage of manpower, the spread of the epidemic and design changes, before power transmission was finally achieved.

The project's commissioning would boost electricity consumption in the wider Metro Manila area, ensuring its smooth industrial production.

Plans are for the Fujian Company to maintain its strict novel coronavirus epidemic prevention and control measures and to actively respond to the requirements of the host country's government, to complete the project's construction.