Electric heating system benefits over 87,500 people in Xinjiang

More than 87,500 students and teachers in remote areas in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have benefited from the electric heating system last winter.

Xinjiang launched a campaign to bring electric heating system to schools in rural and remote areas that cannot be reached by the city's heating networks during the heating season from 2019 to 2020.

"The electric radiator in the classroom was very warm and we didn't choke anymore by breathing in soot," said Guralay Mahesat, a primary school student in Dorbiljin County.

The Xinjiang branch of State Grid Integrated Energy Service Group Co, Ltd. said the campaign brought electric heating to more than 30 high schools and kindergartens in Kashgar, Qoqek, Ili and Altay.

The campaign has helped these schools save more than 8,800 tonnes of coal and the reduction of 16,700 tonnes of carbon dioxide, 5.26 tonnes of sulfur dioxide and 4.58 tonnes of nitrogen oxides, during the heating period.

The campaign will be expanded to cover 300 more schools in the region in 2020.