---On 16 April, Mr. Maphosa, previous
participant from Zimbabwe, revisited HRC. The participant
attended the training workshop on small hydropower in
2003, and now he has been promoted to General Manager
of Kariba Hydropower Company of Zimbabwe. Mr. Maphosa
happily recalled on the good time when he took part in
the training workshop on small hydropower 12 years ago,
attended by 37 fellow participants from 24 countries at
that time. He is also feeling the changes that have taken
place in HRC, the spacious lobby, the beautiful officeˇˇ
Ms Cheng Xialei, Director of HRC, and
Mr. Pan Daqing, Assistant to Director received the old
participant from afar. Director Cheng introduced the small
hydropower business HRC has conducted in recent years,
and expressed her willingness to have concrete cooperation
with Zimbabwe side in the field of hydropower. Mr. Pan
informed Mr. Maphosa that HRC will undertake several foreign-aid
training programs on SHP this year, and welcome participants
from his organization to come.
Before leaving, Mr. Maphosa took several
photos at Director's office, the lobby and HRC's front
gate excitedly. (2015-04-22)
