China Datang Corporation (CDT), one of the five large-scaled power generation enterprises, was established on the basis of the partial power generation assets of former State Power Corporation of China on Dec. 29, 2002. It is a solely state-owned corporation directly managed by the CPC Central Committee and is the experimental state-authorized investment and state share-holding enterprise ratified by the State Council. CDT is mainly specialized in such business as management of the state-owned assets invested by the state and owned by CDT; development, investment, construction, operation and management of power energy; organization of power (thermal) production and sales; electric power equipment manufacture, maintenance and commissioning; power technology development and consultation; contracting and consulting of electric power engineering and environmental protection projects and renewable energy development. The registered capital is 12 billion yuan. By the end of 2006, the total assets reached 226.6 billion yuan.  

CDT implemented the management system and operation mode of group operation and constituted the three-level hierarchical responsible entity, i.e. group corporation (CDT), branch companies and subsidiaries, and grass roots enterprises. CDT has established 6 wholly funded subsidiaries and 8 branch companies, namely, Datang Shaanxi Power Generation Co., Ltd., Datang Gansu Power Generation Co., Ltd., Datang Heilongjiang Power Generation Co., Ltd., Datang Jilin Power Generation Co., Ltd., Datang Hebei Power Generation Co., Ltd. and Datang Guizhou Power Generation Co., Ltd.; Hunan Branch Company, Anhui Branch Company, Henan Branch Company, Shanxi Branch Company, Jiangsu Branch Company, Sichuan Branch Company, Yunnan Branch Company and Guangxi Branch Company .  

CDT owns Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd., the first company in China listed in London and Hong Kong; Hunan Huayin Electric Power Co., Ltd. and Guangxi Guiguan Electric Power Co., Ltd. which were domestically listed at fairly early time; large-scaled power plants with capacity over 1,000MW, such as Datang Shouyangshan Power Generation Company, Datang International Zhangjiakou Power Plant, Inner Mongolia Datang International Tuoketuo Power Generation Co., Ltd., Yangcheng International Power Generation Co., Ltd. and Datang Yantan Hydropower Plant; wind power projects like Inner Mongolia Saihanba Wind Power and Fujian Zhangzhou Liuao Wind Power; Longtan Hydropower Project under construction with planned capacity of 6,300MW and China National Water Resources & Electric Power Materials & Equipment Co., Ltd. with a nation wide logistic network, etc. All the power generation assets in operation of CDT are widely distributed over 19 municipalities (provinces or autonomous regions), namely, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Fujian. 

The development strategy of CDT is: to build CDT into a managerial and share-holding type of market-oriented, group, modernized and internationalized large scaled power enterprise group with fairly strong development capability, profitable capability and international competitiveness.