State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) (simplified Chinese: 国家电网公司; traditional Chinese: 國家電網公司; pinyin: Guójiā Diànwǎng Gōngsī) is the largest electric utilities company in the world. It transmits and distributes power in China. The power distributor is headquartered in Xicheng District, Beijing and manages distribution from subsidiaries in Northern China, Northeastern China, Eastern China, Middle China and Northwestern China.
After the electricity "Plant-Grid Separation" reform in early 2002, the assets of State Electric Power Corporation (国家电力公司) were divided into the five "power generation groups" that retained the power plants and five regional subsidiaries belonging to the State Grid Corporation of China in Beijing. The company is the seventh largest in the world according to the 2011 Fortune Global 500 ranking.
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