The Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently launched an international design competition for a tower building, the key architecture of its planned first-ever solar thermal power plant to be built near the foot of the Badaling Great Wall in northern suburb of Beijing.
The IEE solar thermal power plant which will work as a model for China\'s upcoming other new solar power plants around the country will also be the first such project in Asia.
The landmark solar power plant tower, which will be built up to over 100 meters tall, will work to receive focused solar energy that will be reflected onto its top solar receiver by an array of thousands of sun-tracking mirrors, or heliostats, installed in front of the foot of the tower.

AWARDS:
1st prize - 30,000 yuan
Two 2nd prizes - 20,000 yuan each
Three 3rd prizes - 5,000 yuan each
6 excellent award recipients - 1,000 yuan each

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