Newly-released statistics reveal that Inner Mongolia autonomous region had transmitted 26.41 billion kWh of electricity to the East by the end of 2017, with the region being one of the first areas to implement the "West-to-East Electricity Transmission" project

As a critical project which launched for supporting the East area's development, the "West-to-East Electricity Transmission" project was introduced in 1993 to transmit Western area's excess electricity to the Eastern part.

Over the past 25 years, a total of 27 five hundred-kilovolt transformer substations have been built and nearly 700 kilometers of 500-kilovolt transmission lines have been erected across the autonomous region.