In February 1979, the Ministry of water conservancy and electricity was revoked and the Ministry of electric power industry was established.

In March 1982, the Ministry of water resources and the Ministry of electric power industry were re merged into the Ministry of water and electricity.

In December 1984, the leadership of the Central Committee and the State Council set up a "Huaneng International Power Development Corp" to make use of foreign capital to run electricity and speed up the construction of electricity.

In May 1985, the State Council approved the National Economic Commission and other departments "notice on encouraging Interim Provisions" funded power and the implementation of a variety of price, funded power policy officially launched.

In September 1987, the State Council proposed the "twenty character policy" for the reform and development of the power reform and development of "the separation of government and enterprise, the province as an entity, the joint power grid, the unified dispatching and the collection and management".

In April 1988, the Ministry of coal industry, the Ministry of petroleum industry, the Ministry of nuclear industry and the Ministry of water conservancy and electricity were revoked and the Ministry of energy was formed.

In October 1988, the China Electric Power Enterprise Federation was established.

In 1991, China Southern Power joint venture was formed. In November 1999, the company was separated from the plant network. After reorganizing some of its assets, the power grid was reorganized into a state power company's branch, the national electricity Southern Co.

In January 1993, the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee of the State Council was established. In the same month, the northeast, North China, central China, northwest and East China's five interprovincial power grids set up power enterprise groups.

In March 1993, the Ministry of energy and other 7 ministries and committees were revoked, and 6 ministries and commissions, such as the Ministry of electric power industry, were formed.

In January 1994, the State Council approved Shandong Huaneng Power Generation, Huaneng International power, Shandong international power supply and Beijing Datang 4 power enterprises as the first to be listed overseas. Since August, 4 companies have been listed in New York and Hongkong.

In December 1995, the seventeen meeting of the eight National People's Congress passed the People's Republic of China electric power law and was formally implemented in April 1, 1996.

In June 1996, the State Power Grid Construction Co., Ltd. was established.

In January 16, 1997, the state power company was formally established.

In March 1998, the Ministry of electric power industry revoked, and the power administration function was transferred to the State Economic and Trade Commission.

In September 1998, the State Council approved the State Economic and Trade Commission, the State Planning Commission "on the right to buy electricity to stop the implementation of the relevant provisions of the opinions", which marks 20 years of power shortage situation basically ended.

In October 1998, the State Council forwarded the notice of the State Planning Commission "on the transformation of rural power grid reform of rural power management system to realize urban and rural Tongwangtongjia instructions", "two to one price" officially launched.

In December 1998, 6 provinces (municipalities directly under the central government), such as Zhejiang, Shandong, Shanghai, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other provinces, became the pilot of the reform of the "separation of the plant network and the bidding for the Internet".

In May 1999, the State Economic and Trade Commission issued "opinions on improving the separation of power and industry in the power industry", and put forward specific requirements for reforming the provincial electric power administration system and realizing the separation between government and enterprises.

In June 2001, the reform and implementation of the separation of power system from the power system of Guangdong province was introduced.

In February 10, 2002, the State Council issued the "notice" the scheme of power system reform, the reform plan on the electric power system, its main contents include: the restructuring of power generation assets, the establishment of a number of independent power company; restructuring of power grid assets, the establishment of the national Power Grid Corp and Power Grid Corp in the south, the national Power Grid Corp under the jurisdiction of several regional Power Grid Corp; the establishment of the State Electricity Regulatory Commission responsible for the supervision of power.

In March 1, 2002, the State Council sent a meeting minutes chaired by Vice Premier Wu Bangguo of the State Council on the implementation of the reform of electric power, telecommunications and civil aviation system. The power system reform task force was established, the power system reform was officially implemented, and then a working group on the power system reform was established. Zeng Peiyan, the director of the State Planning Commission served as the leader.

In March 15, 2002, the working group held its first meeting and carried out specific arrangements and deployment.

In June 2002, the working group through the "division of power generation and secondary industry, restructuring three production enterprises preliminary framework", and submitted to the state council.

In October 15, 2002, the working group of the power system reform held fourth meetings, and the main leaders of the preparatory group of the Electricity Regulatory Commission, Power Grid Corp and power generation company were settled. Chai Songyue is the chairman of the state electric Supervision Commission and the party secretary.

In December 29, 2002, the national Power Grid Corp, China Souther Grid Corp, Chinese Huaneng Group, China Datang Corporation, China Huadian Corporation, China Guodian Corporation, Chinese China Power Investment Corp and other 5 power generation companies, Chinese Power Engineering Consulting Group Corporation, Chinese Hydropower Engineering Consulting Group Co., Chinese water conservancy and hydropower construction Corporation, Chinese Gezhouba Dam water conservancy and Hydropower Engineering Group Corporation 4 secondary industry group also listed.