China's wind power capacity hits 62.7 gigawatts in 2011

File photo taken on Oct. 3, 2011 shows Jishan Wind Power Plant in Duchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province. China installed 18 gigawatts of wind power turbines in 2011, capturing about 40 percent of the global total and pushing up China's total installed wind power capacity to 62.7 gigawatts, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said in a report on Feb. 7, 2012.