The San Francisco 3x90MW Hydropower Plant Project, Meinasi, Ecuador, is the first hydropower plant EPC project of HE in South America after HE successfully opened the South America market. The project is also the third largest hydropower plant project in Ecuador and it has an important political and economic position in Ecuador. In the process of the project construction, HE adopted the world’s most advanced full cross-sectional raise-boring machine, successfully completed the construction of the two deep shafts and demonstrated the thinking advocated by the Belt and Road Initiative, the innovation in construction methods, the highly efficient resource allocation and the deep integration into the market.