Spatial and temporal distributions of tracers of the alpha-effect in the solar convection zone, such as current helicity and twist factor averaged over solar active regions are available by vector magnetographic observations. We discuss the data obtained at Huairou Solar Observing Station of Chinese Academy of Sciences and confront them with predictions of dynamo theory. At the present time, though the observations are rough, we still have a statistically representative sampling to conclude that the observations do not contradict the theory.