According to the Global Times, ‘China will build a hydropower project on the Yarlung Zangbo River, one of the major waters in Asia that also passes through India and Bangladesh’.
- This “super hydropower station” is located in Medog county, where the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon is located.
- China has already built several smaller dams on the Brahmaputra or Yarlung Zangbo river.
- The new super dam’s ability to generate hydropower could be three times that of central China’s Three Gorges Dam, which has the largest installed hydropower capacity in the world.
- The Global Times reports that ‘the project will play a significant role in realizing China’s goal of reaching a carbon emissions peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060.’
- The trans-border Yarlung Zangbo originates in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and flows into Arunachal Pradesh where it is called Siang and then to Assam as Brahmaputra before flowing into Bangladesh.
(References: Global Times and HT)
