{"id":52413,"date":"2024-12-26T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/china-to-build-world-s-largest-hydropower-dam\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T11:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T11:25:31","slug":"china-to-build-world-s-largest-hydropower-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/china-to-build-world-s-largest-hydropower-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"China to build world&#8217;s largest hydropower dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, the project aims to generate an estimated 300 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually, tripling the output of the Three Gorges Dam, which produces 88.2 billion kWh.<\/p>\n<p>With an investment exceeding 1 trillion yuan ($137 billion), this ambitious endeavor will be the largest infrastructure project globally.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing sees the dam as a critical step toward its carbon neutrality goals and a response to global climate change challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The Yarlung Tsangpo River, originating in Tibet, flows into India and Bangladesh, where it is known as the Brahmaputra.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-79450\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gorges.jpg\" alt=\"China has approved the construction of the world\u2019s largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has approved the construction of the world\u2019s largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000079449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000079449,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gorges.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gorges.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gorges.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gorges.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gorges.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gorges.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000079449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52413"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52413"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}