{"id":13278,"date":"2025-07-22T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13278\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:38:08","slug":"china-kick-starts-worlds-largest-hydroelectric-dam-on-yarlung-tsangpo-river-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13278\/","title":{"rendered":"China kick-starts world\u2019s largest hydroelectric dam on Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jing Jin and Alfred Cang<\/p>\n<p>Updated Jul 22, 2025 \u2013 1.30pm, first published at 11.49am<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription -d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s leaders are hopeful construction of the world\u2019s largest hydroelectric dam will inject massive stimulus into the faltering economy and boost clean power, despite potential damage to biodiversity and the impact on relations with neighbour India.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced on Monday that building has started on the 1.2 trillion yuan ($256 billion) dam on the Tibetan Plateau, which is expected to be at least three times larger than the controversial Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"-_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg and Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jing Jin and Alfred Cang Updated Jul 22, 2025 \u2013 1.30pm, first published at 11.49am Gift this article&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-13278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}