A hydropower station larger than the Three Gorges Dam has long been mooted for the Yarlung Tsangpo River. - Reuters
BEIJING (Bloomberg): China plans to exploit the hydropower resources of a Tibetan section of a river that is a key source of water to Bangladesh and India, the Global Times reported.
China's next five-year plan calls for developing hydropower on the Yarlung Tsangpo River, Yan Zhiyong, chairman of Power Construction Corp of China, the state giant known as PowerChina, said at a conference on Thursday (Nov 26), the Global Times reported, citing a WeChat account of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China.
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