China to build world’s largest hydropower dam in Tibet

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That would more than triple the 88.2 billion kWh designed capacity of the Three Gorges Dam, currently the world’s largest, in central China

The project will play a major role in meeting China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, stimulate related industries such as engineering, and create jobs in Tibet

The outlay for building the dam, including engineering costs, is also expected to eclipse the Three Gorges Dam, which cost 254.2 billion yuan (S$47.3 billion).

India and Bangladesh have nevertheless raised concerns about the dam, with the project potentially altering not only the local ecology but also the flow and course of the river downstream.

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