China launches 2 units of world’s largest hydropower station ahead of CPC’s centenary celebrations

BEIJING: China on Monday launched two units of a massive hydropower station in the country’s southwest, said to be the world’s largest, which is under construction and costs about USD 34 billion.

The two units of the Baihetan hydropower station were launched ahead of the July 1 centenary celebrations of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC).

The hydropower station is located on the Jinsha River, the upper section of the Yangtze River, and straddles the southwestern provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan.

China has already built the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River and approved plans to build another massive dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh.