{"id":387041,"date":"2020-12-01T08:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T03:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387041"},"modified":"2020-12-01T08:59:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T03:29:52","slug":"china-eyes-60-gw-of-hydropower-on-tibets-brahmaputra-river-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-eyes-60-gw-of-hydropower-on-tibets-brahmaputra-river-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"China eyes 60 GW of hydropower on Tibet&#8217;s Brahmaputra river: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China could build up to 60 gigawatts (GW) of hydropower capacity on a section of the Brahmaputra river, known as the Yarlung Tsangbo, which flows from Tibet into India and Bangladesh, Chinese state media reported on Monday, citing a senior executive. <\/p>\n<p>Yan Zhiyong, chairman of state-owned Power Construction Corporation of China, speaking at an industry conference, said that plans to dam the river were a &#8220;historic opportunity&#8221;, and would not only help to meet the country&#8217;s clean energy plans but would also strengthen water supply security. <\/p>\n<p>His remarks were published by China Energy News, a sister publication of the Communist Party-run People&#8217;s Daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China could build up to 60 gigawatts (GW) of hydropower capacity on a section of the Brahmaputra river, known as the Yarlung Tsangbo, which flows from Tibet into India and Bangladesh, Chinese state media reported on Monday, citing a senior executive. Yan Zhiyong, chairman of state-owned Power Construction Corporation of China, speaking at an industry conference, said that plans to dam the river were a &#8220;historic opportunity&#8221;, and would not only help to meet the country&#8217;s clean energy plans but would also strengthen water supply security. His remarks were published by China Energy News, a sister publication of the Communist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}