{"id":387176,"date":"2020-12-01T12:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T06:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387176"},"modified":"2020-12-01T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T08:03:23","slug":"china-to-build-a-major-dam-on-brahmaputra-river-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-to-build-a-major-dam-on-brahmaputra-river-official\/","title":{"rendered":"China to build a major dam on Brahmaputra river: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China will build a major hydropower project on Brahmaputra river in Tibet and a proposal for this has been clearly put forward in the 14th Five-Year Plan to be implemented from next year, the official media on Sunday quoted the head of a Chinese company tasked to build the dam as saying. <\/p>\n<p>Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the Power Construction Corp of China, said China will \u201cimplement hydropower exploitation in the downstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River\u201d (the Tibetan name for Brahmaputra) and the project could serve to maintain water resources and domestic security, the Global Times reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China will build a major hydropower project on Brahmaputra river in Tibet and a proposal for this has been clearly put forward in the 14th Five-Year Plan to be implemented from next year, the official media on Sunday quoted the head of a Chinese company tasked to build the dam as saying. Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the Power Construction Corp of China, said China will \u201cimplement hydropower exploitation in the downstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River\u201d (the Tibetan name for Brahmaputra) and the project could serve to maintain water resources and domestic security, the Global Times reported.<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387176","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=387176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}