{"id":72986,"date":"2025-07-21T22:43:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/21\/china-starts-building-world-biggest-hydropower-dam-yarlung-tsangpo-river-tibet"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:43:47","slug":"china-starts-building-worlds-biggest-hydropower-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72986","title":{"rendered":"China starts building world\u2019s biggest hydropower dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.2tn yuan project has broken ground in Tibet, premier says, despite fears of downstream nations India and Bangladesh<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the world\u2019s biggest hydropower megadam has begun, China\u2019s premier has said, calling it the \u201cproject of the century\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The huge structure is being built on the Yarlung Tsangpo river, in Tibetan territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/21\/china-starts-building-world-biggest-hydropower-dam-yarlung-tsangpo-river-tibet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.2tn yuan project has broken ground in Tibet, premier says, despite fears of downstream nations India and BangladeshConstruction of the world\u2019s biggest hydropower megadam has begun, China\u2019s premier has said, calling it the \u201cproject of the century\u201d.The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,327,973,50,493,65,1911,62,659,972,609,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bangladesh","category-biodiversity","category-china","category-energy","category-environment","category-hydropower","category-india","category-renewable-energy","category-rivers","category-tibet","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72987,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72986\/revisions\/72987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}