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The water conservancy hub project represents the most substantial investment initiative within the Government of China's Tibet aid program, funded by the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Water Resources, with a total investment of 960 million yuan. Construction of the project commenced in September 1994, with full-scale ...
A 2020 report published by the Lowy Institute, an Australian-based think tank, noted that "control over these rivers [in the Tibetan Plateau] effectively gives China a chokehold on India's economy".
The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo (Tibetan: ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་, Wylie: yar kLungs gTsang po, ZYPY: Yarlung Zangbo) and Yalu Zangbu River (Chinese: 雅鲁藏布江; pinyin: Yǎlǔzàngbù Jiāng) is a river that flows through the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and Arunachal Pradesh of India.
The river runs parallel to the northern borders of Nepal, Bhutan and India, between the Himalayas to the south and the Tibet Plateau to the north. [1] [2] The river valleys are the most populated areas of Tibet, putting pressure on wildlife. The area ranges from cold desert in the west to steppe shrub land in the east; the few trees are in the ...
Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau, Asia Society; Case Western Reserve University's Center for the Research on Tibet, a good source of downloadable articles about Tibetan nomads; Information on Qinghai and the SNNR, Plateau Perspectives; A Google Earth kmz file of the Sanjiangyuan Area, download from the World Database On Protected Areas
In June 2015, the project passed the power reversal test, enabling the first-ever transmission of Tibetan hydropower out of the region. [9] Since then, the project has established a pattern of exporting Tibetan hydropower to Qinghai during the summer and autumn, while supplying green power from Qinghai to Tibet in the winter and spring.
Rescue workers in China’s mountainous Tibet region are racing to reach survivors trapped under the rubble as night temperatures drop far below freezing point following a powerful earthquake ...
Earthquakes are common. The river basin is the center of Tibet politically, economically and culturally. As of 1990 the population was 329,700, of whom 208,700 were farmers. 88% of the people were ethnic Tibetans. [2] The climate is semi-arid monsoon, with a low average temperature of 1.2 to 7.5 °C (34.2 to 45.5 °F).