Concrete pouring completed in construction of Baihetan dams

The concrete pouring in the construction of the first batch of Baihetan Hydropower Station's dams has been completed. The hydropower station is situated at the juncture of southwest China's Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province. The dams are the core structure of the project for flood control and discharge. The highest of the arch dams towers 289 meters.

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[raylee]

Baihetan hydropower project is a 16GW hydroelectric facility under construction on the Jinsha River. It will be the world's second biggest power station after the Three Gorges Dam, upon completion.

[JefChen]

An average worker in China makes around 90, 000 Yuan per annum while an Indian worker can expect 30, 000 rupiss per year. The price of a Big Mac in China is roughly 22 Yuan while in India it's 280 rupiss. You do the math !

[bernkoh]

The future are with you👍Go for it China..from Asean.

[raideepu]

If you don't know where is wonderland well it's China! Respect from Nepal!

[burung]

i am waiting NTD or Wion to report this dam will collapse soon...

[JefChen]

World GDP/PPP in 2020:
1. China - $28 trillion
2. USA - $20 trillion
3. *India* - $10 trillion

World GDP/PPP in 2021:
1. China - $30 trillion
2. USA - $17 trillion
3. *India* - $7 trillion

World GDP/PPP in 2022:
1. China - $33 trillion
2. USA - $14 trillion
3. Japan - $5 trillion

[kevinchen]

Gosh that is amazing, well done china

[williamgoode]

Brahmaputra is the next project, if India will accept the help.

[wataboutya]

Wow! Some awesome construction going on there!

[yangleezhao]

China should proceed to with the construction of the Yarlung Tsangpo hydroelectric project, which could generate electricity 5 times bigger than the Three Gorges Dam. Yarlung Tsangpo is also known as the Brahmaputra in India

[CongHamBanNuoc]

I heard China is doing feasibility studies on the world's largest hydroelectric power station on the Brahmaputra River? This project would dwarf the Three Gorges Dam by a factor of 5 to 1, and produce electricity 7 to 8 times more than the Three Gorges. Go for it China and make us all Socialists proud

[elizabethmellenthin]

Now, , , the interlinked channel canals can be built all the way.... fill these canals with floaties barges along side the shore lines growing harvest crops, , , fill these with fish... all this equals food, jobs, , way of life... build homes, , plant gardens, , , etc, , ,
Build these canals wide enough for aircraft carriers and battle ships can cruise up and down back and forth all the way from Beijing to the Afghan mountains.
This will bring the most supreme in China... the silk river and the silk road... inner Mongolia will have a path...

[Lee]

They should install huge lights on the bottom, so when it fills with water they can turn the lights on at night. It will light up underneath the water behind the dam and be super pretty 😁

[canuyarveingilizce]

Very interesting, whats all these projects and loans that china do and give?? How is that works? China doing smth but will see in future 😀 hope not bad.

[yu-jdjg]

The first time I see 6 vibrators working in unison compacting the concrete

[menuhin]

Want to up vote many times!
And please also protect the bio-diversity and the 綠水青山 amidst the construction ❤

[sherashera]

These mega projects is like lego to them

[spidermann]

Wow - I've never seen these gigantic vibrating pokers before [these are used to ensure adequate compaction of the fresh concrete]. Concrete tech is a black art such as managing the heat generation from the chemical reaction as the concrete sets & thermal movement. There's so much know-how that has been glossed over here.
One question I've posted before on these massive dam projects, but never answered - are there any provisions for migratory fish? Presumably there are adjacent lock gates for navigation which will also allow for migration, but it would be reassuring to know.

[davinciedi]

Lets hope this one doesn't break right :D ?

[douglasman]

Charity Worker Describes Worsening Poverty in China as Beijing Claims It Has Eliminated Poverty Nationwide

The Chinese regime recently claimed that extreme poverty has been eliminated countrywide, after removing the last remaining counties from a list of poor regions.

On Nov. 3, officials in one of China’s poorest provinces, Guizhou, announced that the last nine remaining counties had been removed from the nation’s list of poor regions. The list, drawn up in 2014, initially identified 832 counties as extremely poor.

China sets its own national standard of extreme poverty, based on a per capita income threshold of 4, 000 yuan per year, or around $1.52 per day, and other factors such as access to basic health care and education. That compares with a threshold of $1.90 per day set by the World Bank to measure extreme poverty globally.

Poverty elimination by the end of this year was a key goal set by the regime in 2016. But while Chinese state media celebrated the “milestone, ” some netizens aren’t buying the claims.

One netizen posted: “Some places say they have eliminated poverty, but in fact, there is still poverty!”

Liang Xin (a pseudonym), a longtime charity worker in Liangshan Yi Prefecture in Sichuan Province, told The Epoch Times that ethnic Yi people in the area have been left in even greater poverty than before, as a result of the regime’s “targeted poverty alleviation” policies.

The Yi people are an ethnic minority in China who mainly live in the mountainous southwestern regions of the country.

Housing Assistance Program Puts Yi People in Debt

According to Liang, the Yi people locally rely on farming corn and potatoes, although each household doesn’t own much arable land since the Liangshan region is mainly mountainous. Their crop yields give them just enough to eat, but don’t provide any additional income.

A housing assistance program introduced by the regime under its poverty elimination agency has instead left locals saddled with debt, he said.

Under the program, a person is eligible for 40, 000 yuan ($6, 000) if they build a house or renovate their current house, he said.

“But there’s a pre-condition: you must purchase building material from a government-designated company, ” Liang said, while noting that increases the expense of construction to double the amount of the grant to 80, 000 yuan ($12, 000).

“That means you’ll be trapped in debt, ” Liang said.

“If you just look out at the newly built Yi houses from the window of a driving vehicle, you’ll find the region more beautiful than before. However, you don’t know what their life is really like.”

Liang says the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been destroying the Yi people’s culture and traditions through indoctrination and education, as it has done to other ethnic groups around China.

“The purpose of [the CCP] opening schools is to get the Yi people to accept the faith of atheism, and be willing subjects under communist rule, ” he said.

Liang’s work has brought him in contact with Yi people living in abject poverty.