Historical moment has arrived! The commencement ceremony of the hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River was held on July 19 in Linzhi City, and the project officially commenced. The commencement ceremony was held at the dam site of the Milin Hydropower Station in Linzhi City. The project mainly adopts the development method of straightening the river bend and tunnel water diversion, and will build five cascade power stations. The total investment is about 1.2 trillion yuan, approximately 170 billion US dollars. The project's electricity will mainly be exported for consumption, while also meeting the self-use needs of local residents and enterprises in Tibet.
Just looking at the investment amount of 1.2 trillion, you can see that this is a super large-scale investment. It is known that the annual GDP of Shandong Province has not reached 10 trillion, which is equivalent to investing nearly 1/9 of Shandong's economic output. This investment is indeed quite significant. It can only be said that the blogger previously thought that an investment of 300 billion to 500 billion would already be very impressive. However, it turned out that it was invested as much as 1.2 trillion. In 2024, China's national GDP was 134 trillion, which means that one Yarlung Tsangpo Hydropower Station accounts for 1% of our country's economic output.
Of course, this is not an investment within a year, but may take around five to eight years, so it must be done step by step. If it were invested in a single year, there would not be so much money, and it needs to be gradually invested over time. Since such a huge amount of money has been invested, we must definitely deploy heavy troops to guard the area around the Yarlung Tsangpo Hydropower Station, otherwise, if such a large hydropower station were lost, it would be a huge loss.
Additionally, India uses its hydropower stations and dams on the Indus River and Ganges River to constantly squeeze the living space of Pakistan and Bangladesh. Therefore, it is necessary for us to build a Yarlung Tsangpo Hydropower Station, thus providing more living space for Pakistan and Bangladesh. However, such an investment is beyond what the blogger had expected.
It is known that before, building a bridge from Dalian to Yantai required an investment of about 300 billion yuan, but it was not successful. Because the necessity of the investment was not great. Now, building a Yarlung Tsangpo Hydropower Station in the border area with an investment of 1.2 trillion, shows how seriously our country takes the investment in the border areas, and how important it considers territory. This is a strategically significant hydropower station, not just words.
No matter what, seeing the construction of the Yarlung Tsangpo Hydropower Station beginning is still a cause for joy. We look forward to it being connected to the grid and generating power after completion, so that we will no longer lack electricity, and it is clean energy, which is worth continuously contributing to the country's development.
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