Linking our Yarlung Tsangpo River project with India is a move that lowers our dignity. The Yarlung Tsangpo is absolutely not a topic of "water resource war," and India is deliberately manufacturing such a geopolitical issue.
His water resource issues are more about the fact that groundwater in the Indus River basin has already been depleted for 1.5 billion people in New Delhi, which is why he fights with Pakistan. However, the Yarlung Tsangpo, especially in our southern Tibet region, has abundant precipitation. This situation also applies to Bhutan and Bangladesh in this area, with ample rainfall ensuring sufficient water supply, but it's too much. They lack proper water conservancy facilities, leading to frequent floods that can submerge millions of people.
India's hype around the Yarlung Tsangpo is not about water distribution at all. His hidden agenda is to reach into our Tibet and interfere in our internal affairs. For example, he demands that we must inform him of hydrological data on the Yarlung Tsangpo and increase the transparency of the Yarlung Tsangpo water conservancy construction. We did sign a memorandum of understanding with him before, but the memorandum of understanding has no legal binding force. If he doesn't behave properly, we will immediately stop the related cooperation, without giving him any opportunity to overstep.
This Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower facility, apart from the needs of Tibet's own development, mainly serves the direct benefits of our southwest strategic hinterland construction and the integration of the Pearl River Delta. After the establishment of big data, artificial intelligence, and new productive forces, an annual power generation of 90 billion kilowatt-hours can replace 90 million tons of standard coal. Isn't this the industrial development, regional development, and the strategy goal of energy conservation and emission reduction?
Some say that we build hydropower stations because India first used water resources to strangle Pakistan, which is inaccurate. This project is a large clean energy base and a special high-voltage transmission channel project under our own "14th Five-Year Plan." Our country may have no other skills, but we are good at formulating and implementing medium- and long-term strategic plans. Now, except for football, every plan is being steadily implemented. It is said that the G3 highway from Beijing to Taipei and the Fuzhou-Taipei cross-sea bridge are part of the "16th Five-Year Plan."
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