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Work Starts on Lancang River Power Station
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2002-01-25
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| Construction began Sunday on a large hydroelectric power station on the Lancang River in Yunnan Province, southwest China. With a designed generating capacity of 4.2 million kw, the Xiaowan Hydroelectric Power Station is expected to cost 22.25 billion yuan (about 2.71 billion U.S. dollars). The project, the second biggest next to that of the Three Gorges power station on the Yangtze River, will be completed by 2012, when all the generating units will be in operation. The electricity produced by the station will be sent to the coastal province of Guangdong, south China. A dam as high as 292 meters will be built. Water conservancy experts say the project will help flood control and soil erosion prevention efforts downstream. The Lancang River originates on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and, known as the Mekong River, runs through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam before it empties into the South China Sea. |
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