China has approved the construction of the world's largest dam, billed as the world's largest infrastructure project, at a cost of US$137 billion, to be built on Tibet's Brahmaputra river near the border with India, sparking concern in the riparian states of India and Bangladesh.
The Chinese government has approved the construction of a hydropower project on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River (Tibetan name: Brahmaputra), according to an official statement published by the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
The dam is planned to be built in a huge gorge in the Himalayas, where the Brahmaputra river makes a huge bend. Total investment on the dam could exceed one trillion yuan ($137 billion), eclipsing any other infrastructure project on the planet, including China's Three Gorges Dam, said to be the world's largest, the South China Morning Post reported Thursday.
In 2015, China already commissioned Tibet's largest hydroelectric plant, Zam, worth 1.5 billion US dollars.
