{"id":88856,"date":"2025-07-25T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=88856"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:31:40","slug":"china-starts-construction-on-worlds-biggest-hydropower-project-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/china-starts-construction-on-worlds-biggest-hydropower-project-in-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"China starts construction on world&#8217;s biggest hydropower project in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k3k4assIM5Rb7bDtLju\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nChinese Premier Li Qiang attended a ceremony on Saturday marking the start of construction for a new $167 billion mega dam project in Tibet. The project aims to boost the national economy as well as increase the country&#8217;s capacity to produce clean energy, but it raises risks to biodiversity and to relations with India. Also in this edition, we look at the success of Barcelona&#8217;s tourist tax scheme.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Premier Li Qiang attended a ceremony on Saturday marking the start of construction for a new $167 billion mega dam project in Tibet. The project aims to boost the national economy as well as increase the country&#8217;s capacity to produce clean energy, but it raises risks to biodiversity and to relations with India. Also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[191,20517,37858,29032],"class_list":["post-88856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-china","tag-construction","tag-hydropower-project","tag-tibet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88858,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88856\/revisions\/88858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}