Ambassadors to China: Closer cooperation necessary amid climate change

STORY: Ambassadors to China: Closer cooperation necessary amid climate change DATELINE: Sept.7, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:11 LOCATION: TAIYUAN, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the 2023 Taiyuan Energy Low Carbon Development Forum 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ADEL ELARBI, Ambassador of Tunisia to China 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ADEL ELARBI, Ambassador of Tunisia to China 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MICHAEL CAMPBELL, Ambassador of Nicaragua to China 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): THORIR IBSEN, Ambassador of Iceland to China STORYLINE: Ambassadors to China attending a forum in China's Shanxi called for closer cooperation between countries in tackling the challenges brought by climate change. They expressed the views during the 2023 Taiyuan Energy Low Carbon Development Forum, which is held from Sept. 6 to 8 in Taiyuan City, north China's Shanxi Province. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ADEL ELARBI, Ambassador of Tunisia to China "The climate change nowadays is affecting all the sectors. We are speaking about energ

CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

(220318) -- YAJIANG, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Staff members check the trial operation of the last power generation unit at Lianghekou hydropower plant on the Yalong River in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 17, 2022. With the last 500,000-kW power generation unit officially putting into use, the Lianghekou hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went fully operational on Friday. With a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW and an approved investment of 66.5 billion yuan (about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars), construction of the project started in October 2014 and is expected to be fully completed by 2023, according to the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. The storage capacity of the reservoir is designed to reach 10.8 billion cubic meters, and the annual power generation volume is expected to surpass 11 billion kWh. The Yalong River basin is one of China's clean energ