China’s Yarlung Zangbo hydropower project won’t hurt India

China adheres to a liable cognition towards cross-border stream improvement and pursues a argumentation of balancing utilisation and protection. Through decades of rigorous assessment, the task has afloat considered the determination geological environment, avoiding seismically progressive areas and geological catastrophe chains successful the basin. During the construction, catastrophe monitoring volition beryllium ensured, and the basin’s catastrophe prevention and emergency-response capabilities volition beryllium continuously improved. After completion, the task tin efficaciously trim h2o erosion, gradually dilatory down and stabilise the stream landform evolution, and yet trim the occurrence of geological disasters. In addition, the task prioritises biodiversity, striving to sphere the archetypal ecosystem to the top grade successful accordance with the highest manufacture standards. Through ecological compensation and vegetation restoration, this volition acceptable an illustration for aboriginal projects.

China sticks to the argumentation of forging friendships and partnerships with its neighbours. It ne'er pursues the maximisation of unilateral interests, fto unsocial benefits for itself astatine the disbursal of its neighbours. China does not and volition ne'er question “water hegemony”. In fact, China has signed implicit 50 bilateral treaties and agreements with neighbouring countries connected h2o resources management, and established much than 10 cross-border stream basin governance institutions with cooperative improvement and ecological extortion arsenic its core. Taking the Lancang River arsenic an example, China has ever maintained bully connection and practice with the little riparian states connected h2o conservancy and hydropower projects, starring to communal benefits.

The improvement of the task has corresponding guarantees successful presumption of engineering information and biology extortion and has nary antagonistic interaction connected the little reaches. More specifically, the task does not devour h2o but lone uses the imaginable vigor of h2o to make electricity. After completion, it volition assistance with catastrophe prevention and simplification by making the runoff much adjacent via “rainy play flood retention and adust play h2o release.” Indian scholars person pointed retired that the h2o measurement of the Brahmaputra River is chiefly from rainfall and tributaries successful the confederate slope of the Himalayas. As the task progresses, China volition merchandise much information and accusation successful owed course.

In 2006, China and India established an expert-level mechanics connected trans-border rivers to cooperate connected hydrological reporting, and catastrophe prevention and reduction. China has repeatedly provided hydrological information to India during emergencies, and powerfully supported it successful catastrophe prevention and simplification measures. During the caller gathering of the peculiar representatives connected the China-India bound question, some sides agreed to proceed enhancing transverse borderline connection and cooperation, including practice connected cross-border rivers. China volition proceed to support connection with India done existing channels and measurement up practice connected catastrophe prevention and relief. China stands acceptable to enactment with the Indian broadside to heighten communal trust, fortify cooperation, decently grip differences, and beforehand the steadfast and unchangeable improvement of China-India relations.

Wang Lei is chargé d’affaires astatine the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China