China has completed its ambitious power project in Tibet, the highest in the world. Power lines, located at an altitude of 5,300 meters in the Himalayan region of China, were put into service last week in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, local media reported. .
the energy project started in the region in April 2017. The project, at a cost of $ 2.35 billion, includes the construction or upgrading of 16 substations and transmission lines of 110 kv. The total length of the power line is 2 738 km
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"The construction here is extremely complicated because of the frag -system. The complex terrain and the changing weather conditions only let us build six months a year, "said Xinhua last April, Wang Shuxiang, a project manager.