2025-12-23
14 分钟For decades, the Three Gorges Dam has stood as a symbol of China's engineering might.
A project so vast that NASA said it measurably altered the Earth's rotation,
making days .06 microseconds longer.
The Three Gorges Dam generates more electricity than any other power plant on Earth,
enough to light up more than 70 million homes a year.
But on the edge of the Himalayas,
China is planning something even more ambitious on a river you may never have heard of.
This is the project of the century, the most impressive power generation system ever envisioned.
It's the hydropower equivalent of a mission to Mars.
But to build it, China must tunnel through mountains
that are still rising in one of the most earthquake-prone places on the planet.
And that's not all.
What happens here could affect hundreds of millions of lives downstream
in neighboring India and Bangladesh,
risking new tensions over water.
The engineering is unprecedented.
So are the stakes.
There is like this stark beauty.
It was called the roof of the world because it's the highest part of the world.
From the glacial melt here,