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China is building a hydropower station on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, which will become the largest hydropower project in the world.

The Yarlung Tsangpo River flows through China and India, and after entering India, it is called the Brahmaputra River.

For many years, India has been worried that China's construction of dams upstream will affect the water volume and ecology downstream.

However, recently India's reaction has been relatively calm because most of the river's water actually comes from tributaries within India.

The Yarlung Tsangpo River is just one of many tributaries of the Brahmaputra River.

China's hydropower stations mainly use the river's drop in elevation to generate electricity and may not necessarily build the world's largest dam.

This project is difficult because the terrain here is complex, and there are risks of earthquakes and landslides.

Both China and India are building many dams, which will make the Brahmaputra River no longer flow as freely as before.