(TibetanReview.net, Apr07’26) – China’s mega projects in ecologically fragile, seismically active Tibet, especially those meant for generating electric power and providing mass transport services, have always been controversial, all the more because they also involve what is seen as colonial exploitation in an occupied territory. Beijing has reacted to expressions of these concerns with vengeance, and on Apr 6 began building there reportedly the highest “trough-style” solar thermal plant in the world.
A massive clean energy project broke ground on Apr 6 in Damzhung (written in Chinese media reports as Dangxiong or Damxung) country of Tibet’s capital Lhasa, marking a major step forward i...





