{"id":132618,"date":"2025-07-11T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132618"},"modified":"2025-07-11T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:00:07","slug":"china-blows-up-300-dams-shuts-hydropower-stations-to-save-yangtze-river-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132618","title":{"rendered":"China blows up 300 dams, shuts hydropower stations to save Yangtze River habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has demolished 300 dams and shut down most of the small hydropower stations on a major tributary of the upper Yangtze River to safeguard fish populations as part of an effort to restore the ecology of Asia\u2019s longest waterway.<br \/>\nAccording to a report by the state news agency Xinhua on Monday, 300 of the 357 dams on Chishui He \u2013 also known as the Red River \u2013 had been dismantled by the end of December 2024.<br \/>\nIn addition, 342 out of 373 small hydropower stations have been decommissioned, enabling&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3317644\/china-blows-300-dams-shuts-hydropower-stations-save-yangtze-river-habitat?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has demolished 300 dams and shut down most of the small hydropower stations on a major tributary of the upper Yangtze River to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}