{"id":133544,"date":"2025-07-28T04:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133544"},"modified":"2025-07-28T04:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:01:09","slug":"how-chinese-scientists-fought-74-years-for-worlds-most-powerful-dam-and-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133544","title":{"rendered":"How Chinese scientists fought 74 years for world\u2019s most powerful dam \u2013 and won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 1951, immediately after Tibet\u2019s liberation, the Chinese government established the first Tibetan scientific expedition.<br \/>\nThis was the first comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. More than 50 researchers, equipped with barometers, compasses and other basic instruments, accompanied the army on their pioneering quest.<br \/>\nIt took them nearly three years to complete the expedition from the Jinsha River in the east to Mount Everest in the west, and to the Yarlung Tsangpo&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3319550\/how-chinese-scientists-fought-74-years-build-most-powerful-dam-earth-and-won?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 PostIn 1951, immediately after Tibet\u2019s liberation, the Chinese government established the first Tibetan scientific expedition. This was the first comprehensive scientific expedition to the&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\/133544"}],"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=133544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}