The State Council, seeking to boost the country’s already-large hydropower capacity by 120 gigawatts, has identified 54 new dams — in addition to the ones currently under construction — as “key construction projects” in the revised energy-sector plan up to 2015. Most of the new dams are planned for the biodiversity-rich southwest, where natural ecosystems and indigenous cultures are increasingly threatened.
中国国务院意在将中国已经很大的水电发电能力再增加120G瓦，并挑选了54做新坝——不含目前已经开工的大坝——纳入新版2015年能源规划的“重点建设工程”。这些新大坝大多位于生物多样性丰富的西南地区，那里的自然生态系统和土著文化正在日益受到威胁。