A major water control project in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region started to store water on Saturday, according to the China Energy Engineering Group.
The Dashixia Water Control Project is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Kumarak River in Xinjiang's Aksu region. The highest dam of the project reaches 247 meters, equivalent to an 80-story building. It is the world's highest concrete-faced sand-gravel dam.
With a total installed capacity of 750,000 kilowatts, the project will generate over 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, which can meet the annual electricity demand of 650,000 households.
The Dashixia Water Control Project is designed to undertake flood and drought control as a stable water source for agricultural irrigation in the Aksu region.
The project is scheduled to be fully completed and put into operation next year.
Water control project in Xinjiang begins storing water
The multilateral system is "under attack" amid global turmoil, President of the 80th UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock warned in her remarks on Wednesday.
In her briefing on the priorities for the resumed 80th Session of the General Assembly, the UNGA president noted that the current multilateral system does not collapse all in a sudden, but "crumbles piece by piece" in divisions, compromises, and lack of political commitment.
The president called all the UN member states to defend the UN Charter and international law and promote cross-regional cooperation.
She also urged to push forward the work of the UNGA on certain critical issues with a strong majority, rather than an absolute consensus among all member states. Such act is not a failure of multilateralism, but "an affirmation of it," she said.
The foundational principles of the institution should not be eroded by appeasement, she said, calling the member states to show courage, leadership, and responsibility at the UN's "critical make-or-break moment."
"The UN needs you. Your support, your leadership, your principle, stand, your cross-regional cooperation, if we are to preserve and modernize this institution, if we are to make it, rather than break it," she said.
UNGA President warns global multilateral system "under attack"
