ATUX, Xinjiang, April 29 (Xinhua) -- China is building a 315-million-U.S.-dollar hydropower station in the Pamirs to improve irrigation, power generation and flood control in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The project, whose construction began Tuesday at 3,300 meters above sea level, will be the first and largest of planned five hydropower stations along the Gez River in the Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture of Kizilsu, said Hou Daiping, vice president of the Guangxi Water Resources and Electric Power Group Co., Ltd.

The total investment will be 2.2 billion yuan, according to Hou.

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