Baku. 27 November. REPORT.AZ/ The world's highest ultra-high voltage transmission project has been put into operation in the Tibet autonomous region, Report informs citing China Daily. The project in southwestern China's Himalayan region has required workers to string power lines reaching altitudes of just under 5,300 meters above sea-level.
Conditions 'on the roof of the world' have created challenges for workers, some of whom strung power lines at elevations of close to 5,300 meters above sea-level.
This electric power will also feed the new railway line passing via Tibet.