BEIJING, Sept 23 (Reuter) - The installed capacity of power stations in China's remote Himalayan region of Tibet hit 193 megawatts in 1995, with total electricity generated totalling around 520,000 megawatt hours, the Xinhua news agency said.

Energy output in the backward and mountainous region had grown an average 10.2 percent between 1990 and 1995, while capacity had grown an average 4.6 percent, the agency said.

During the five years, total investment in Tibetan power infrastructure had reached 2.3 billion yuan ($277 million), of which 85 percent came from the central government, it said.

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