Yangqu Hydropower Station is located at the junction of Xinghai County and Guinan County in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. The power station is equipped with three 400,000-kilowatt Francis turbine generator units with a total installed capacity of 1.2 million kilowatts.

The station is an important supporting peak-shaving power supply for China's first ±800 kV "Qingyu DC" ultra-high voltage transmission channel.