The World largest dam, Yangtze River Dam or Three Gorges Dam, is a creative project of the Chinese people. For thousands of years the Yangtze River's reaches have been rich in cultural relics and natural scenery. However floods also came frequently and caused great trouble to the hard-working inhabitants. To utilize its profuse water resource and to control floods, the Three Gorges Project was inaugurated in1993 with construction projected to require 17 years.
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This great project, pondered since the 1960s, finally was laid out to be completed in three stages: 1993 - 1997, 1998 - 2003, and 2003 - 2009. During these times, local residents would be organized to immigrate to neighboring counties, and relevant relics would be removed and protected to the greatest extent possible.
After this enormous project is completed, new spectacles as beautiful as before will emerge. The real significance lies in control and utilization of Yangtze water, power generation, and navigation as well as in tourism.
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