1 | Floods this past summer provided the Three Gorges Dam with its greatest test since the completion of its construction. | |
2 | The same situation surrounds debates on the safety of genetically modified crops, the Three Gorges Project and the South - North Water Diversion Project. | |
3 | Regardless of the differing perspectives, everyone agrees that the Three Gorges Dam is an incredible undertaking. | |
4 | The Three Gorges project has been dogged by skeptics, even within China' s bureaucracy, since it was approved in 1992. | |
5 | 长江内生活了丰富的特有鱼类,如长江鲟、白鳍豚及白鲟等,但阶梯式的大坝建设阻断了大片流域,其中之一就是世界最大的水电项目--三峡工程。 But cascades of dams now block large sections of the river as power-hungry China seeks to fuel its growth. One is the Three Gorges, the world's biggest hydropower project. |