That overtakes the second-place Three Gorges Dam, which cost a mere 203.9 billion yuan.

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Perhaps no project better exemplifies this challenge than the Three Gorges Dam.

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At the end of a Yangtze cruise, you can also visit The Three Gorges Dam, which is one of the most spectacular modern engineering feats.

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Authorities also said that no damage was observed at the massive Three Gorges Dam, located on the Yangtze River, several hundred kilometres east of the epicentre.

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In China it's putting up an 800, 000-volt line, the most powerful ever, to move 6.4 gigawatts 1, 300 miles from a station near the Three Gorges Dam to Shanghai.

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The Three Gorges Dam is not to be missed.

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Later this year the Yangzi will be blocked and diverted at the site of the Three Gorges dam, a giant project that will turn the 600 kilometres below Chongqing into a lake.

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The company is involved in two more dams, in Uganda and Laos, which are expected to receive World Bank funding, and it has helped build enormous reservoirs such as the Three Gorges Dam in China.

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The two countries share the Itaipu hydroelectric dam (still the world's largest until China's Three Gorges is completed).

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