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7 June, 2006

10 things you didn’t know about the Three Gorges Project:

Shihuang

6. China’s First Emperor, Qin Shihuang, also envisaged building the Three Gorges Dam more than 2,000 years ago in order to threaten rebellious downstream communities with torrents of Yangtze water.

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