In a former national park 1,000kms up the Yangtze River from the Three Gorges, construction has already begun on the massive Xiluodu and Xiangjiaba hydropower stations. These will be China's second- and third-largest dams respectively and involve the forced relocation of nearly 100,000 people.
Despite finally acknowledging the many problems associated with the Three Gorges project, Beijing's state-owned dam-building machine rolls on, with hundreds of smaller dams planned for the Yangtze and its tributaries.
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