The River Qi is a poem written by Yu Xiaozhong that focused on the Yangtze River in the Hubei Province. The Three Gorges Dam was built from 1994 to 2006 and is the world's largest hydro-electric power station. With the current political environment in China, citizens are prohibited from talking about the construction. The construction of the dam caused at least 1.3 million people to be displaced, ruined the entire environment and surrounding ecosystem, and destroyed some of the oldest archaeological sites in the country. The dam is also blamed for causing numerous and landslides that appeared in the region.
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