BEIJING: China blocked the massive Yangtze River yesterday and started to fill a reservoir for the world's biggest hydroelectric project that is a point of national pride.
Live television footage showed cascades of white water roaring as sluice gates drew slowly shut on the Three Gorges dam, China's biggest engineering project since the Great Wall was built more than 2,000 years ago.
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