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The Three Gorges Dam was intended to be the world's largest hydroelectric project. It was supposed to help provide China with a lot of electricity in order to provide power to more of its population.

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Once it was announced, to reverse the decision would cause "loss of face" for individual Chinese leaders who supported, the project, for the government as a whole, and for the nation of China - all of which in Chinese culture are essentially unthinkable - far worse than death.

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