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From owner-irn-three-gorges@igc.org  Tue Nov 11 13:36:19 1997
From: owner-irn-three-gorges@igc.org
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 10:01:49 -0800 (PST)
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>Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 1:11:43 PST
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>
>   BEIJING, Nov 8 (AFP) - The damming of the mighty Yangtze river
>is proof that China has emerged as a major power in the modern
>world, Chinese Premier Li Peng said Saturday.
>   In an address to the engineers at the Three Gorges dam site only
>hours before the final damming of the river, Li said the scale of
>the project was proof to the world of China's new-found strengths.
>   "The damming of the Yangtze is of great political and economic
>significance," Li said according to the official Xinhua news
>agency.
>   "It proves to the whole world the Chinese peoples' capability of
>building the world's first-rate hydroelectric project," he added.
>   Fleets of yellow dumper trucks poured rockfill and concrete into
>the Yangtze river Saturday, and were expected to finally block off
>the river to prepare for a major hydroelectric dam by 3:30 p.m.
>(0730 GMT).
>   At that point, all the force of the river -- the world's third
>longest after the Amazon and the Nile -- would be diverted through a
>canal at the south of the dam site which is 3.7 kilometres (2.3
>miles) long.
>   Work started on closing off the final 40 metres (132 feet) early
>Saturday on the orders of Chinese Premier Li Peng and the final
>damming process will be overseen by President Jiang Zemin.
>   By 2009 when the full Three Gorges Dam is completed, it will be
>the largest in the world, standing at 185-metres (610-feet) with 26
>turbines that will create 84.7 billion kilowatt-hours of power a
>year.
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>
>Organization: Copyright 1997 by Agence France-Presse
>Subject: Three Gorges dam shows China's new strength: premier
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