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A Grand Project

Born in the 1990s, Wu Sixiao still remembers the massive floods of 1998, which made his family worried sick day and night. Living on the first floor of a residential building in Honghu, Hubei Province, central China, one of the most severely affected places in the country, they had to drain water from the apartment using washbasins. His father also volunteered to help others fight the flood.

“This has never happened again after the construction of the Three Gorges project. Now, rather than worrying about the floods, people can even

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