China rolled out its fastest train yet on Tuesday and announced that the Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydroelectric project, is now generating electricity at maximum capacity — engineering triumphs that signal the nation's growing ambitions as its economy booms.Full story
Torrential rains continue in China – threatening lives and forcing authorities to close shipping locks on the massive Three Gorges Dam. NBC News Adrienne Mong reports from Beijing.
Plans to raise the water level behind China's massive Three Gorges dam to full capacity this month — which would mark the symbolic culmination of the decades-old project — are stalled. Full story
Torrential rains continue in China – threatening lives and forcing authorities to close shipping locks on the massive Three Gorges Dam. NBC News Adrienne Mong reports from Beijing.
A worker clears floating garbage on the Yangtze River near the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Hubei province August 1, 2010. Thousands of tonnes of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China's massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people can s
In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 20, 2010, workers on a ship try to stop the wastes brought by the flood near the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang in central China's Hubei province. China's claims that its massive Three Gorges Dam can withstand the worst floods only seen every 10,000 years have lost
In this Tuesday, July 20, 2010 file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, journalists take photos as flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province. China's claims that its massive Three Gorges Dam can withstand the worst floods o
In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Rescuers were searching Tuesday for 30 people buried in landslides as flood waters from days of heavy rain surge
