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Chang Jiang

The Yangtze is China's economic axis: navigable for ocean ships a thousand kilometers inland, watering the rice core, dividing north from south. The Three Gorges Dam on it is both power plant and the single most sensitive strategic asset in the country.

30.9°N · 108.8°E

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