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Building Blasted to Make Way for Three Gorges Project

A vacated seven-floor office building in Fengjie County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, has just been blasted, marking the first major move to clear up the reservoir area of the Three Gorges Project.


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Building Blasted to Make Way for Three Gorges Project
A vacated seven-floor office building in Fengjie County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, has just been blasted, marking the first major move to clear up the reservoir area of the Three Gorges Project.

In the 2,300-year old Yong'an town, a big explosion reduced the 3,000-sqare-meter office building of the Yong'an Township Government built in the early 1980s to a heap of debris in severalseconds.

Two plant buidings and a 50-meter chimney of Fengjie County Power Plant, not far away from the office building, are scheduled to be demolished later Sunday in the same way, sources said.

The buildings are blasted to control pollution and ensure navigation safety in the Three Gorges reservoir, the world's largest water control project, which will inundate 22 riverside counties and cities, including Fengjie, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River when the project is compled by 2009.





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