China’s environment ministry has blocked a $3.75bn dam project that would have flooded the last free- flowing section of the middle reaches of the Yangtze river, in a rare victory for environmentalists.
Upriver from the inland port city of Chongqing, the Xiaonanhai dam has been a rallying cause for Chinese
environmentalists since now-disgraced politician Bo Xilai redrew the boundaries of a nature reserve to allow its construction.
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