The Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydro power project and most notorious dam. The massive project sets records for number of people displaced (more than 1.2 million), number of cities and towns flooded (13 cities, 140 towns, 1,350 villages), and length of reservoir (more than 600 kilometers).
(International River. Three Gorges Dam.. 5 Jan. 2011 <http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/node/356?gclid=CLv29KSEpKYCFUVqKgodkSJlnA>.)

The most significant function of the dam is to control flooding, which is a major problem for the seasonal river of the Yangtze. Millions of people live downstream of the dam, with many large, important cities like Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai situated adjacent to the river. Plenty of farm land and China's most important industrial area are built beside the river.
As a Yichang citizens, I am not happy with this project. Although Yichang's economy changed by this big project, more environment problems impact my hometown even more the whole China.
In order to build this dam, some historical relict suffered damaged and destroyed. When the dam constructed, many newspaper reported that some animal run away to the mountain peak. Absolutely, resettlement who lived in Three Gorges struggled with government in a long time.
Today, my hometown has chaged rich but it lost more than before.