Hubei Province

China’s Three Gorges Dam is holding up against its first major flood-control test. The flow on the Yangtze River’s upper reaches topped 70,000 cubic metres a second Tuesday – 20,000 more than the flow during the 1998 floods that killed 4,150 people and the highest level since the dam was completed last year.

Flood waters being sluiced at the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang [Xinhua Photo]

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