Video: China builds world’s largest hydropower dam, worth nearly 170 billion USD

Chinese Premier Li Qiang on July 21 attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the world’s largest hydropower project, valued at 1.2 trillion yuan (about 168 billion USD).

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