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The World Largest Hydro-electric Power Generator in China:

China is to construct the largest dam in the world and it won’t be completed until 2009. The Dam will be situated along the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. It will be the worlds biggest, most expensive, and also the most controversial construction project that is currently underway. When completed in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam will be a concrete monolith of mind boggling proportions: 60 stories high and 1.4 miles long. The record shattering US$27 billion project will block the Yangtze to impound a narrow, ribbon like reservoir longer than Lake Superior. Twenty-six monstrous turbines will generate 18,200 megawatts, roughly the output of 18 nuclear power plants.

World Trade:

The world's most populous country, China, was officially admitted to the World Trade Organisation on Saturday 10 November 2001 after a 15-year battle - a monumental change to the world trading system.
In a ceremony lasting just a few minutes, the 142 members of the World Trade Organisation unanimously approved the accession of the world's largest country into membership. 
Loud applause and hugs between the Chinese delegation and the head of the WTO, Mike Moore, greeted the decision in the glittering conference hall in Doha, Qatar, where trade ministers are meeting to try and launch a new trade round. 
For its part, China pledged to work hard to ensure the success of the trade negotiations, and thanked the five heads of the WTO who have been in post since it began its struggle for membership in 1986.
But it put the WTO on notice that a trade round could only succeed if it addressed the gap between rich and poor nations, and ensured that all countries would gain from globalisation, as it staked its claim to lead the group of developing countries.
Chinese Trade Minister Shi Guangsheng that it supported a new round of trade negotiations "on the basis of full consideration of the interests and reasonable requests of developing countries." 
The United States was the first to congratulate China on its membership.

The Beijing Olympic 2008:

Rewarding Beijing the 2008 Summer Olympic Games indicates the Olympic consciousness will become the main melody in Chinese society, will provide Beijing and China an exceptional with the opportunity for development, will open the gate of a huge market for both the domestic and international merchant. 

"By choosing Beijing, the International Olympic Committee has made a decision of great significance because now 1.3 billion people will feel completely integrated into the world sports movement." 

To secure the Games, Beijing and the Chinese government had agreed a substantial budget of more than US$14bn. 

Will Pandas become Extinct?

The giant panda is one of the most endangered species in the world, with only about 1,000 left world-wide, most of whom live in China's Sichuan province. 

Thirteen pandas in China, pregnant thanks to artificial insemination, are due to give birth in the next few months. In the past half of artificially inseminated pandas have given birth to twins so as many as 20 cubs are expected, the official Xinhua news agency reports.

China has artificially bred 66 pandas in the past four years, in an attempt to save the notoriously under-sexed animal from extinction. "According to our experience, 50% of them could be twins, and so there may be 13 to 20 new members of the panda family soon," said Zhang Anju, director of the Giant Panda Breeding Technology Committee of China. 

Of the 66 pandas already bred artificially in China, 52 have survived, Xinhua reported. In the past it has been claimed that the main problem with getting pandas to breed is that they have a fundamental lack of interest in sex. Many solutions have been proposed in the past ranging from traditional Chinese aphrodisiacs to Viagra.