Beijing: China completed construction on Saturday of the controversial Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectricity project, and marked the occasion with a subdued ceremony broadcast live on state television. … No top officials attended the event, in contrast to the launch of work on the dam in 1997, for which then-President Jiang Zemin and then-Premier Li Peng were both present. … The official China Daily in an editorial called for people to remember the more than 100 people who died during the dam’s construction, as well as the 1.3 million people facing relocation to make way for the dam’s reservoir. … Read the full story.