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CHINA: The Yangtze

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A man in Chongqing eats his lunch during a break from selling Chinese flutes to tourists.
  
Air pollution hangs over the city of Chonqing. In the foreground the Yangtze had dropped to low levels, perilous for passing ships.
     
  
A bride and bridegroom in a park near to the river in Chongqing.
   
A performing artist receiving instructions outside the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, a city that sits on the banks of the Yangtze river.
   
Young women on a boat along the river.
     
  
A woman on a tourist boat.
   
A woman colecting firewood on the banks of the Yangtze near the 3 Gorges.
   
A farmer near to the Yangtze in an area that faces flooding once the 3 Gorges dam floods. The flooding of the three Gorges, by damming the Yangtze near the town of YiChang, has remained a controversial subject due to the negative environmental consequences and the displacement of millions of people in the flood plain.
     
  
A man riding a horse in the town of Wushan.
   
A young child in the town of Wushan which sits on the Yangtze at the entrance to the Three Gorges.
   
Tourists looking out from their boat onto the Three Gorges. Tourism is becoming bigger and bigger business along the Yangtze and is increasing traffic along the river.
     
  
Tourists looking out from their boat onto the Three Gorges.
  
A tourist near the river in Shanghai.
   
A boat carrying coal , passes along the river near to the Three Gorges Dam.
     
  
Inside the Three Gorges Dam. The flooding of the three Gorges, by damming the Yangtze near the town of YiChang, has remained a controversial subject due to the negative environmental consequences and the displacement of millions of people in the flood plain.
   
Tourists infront of the famous Pudong skyline in Shanghai.
   
A guard stands sihouetted in a doorway in the city of Chongqing which sits upon either sides of the Yangtze river.
     
  
A ship steams though the megacity of Shanghai. Air pollution can be seen hovering over the city and is one of China's biggest current environmental problems.