China's tallest dam, now 2nd largest, Ertan was built in the 1990s on the Golden Sand River, near Panzhihua Steel Plant, the third largest steel plant in China. The dam was built as one of China's pilot projects to harness energy from the Yangtze in the early 1980s. The high-security underground plant doesn't receive visitors. We got a tour through a back door connection: the head of the Police and Security Bureau of Panzhihua City.
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