The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection has issued an order preventing dam-building on a stretch of the upper Yangtze River, which will result in the scrapping of a proposed hydroelectric dam near the western metropolis of Chongqing that had been opposed for years by environmentalists. The Xiaonanhai Dam would have cost billions of dollars to build and operate, and it was supported by Bo Xilai , the former Chongqing party chief who was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for corruption. The dam would have been Chongqing’s largest infrastructure project. Environmentalists said the dam would have destroyed a protected area of the river that had been established by officials […]