Behind all the technical discussion, argue some scholars, the construction of the dam also involves the mass psychology of modern Chinese. Will this project, which has been seen by everyone from Dr. Sun to Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese Communist decision-makers as being both difficult and unparalleled, the one that will make Chinese wealthy and powerful and realize the "turn-of-the-century dream"?
隱藏在技術主題之外，有專家學者指出，大壩工程其實涉及近代中國人複雜的民族心理，這一個從孫中山、毛澤東，到今天鄧小平以及其他中共決策人士認為的高難度、舉世無雙工程，是可以讓中國大陸達到富國強民的「跨世紀之夢」？