The Three Gorges project officially began construction during Li Peng's tenure.
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culture
鹏 is the giant bird of 庄子, and 鹏程万里, 'the roc's ten-thousand-li flight', wishes someone a brilliant future, which makes 鹏 a favourite in boys' names. His elder son, the politician 李小鹏, carries it too.
history
His father, the revolutionary 李硕勋, was executed by the 国民党 in 1931. 周恩来 and 邓颖超 looked after the boy, though Li later denied the popular story that he was their adopted son. He trained as a hydroelectric engineer in Moscow.
