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What is the approved budget of Jinghong Dam?

The Jinghong Dam (Jinghong hydropower station) is the 108 m roller-compacted concrete gravity dam on the Lancang (Mekong) River at Jinghong in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, with a plant of 1.75 million kW (five units of 350 MW), whose construction began on 18 July 2003, whose first unit started generating on 19 June 2008 and whose five units were put into operation within a year, a world record for plants of that size. A press release posted on the site of China Three Gorges on 25 June 2008 gives the estimated total investment as 10.2 billion yuan (102 yi yuan), against 2.3 billion yuan in the Wikipedia infobox.