Of the world's rivers, only the Amazon has more species of fish than the Mekong.
世界上的河流中只有亚马逊河鱼的种类比湄公河多。
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The rivers then wend their separate ways before reaching the sea in very different places: the Salween in Myanmar, the Mekong in southern Vietnam and the Yangzi near Shanghai.
But the full exploitation of hydro potential would damage immensely the livelihoods of tens of millions of people living downstream in the plains of the Mekong, Salween and Brahmaputra rivers.