Complex sentence: As a famous and fearless China journalist and writer, she openly opposed the Three Gorges Dam Project (三峽工程) on the Yangtze River (長江) in 1989, because she regarded the project as "the most environmentally and socially destructive project in the world".
Split into simpler sentences: As a famous and fearless China journalist and writer, she openly opposed the Three Gorges Dam Project (三峽工程) on the Yangtze River (長江) in 1989. It is because she regarded the project as "the most environmentally and socially destructive project in the world".