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Thread: Three Gorges Dam Project Finished
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[quote=ROGERINCA ,27585]Such an interesting and contemporary thread Rita !!I just watched a program about this monumental project, last Saturday on CCTV-9, which is available on cable here in America.As I am not Chinese, I do not claim to have a high level of knowledge about this project, nor do I feel it is any of my business, as a non-citizen of China, to [opine] on this matter; however, here is some of what I have been told:This has been referred to, as the greatest construction project in China, since the building of the Great Wall. The father of modern China, Sun Yat-sen, is credited with first proposing the idea of a hydroelectric dam at Three Gorges in 1919. And in the mid-1950s, after a series of devastating floods along the Yangtze, and the resulting great loss of life, Chairman Mao Zedong ordered feasibility studies on damming the river. The power of the Yangtze’s devastating floods have been recorded for centuries and have claimed more than 1 million lives in the past century. This dam is expected to tame this famous and historic River. The project includes a system of locks, the largest ever built, intended to bring ocean-going ships 1,500 miles inland to Chongqing. Engineers say, this will enable 10,000-ton ocean-going freighters to sail directly into the nation's interior for six months of each year, thus opening a region filled with agricultural and manufactured products. Officials hope the combination of inexpensive electricity and cheap river transportation will further open the region to international investment -- making Chongqing a major business centerWith respect to the production of electricity, the dam's clean hydropower turbines are expected to create as much electricity as that produced by 18 nuclear power plants. Chinese officials note the dam may end up providing as much as one-ninth of the nation's electrical production. China now burns 50 million tons of coal each year for energy, thus the hydro power will replace much of this and help reduce air pollution, as well as provide lower cost electrical power for its people.BTW, I am not sure if many of the members know that our TCG is an expert resource and professional facilitator of beautiful Yangtze River cruises !!?? I hope to take one of the TCG sponsored 4/5 day cruises sometime in 2007 !!! :) :)[/quote]
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