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The Three Gorges Dam (simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝; traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
24 paź 2024 · Three Gorges Dam, dam on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) just west of the city of Yichang in Hubei province, China. When construction of the dam officially began in 1994, it was the largest engineering project in China.
3 paź 2020 · A decade ago, China finished construction of the largest, most expensive, most powerful and most controversial dam in the world: the Three Gorges Dam.
The Three Gorges Dam (TGD) and associated infrastructure is the largest integrated water project built in the history of the world. It has also been one of the most contro-versial due to its massive environmental, economic, and social impacts.
23 lis 2019 · A huge dam was designed to control flooding, create electricity and help navigation. The Chinese government has spent more than $86 billion since 2011 to deal with issues like the ones that...
The dam “effectively reduced the speed and extent of water level rises” on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze, an official from the water resources ministry told the state-run publication China Youth Daily.
1 sty 2006 · It is expected that this mega-dam, which will harbor the largest hydropower plant in the world, will contribute to flood control in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, will solve...
