What is the Three Gorges Dam?

The Three Gorges Dam, located in Sandouping Town, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, is 38 kilometers away from the downstream Gezhouba Water Conservancy Project. It is the main project of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station in the world today, the core landscape of the Three Gorges Dam tourist area, The eastern end of the Three Gorges Reservoir.

Three Gorges Dam

(China Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering)

The impact of the Three Gorges Project on the environment and ecology is very wide. The impact on the reservoir area is the most direct and significant. It also has a significant impact on the Yangtze River Basin. Some people even believe that the Three Gorges Project will cause major changes in the global climate and marine environment.

Ten years after the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, China Three Gorges Group insists on the orderly construction and operation of projects based on ecological protection, pays attention to the coordination of engineering protection and natural conservation, and adopts a variety of effective measures to actively protect terrestrial and aquatic ecology. Carry out soil and water conservation and ecological restoration.

The Yangtze River Three Gorges Project's ecological and environmental protection monitoring system focuses on the reservoir area, extends to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the estuary-related areas, and consists of 27 key monitoring stations. The monitoring content includes pollution sources, water environment, agricultural ecology, terrestrial ecology, and wetland ecology. , Aquatic ecology, atmospheric environment, earthquakes, earthquakes, and human health.

Three Gorges Dam Campaign

The one-year "Three Gorges Dam · High Gorge Pinghu" international tourist resort collection of global slogans officially ended. After various selections by the expert group, in the end, "China Water Resources Wisdom, World Landscape Classics" stood out from nearly 10,000 slogans and won the selection award. Its author, Mai Haoqin, came from Foshan City, Guangdong, and has collected many slogans in China. Awarded at the event.

Yangtze River plug of the Three Gorges Dam

A person in charge of the navigation management department of the Three Gorges said: "Basically it is operating at full capacity. In the original design, the normal number of open space of the Three Gorges Shiplock was about 320 days per year, and now it is almost maintained at 365 days.

Even so, many shipping and logistics companies are still feeling that the traffic lag has brought a lot of trouble to the enterprises. A veteran who has been engaged in the Yangtze River shipping for 30 years said that the congestion of the Three Gorges Dam is normalized. It is normal for ships on the Yangtze River to wait for a day or two.

In special weather, ships crossing the Three Gorges Dam will pile up, and usually wait 3 to 5 days in front of the dam. If you encounter ship lock repairs, you will even have to wait 7 to 10 days to cross the Three Gorges Dam. Shipowners who have been operating freight for a long time said that the average waiting time for ships of their companies to pass the Three Gorges Dam is about 30 hours.

According to the above-mentioned management, the designed capacity of the Three Gorges Ship Lock is 50 million tons of one-way traffic each year. "The original capacity of this navigation capacity was maintained to 2030, but the current navigation demand far exceeds our expectations." The current capacity of the Three Gorges Ship Lock has approached its design capacity in 2013 ^[12]

Free admission to the Three Gorges Dam

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Since September 25, 2014, the Three Gorges Dam tourist attractions have free tickets for Chinese tourists (including Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan compatriots and overseas Chinese). The tourist attractions covered by this ticket for free include the Tanziling Park, the 185 viewing platform, and the Closure Memorial Park. After entering the Three Gorges Dam area, tourists need to pass the security check at the tourist interchange center and transfer to the scenic sightseeing bus to visit the attractions. Compared with the previous collection of tickets, the tourist tour methods, attractions and routes are basically unchanged. Scenic traffic services are paid services. Real-name appointments are required, and the maximum number of visitors per day is 40,000. ^[13]

Start time:

December 14, 1994.