Yiling, Yichang
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Yiling District is a district of the prefecture-level city of Yichang, Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Created on July 30, 2001, the district includes most of the former Yichang County, wi
Tribe Of The Three Gorges
A shipyard on the southern side of the Yangtze (in Sandouping Town) seen from Liantuo Village (in Letianxi Town)
A quarry village
Three Gorges Dam
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The Three Gorges Dam, officially known as Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang,
Yiling, Yichang
…The district's seat of government is on the northern outskirts of Yichang urban area. Both Gezhouba Dam and the Three Gorges Dam are located within the district. The Xiling Bridge spans the Changjiang (Yangtze River) in the western part of Yiling District, connecting the towns…
The dam in September 2009
In his poem "Swimming" (1956), engraved on the 1954 Flood Memorial in Wuhan, Mao Zedong envisions "A Great Stone Wall, to catch the clouds and rains of Wushan as the fall" as "A Great lake shall rise upon the gorge!".
Model of the Three Gorges Dam looking upstream, showing the dam body (middle left), the spillway (middle of the dam body) and the ship lift (to the right).
Model of the Three Gorges Dam showing the ship lift and the ship lock. The ship lift is to the right of the dam body with its own designated waterway. The ship locks are to the right (northeast) of the ship lift.