¡¡¡¡THREE GORGES DAM SITE, Hubei Province, Nov. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- A total of 130,000 single projects completed thus far for the Three Gorges Project have all met quality requirements, a engineer said here Friday.

¡¡¡¡Zhang Chaoran, engineer-in-chief with the China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation, said 80.94 percent of the finished works have been deemed high quality.

¡¡¡¡While building the gigantic water control project, the development corporation and other construction organizations have all been strict to quality requirements and have established a monitoring system to exercise quality control over the whole process, from procurement of raw materials to on-the-spot construction, said Zhang.

¡¡¡¡A panel of experts has been working under the State Council's Committee for the Construction of the Three Gorges Project since 1999 to tighten supervision and checkup in quality control.

¡¡¡¡Located 40 kilometers from Yichang City, central China's Hubei Province, the Three Gorges Project will consist of a 2,309-meter-long by 185-meter-high dam and 26 generating units with a combinedcapacity of 18.2 million kilowatts.

¡¡¡¡Upon completion in 2009, the project will be able to generate 84.7 billion kilowatts of electric power annually. Its permanent locks will allow ships of more than 10,000 DWT (dead weight tonnage) to pass.

¡¡¡¡The project, which began construction in 1993, will cost 180 billion yuan (about 21.69 billion US dollars). By late October this year, 140.38 million cubic meters of earth and stone had beendug, accounting for 125.69 percent of the designed workload, and 38.93 million cubic meters of earth and stone had been filled, making up 93.83 percent of the planned workload.

¡¡¡¡Workers have also poured 20.08 million cubic meters of concrete,or 75.16 percent of the designed workload, and installed 409,300 tons of steel structures and 30,800 tons of machinery and electronic equipment. Enditem