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| ”” | | Three Gorges damming on Yangtze successful | | Xinhuanet 2002-11-06 09:56:56 | | |
With the closure of the man-made diversion canal
completed at the Three Gorges Project Wednesday morning, the Yangtze,
China's longest river, is fully stopped from natural flow at the famed
Three Gorges.
The diversion canal built during the construction of the
Three Gorges Project, a huge hydropower project on China's Yangtze River,
was closed at 9:48 am Wednesday, signifying the 6,300-km-long Yangtze
River has been completely dammed.
The damming of the Three Gorges Project's diversion
canal on the Yangtze River was successfully completed at 9:48 a.m.
Wednesday.
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The giant Three Gorges Project has succeeded in staying
within budget and time limit, said a senior manager with the China Yangtze
River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation on Tuesday.
Special anti-corruption measures have ensured the
massive Three Gorges dam project has been free of graft and embezzlement
since its launch in 1993, according to a senior project manager.
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Hundreds of archeologists from around China, devoted to
the protection of cultural relics in the dam area of the Three Gorges, can
feel the clock ticking as the water of the Yangtze River, China's longest,
is ready to fill the partially-built reservoir.
Fengjie, a historic town in southwest China's Chongqing
Municipality, came to an end after more than 2,300 years.
A second damming of the Three Gorges on the middle
reaches of the Yangtze River in November willnot negatively affect nearby
scenic sites, said a local municipal official Tuesday.
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Although the project developers are now technically well
prepared for the silting problem, said Ji Xuewu, a well-known Chinese
hydrologist, a thorough understanding of the problem is necessary because
it affects the Three Gorges Reservoir and the lower reaches of the Yangtze
River.
China has begun taking measures to prevent landslides
and other potential geological hazards at the site of the Three Gorges
Reservoir on China's Yangtze River.
A total of 130,000 single projects completed thus far
for the Three Gorges Project have all met quality requirements, a engineer
said Friday.
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