This photo taken on June 3, 2003 shows the Three Gorges Reservoir on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The water level reaches, as planned, 114.29 meters high on the sluice gate at 19:00 Tuesday. (Xinhua Photo)	This photo taken on June 3, 2003 shows an airscape of the Three Gorges Reservoir on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The water level reaches, as planned, 114.29 meters high on the sluice gate at 19:00 Tuesday. (Xinhua Photo)	This photo taken in January, 2003 shows the concrete mixing system at the Three Gorges project site in central China's Hubei Province. After a decade-long construction, the gigantic Three Gorges Project, which has been longed for by the Chinese people for about a century, is closer to completion as the project's reservoir started storing water officially on June 1, 2003.(Xinhua Photo)
This photo taken in August, 2000 shows the multimedia control center of the Three Gorges project in Hubei Province. After a decade-long construction, the gigantic Three Gorges Project, which has been longed for by the Chinese people for about a century, is closer to completion as the project's reservoir started storing water officially on June 1, 2003. (Xinhua Photo)	This photo taken in July, 1999 shows the concrete transmitters at the Three Gorges project site in central China's Hubei Province. After a decade-long construction, the gigantic Three Gorges Project, which has been longed for by the Chinese people for about a century, is closer to completion as the project's reservoir started storing water officially on June 1, 2003. (Xinhua Photo)	This photo taken in August, 1998 shows the construction cite of the Three Gorges project in Hubei Province. After a decade-long construction, the gigantic Three Gorges Project, which has been longed for by the Chinese people for about a century, is closer to completion as the project's reservoir started storing water officially on June 1, 2003. (Xinhua Photo)