The file photo taken in October 1997 shows
the Zhongbao Island in the Yangtze River in Yichang, central China's Hubei
Province. The Zhongbao Island has submerged in the 2,309-meter-long and
185-meter-high Three Gorges Dam, whose construction was started on July 1,
1994 with the island at its core. (Xinhua
Photo)