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| | |  | | | A part a giant turbine generator to be installed in the Three Gorges power plant is transported through the downtown street of Deyang, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, August 8, 2003. Produced in the Deyang city, it weighs 416 tons. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | The ancient plank roadways deep in the Three Gorges mountain area become easy to reach as the water level in the Yangtze River was raised after the completion of the enormous dam. A plank-paved roadway was built some 1,000 years ago above water and beneath the rock for salt and rice transport. [newsphoto] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A satellite photo taken by the QuickBird of the US, July 15, 2003, shows a full view of the mammoth-sized Three Gorges dam and part of its reservoir on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A satellite photo taken by the QuickBird of the US, July 13, 2003, shows a section of the mammoth-sized Three Gorges dam. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Travelling vessels parked at a wharf August 1 near the Changping Lake, which was shaped from the Little Three Gorges at the upper reach of the Daning river after Three Gorges damming forced the water level to raise to 135 meters above sea level.[newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Sun light beams falls upon the reservoir behind the Three Gorges dam on July 14, 2003. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Workers wave flags July 7 to celebrate a successful test run of the generator Unit II, the first of all 26 Three Gorges Project units that has been installed and finished a adaptation. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A boat sails in the Three Gorges reservoir collecting floating wastes behind the dam. As the Three Gorges dam blocked the body of the Yangtze River, wastes flowing down with the river are accumulating in the reservoir. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Local residents celebrate cargo boats entering a newly-constructed port at the Yangtze River Hubei section June 30, 2003. As water level of the Yangtze River rose after the Three Gorges reservior began to be filled, a couple of ports were built on the routes of former small streams of the Yangtze River. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A passenger ship passes the Three Gorges dam permanent shiplock, June 16, 2003. This is the first ship sailing through the 1,621-meter-long shiplock. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | An aerial view of the right-bank power plant is shown in this June,30 picture with the Yangtze River flowing behind. The construction of the right-bank powerhouse is the last major construction item of the Three Gorges Project after the completion of the left-bank powerhouse,spillway and the permanent shiplock. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Workers fix the Unit I of the Three Gorges Project first batch of generators, June 30, 2003. Scheduled to put into optional on August 20, the Unit I is to follow the Unit II, which has undergone a 72-hour test run. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A NASA photo taken from US satellite illustrates a detailed position of Gezhouba Project and the Three Gorges Project. The brown belt crossing the picture is the Yangtze River, which flows from right to left. The on-construction Three Gorges Project is the white area on the left, while the Gezhouba Project on the lower right. The gray area is part of the Yichang city. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A file photo shows the Three Gorges Project dam from the right bank of the Yangtze River. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A worker looks downwards at the construction site of the Three Gorges Project permanent shiplock. Giant cranes were operated along the bottom of a huge slot carved across a hill to accomadate a more than one-kilometer-long shiplock. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A passenger ship was led into a chamber of the Three Gorges Project permanent shiplock on a trial test June 16, 2003. The two-way five-step shiplock is able to pass 10,000-tonnage barge fleet. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | This diagram illustrates where in China the Three Gorges Project [left red bar at the center of the concentric circles], and the Gezhouba Project, [right red bar] are situated. The inner circle represents the power-distribution scale of the Gezhouba Project, while the outer one represents the Three Gorges Project. Built across the turbulent Yangtze River, both projects are able to control water flowing downwards from the shaded area as shown. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A passenger ship sails through the permanent shiplock of the Three Gorges Project on a trial test June 16, 2003. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Trucks dump earth and rocks at the end of an extending cofferdam as the Yangtze River water was diverted to flow through the dam of the Three Gorges Project. At the end of the project's second-phase which was signaled with the completion of the left-bank power house and the spillway, engineers blocked the Yangtze River again to force the water going through the dam so as to make room for the building of the right-bank powerhouse. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A file photo shows a full-view of the mammoth Three Gorges Project as the second construction phase was close to complete. The Yangtze River, world's thirld largest river, had been dammed and all its water diverted from the spillway,as shown in thlis photo. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A file photo, taken November 6,2002, shows construction site when the upper cofferdam was successfully closed. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | |
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The Three Gorges Project
