When I travel, I have the opportunity to see nature’s beauty and wonder. I feel insignificant compared to what nature can create. However, I have been in awe of formidable man-made structures as well, ...

Discover the fascinating story of China's Three Gorges Dam, one of the world's greatest infrastructure achievements. This video covers the dam's origins, inspired by Sun Yat-sen, through decades of ...

BEIJING – Chinese engineers Tuesday blew up a temporary barrier used during construction of the Three Gorges Dam, unleashing the full force of the Yangtze River upon the world's largest hydroelectric ...

In China, some call the project China’s second Great Wall. That’s a pretty apt description of the Three Gorges Dam, a monumental project that will control the giant Yangtze River with a dam that is ...

At least 14 people were killed Saturday in southern China because of seasonal rains and flooding. Three floodgates of the Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze River were opened as the water level ...

In 2003, China's Three Gorges Dam began filling a reservoir that by 2008 will be 360 miles long and 574 feet deep, the largest man-made body of water in the world. Some 1.2 million people will be ...

BEIJING, Sept. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The opening ceremony of the 16th China Yangtze River Three Gorges International Tourism Festival was held in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province on ...

China’s six-year-old war with Japan this week was at its gravest stage since the retreat from Burma a year ago. North of Changsha the Jap had opened a new, three-pronged drive with 50,000 men. Behind ...

The well-known and enormously controversial Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) on the Yangtze River, China, impounded about $9.936 \times 10^{9} m^{3}$ of water (between Qingxichang and Huanglingmiaodou) ...

Owner/operator: China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd. After nine years of construction, installation, and testing, the Three Gorges Dam is now complete. On May 23, 2012, the last main generator finished its ...