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river course suddenly narrows and the waters become turbulent. Sheer cliffs and steep mountains rise on either side, creating one of nature's most fantastic sights. The Three Gorges---Qutang, Wuxia and Xiling----start just after Fengjie and end near Yichang, stretch about 200 kilometers. The Gorges vary from 300metres at their widest to less than 100 meters at their narrowest. Qutang Gorge is the smallest and shortest Gorge, but grandest of the three. The Yangtze River, mighty and rapid here is suddenly

The Damming of the Yangtze River Since the 1920's, when the dam was first proposed, the Three Gorges Dam has been a topic for debate in the People's Republic of China. The construction of the world's largest hydro-electric project on the Yangtze River would be a detriment to the native flora and fauna, submerge rich farmlands, destroy archaeological sites, and force the evacuation of millions of people. Faced with international, as well as domestic, criticism about the ecological and social havoc

needed, the social, environmental and economic advantages and disadvantages and whether should it have been built? Firstly the Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, located in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China. The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity it can create up to 22,500 MW enough to power New York for 10 years. In 2012, the amount of electricity the dam generated was similar

In the beginning of the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, there were several problems. There were several protestors and opinions about the dam before the Three Gorges Dam project was even started.1 China has had history of several dam failures in the mid-1970s that were responsible for thousands of deaths. The three gorges (Xiling, Wu, and Qutang) have scenery that is a tourist attraction.2 The dam was going to be a little over 600 feet tall, 7500 feet wide, and hold over 97 trillion gallons

Three Gorges Dam The Three Gorges are known to be a famous tourist attraction for its beautiful scenery, located in northeastern China along the Yangzi River. The Yangzi River runs 3700 miles long, being the third longest river in the world after the Nile and Amazon Rivers. The Qutang Gorge, the Wuxia Gorge, and the Xiling Gorge are the three Yangzi River gorges that make up the Three Gorges. The Three Gorges are not only famous for its scenery, but also its disastrous

January 25, 2014, will remain a historic date for Chinese tennis: on that day Li Na defeated Dominika Cibulkova and became the first Chinese to win the Australian Open. It was her second Grand Slam after winning the 2011 French Open. Officials in Hubei – her native province - were so excited by the event that local Party chief Li Hongzhong and provincial Governor Wang Guosheng set up a welcome ceremony on January 27. They awarded the returning champion Rmb 800,000 ($132,000) as a manifestation of

In “The Cockroach” by Liu Yichang there are many underlying themes. The theme I chose to focus on was the involvement of the seven deadly sins. The whole story revolves around death and it leaves you wondering why that is, but it ties in to the moral of the story. Ding Pu is surrounded by death and tries to kill the cockroach. But he doesn’t allow these deadly sins to take over him, to kill the cockroach. The first character that led me to think the theme followed the seven deadly sins was the

Description Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis otherwise known as the Yangtze finless porpoise is one of the three recognised subspecies of the finless porpoise and is the only subspecies that resides in freshwater. Found up to 1,600 kilometres from the sea in the Yangtze River, this particular subspecies is the only porpoise species that lacks a true dorsal fin. Instead, it is replaced by a low ridge with small bumps running down the middle of the back that is covered with thick skin. The

enterprises that discharge heavy pollution, such as paper mills, have already closed down, and the central government will invest a large sum to build a series of large wastewater treatment plants in Chongqing City, Wanxian City, Fuling City and Yichang City. In addition, the catchment management, pre-impoundment clearing

load forecasting model and virtual load forecaster based on radial basis function neural networks Changhao Xia a,b,*, Jian Wang b,*, Karen McMenemy c a College of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, China Three Gorges University, Yichang Hubei 443002, China School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland BT9 5AH, UK c School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland BT9 5AH