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The Three Gorges Dam Impact - Benefits & Positive Impact

Electrical Power Generation

The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydroelectric power station by total capacity, which will be 22,500 MW.

The Three Gorges Hydropower Plant ranks the biggest one in the world with remarkable power generation benefit. Presently, the electricity has been sent unceasingly to Central China, East China, Guangdong, and Chongqing with maximum transmission range of 1000 Km.

Annual Production of Electricity

Flood Control

Controlling flood is one of the most significant functions of the Three Gorges Dam, and flooding used to be a major problem for the seasonal Yangtze River. With millions of people living downstream of the dam and many large and important cities like Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai situated adjacent to Yangtze River, flooding control has been one of the most issues for China.

The flood storage capacity of Three Gorges Dam Reservoir is 22 Cubic Meters, and this capacity can reduce the frequency of major downstream flooding from once every ten years to once every 100 years.

Cruise Ships Navigation

The installment of ship locks and equipped with a ship lift on Dam, the Yangtze Three Gorges cruise ships heading towards much safer.
Besides, the Three Gorges Dam reservoir goes as far as to the southwest metropolis Chongqing, therefore it improves 660 kilometers waterway, and largely enable 10000 – tonnage fleets to navigate between Shanghai and Chongqing. The annual one – way navigation capacity of the Yangtze at the dam will be upgraded from ten million tons to fifty million tons.

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