Three Gorges Dam

1、 Take a direct train to the Three Gorges Dam: 2 trips per day.

@The 0# Three Gorges Dam is located in the Three Gorges Dam Tourist Area of Sandouping Town, Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province. It is situated in the Xiling Gorge section of the Yangtze River, at the eastern end of the Three Gorges Reservoir, with a controlled drainage area of approximately 1 million square kilometers. Founded in 1994, it integrates flood control, power generation, shipping, and water resource utilization. It is the main project of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, the core landscape of the Three Gorges Dam Tourist Area, and one of the largest water conservancy hub buildings in the world today

Three Gorges Dam is mainly composed of the main dam body for water retention and flood discharge, power generation buildings, navigation buildings, etc. The dam body is a concrete gravity dam with a dam axis length of 2309.47 meters and a total length of 2335 meters; The dam crest elevation is 185 meters and the dam height is 181 meters; The normal water level is 175 meters, with a total storage capacity of 39.3 billion cubic meters, including a flood control storage capacity of 22.15 billion cubic meters; The total installed capacity of power generation is 22.5 million kilowatts, with an annual power generation of over 100 billion kilowatt hours. The Three Gorges Dam can improve the navigation conditions of the Yangtze River, increasing its annual one-way navigation capacity from 10 million tons to 50 million tons and reducing transportation costs by 35% -37%#