Water Conservancy Construction of Yangtze River

Yangtze River History - Three Gorges Project

It was recorded that there happened about 200 times floods in the Yangtze River Basin between 185 BC (Han Dynasty) and 1911 (end of Qing Dynasty). It is almost happened once in ten years. The heavy flood has been happened on Yangtze River in the year of 1948, 1949, 1860, 1870 in the 19th century and 1931, 1935, 1949, and 1954 in the 20th century. For example, the heavy flood in 1931 submerged about 340 hectares fields in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River; 28,000,000 people were affected by this flood; and Wuhan City was submerged. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the Basin Program Institution has been set up to make plans for the multipurpose use of the Yangtze River Basin. In the development of Yangtze River history, Three Gorges Dam is the famous water-control project all over the world.

Yangtze River History - Irrigation and Drainage of Stagnant Water

There built over 570 dykes, and formed the irrigation system which combined the conservancy and conduction together. Among them, there are 15 large scale irrigation areas which as large as 60,000 hectares; and the Dujiangyan irrigation area has been enlarged to 533,000 hectares from its original 200,000 hectares.

Yangtze River History - Generate Electricity

In the late of 1990, there were 98 over 10000 kilowatt hydropower stations which have been built or under construction. The planed install gross capacity was 185,060,000 kilowatt, and the annual generating capacity was 86,700 millions.

Yangtze River History - Navigation

Since the system of the main stream of Yangtze River has been improved, Yangtze Cruise is easy to ship through Yangtze River. Even in narrow stream segment, more and more ships are allowed to cross.

According to Yangtze River history, with the convenience of the navigation, more and more freighters can cross Yangtze River as soon as possible.