With the construction of the largest water conservancy project in the world – Three Gorge Dam, the area around the dam become a good place to enjoy the grand momentum of this great project. In Three Gorges Dam tour, you can stand on different points to enjoy the dam, you also can know more about the dam and this project from the Three Gorges Project Exhibition Hall.
The Three Gorges Dam is the largest water conservancy project in the world. It is located on the middle part of Xiling Gorges, Sandouping in Yichang, Hubei Province. It is 38 kilometers away from the Gezhouba Dam at downstream. The Three Gorges Dam project includes main building project and diversion project two parts. The investment to the whole project is 95,460 billion RMB.
The Three Gorges Dam area is 15.28 square kilometers, including construction area and 54.6 square meters office and residential area. In the office and residential area, there is a four star standard hotel – Three Gorges Project Hotel, Three Gorges Project Exhibition Hall, the command center of Three Gorges Project construction, environmental protection park and modern biotope and so on. In future, the Three Gorges Dam area will become national standard forest park. The most pleasant stage about the combination of modern project and natural ecology will present to public.
The Three Gorges Project Exhibition Hall was completed and opened to public in October 1st, 1992. The vice Premier Zhou Jiahua ever autographed for the Three Gorges Project Exhibition Hall. The total area of Three Gorges Project Exhibition Hall is 6600 square meters, including Three Gorges Project construction and environment protection, immigration, technique development, generation of electricity, painting and calligraphy, photography and some other thematic exhibitions. The exhibition room in Three Gorges Project Exhibition Hall took internationally accepted standard exhibition room layout, equipped with movie theater, VIP room and so on. In the lobby of Three Gorges Project Exhibition Hall, there is longest colorful painting of whole scene of Yangtze Three Gorges, looks very grand.