Three Gorges Dam to be completed by May |
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(According to Xinhuanet) -- Workers with the Three Gorges Project that is being built at the middle reaches of the In an interview with Xinhua, Li Yong'an, general manager of China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development and Construction Corporation, said the dam would be put into use when the summer flood season began, and the water level in the Three Gorges Reservoir would be rising to 156 meters after the flood season. By late 2005, the workers built the dam to the height of 160 meters from the southern bank of the Yangtze. In the meantime, the workers are requested to accomplish two more main tasks this year, namely, to complete the two-way five-tier shiplock facility built on the northern bank of the Yangtze and to prepare for the planned installation of 12 more turbogenerators on the southern bank in 2007 and 2008, according to the general manager. Launched in 1993, the Three Gorges Project, including a 185-m-high dam and 26 generators on both banks of the Yangtze, is being built in three phases on the middle reaches of the |