The Yangtze Gorges

The Three Gorges

Through the Yangtze Gorges

  

• From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn

• To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles,

• Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me

• To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.

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The Three Gorges

　　 The Three Gorges, the most spectacular section of the Yangtze River, are filled with breathtaking sceneries.

With Baidi City, Fengjie in Chongqing Municipality to the west end and Nanjin Pass of Yichang in the Hubei province at the east, the Three Gorges, Qutang, Wu and Xiling, total 192 km in length.

  

                                                                                                                                                                    

The Three Gorges

• The Qutang Gorge, known for its magnificence, is only 8 km long.

• Wu Gorge, 44 km long, is famed for its deep valley and quiet beauty. Among the twelve peaks, the Goddess Peak is the most exquisite.

• Xiling Gorge, extending 66 km in length and full of turbulent currents and whirlpools, is one of the most dangerous shoals.

The Qutang Gorge

The Wu Gorge

The Wu Gorge

The Xiling Gorge

The Xiling Gorge

• 秭归屈原故里

The Three Gorges

• Broad valleys, mild climate, fertile soil

• Orange ripening in autumn, its sweet fragrance drifting to the boats on the river

• Rich water resources--the most ideal section of the Yangtze for building large water conservancy projects for the comprehensive exploitation of the river

China's Three Gorges Dam

  

• The Yangtze River is home to some of China's most spectacular natural scenery, a series of canyons known as the Three Gorges  

• China's biggest construction project since the Great Wall

                         

    

The Three Gorges Dam

  

• The Chinese government is constructing the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River near the city of Yichang. When the dam is completed early in the 21st century, a huge lake will form behind it, raising the level of the river upstream and submerging more than 100 towns.

                         

                             

The Three Gorges Dam

  

• The dangerous navigation channel will then be submerged in a placid lake.

• 高峡出平湖。                          

                             

  

                                                                                                                                                                    

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