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While increasing power supply, the main objective of the Project is flood control. When completed, it is believed that the massive Project will be able to control the flooding problem of the upper Yangtze River effectively.
Construction of the Project is divided into 3 phases: the 1st phase (1993-1997) is for broadening the waterway for navigation after the cease of flow; it was completed at the end of 1997. The 2nd and present phase (1998-2003) is about the diversion of the River, bringing the first turbo-generator units and permanent shiplock into operation. The 3rd one (2004-2009) is to complete the power plant on the right and the remaining construction work of the whole dam.
More than 50 billion RMB have been invested in the Project, amounting to 25% of the total, up to this May.
Clean power will be generated after the Project has been brought into operation by not producing or releasing CO2, SO2, and other NOX, it will be helpful in reducing air pollution. Though the power production of the Project will not produce any environmental pollution, it will have an ecological legacy, mainly on the relocation of more than 1 million people. This will change the local ecology and environment, therefore; careful steps have to be taken to overcome these negative impacts.
In this two-and-a-half hours talk in Putonghua, Mr Lu Youmei, President of the China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corporation, will give a detailed description of the Project, the issues of interest and the progress to date. Co-organised by the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Science and Hong Kong Society of Scholars; the talk will be held on October 16 (Tuesday) from 9:30am to 12 noon, at the Council Chamber, 8th Floor, Meng Wah Complex, the University of Hong Kong.
Members of the media and public are cordially invited to attend. For enquiries, please contact Miss Winnie Lai of the China Affairs Unit of University's External Relations Office, Tel: 2859-2611.
A Talk on “Progress of the Three Gorges Project”to be held at the HKU October 16
12 Oct 2001
A megaproject of global interest, the Three Gorges Project is presently in its eighth year of construction. When completed in 2009, a megadam rising 185 metres above the Yangtze River bed with its of 26,700-megawatt turbines, each equal to a medium-sized nuclear station, will churn out over 18,000 megawatts of electricity. The complex, dam and turbines, stretching 2.3 kilometres between the banks of the world’s third longest river, will become the world's largest dam.
While increasing power supply, the main objective of the Project is flood control. When completed, it is believed that the massive Project will be able to control the flooding problem of the upper Yangtze River effectively.
Construction of the Project is divided into 3 phases: the 1st phase (1993-1997) is for broadening the waterway for navigation after the cease of flow; it was completed at the end of 1997. The 2nd and present phase (1998-2003) is about the diversion of the River, bringing the first turbo-generator units and permanent shiplock into operation. The 3rd one (2004-2009) is to complete the power plant on the right and the remaining construction work of the whole dam.
More than 50 billion RMB have been invested in the Project, amounting to 25% of the total, up to this May.
Clean power will be generated after the Project has been brought into operation by not producing or releasing CO2, SO2, and other NOX, it will be helpful in reducing air pollution. Though the power production of the Project will not produce any environmental pollution, it will have an ecological legacy, mainly on the relocation of more than 1 million people. This will change the local ecology and environment, therefore; careful steps have to be taken to overcome these negative impacts.
In this two-and-a-half hours talk in Putonghua, Mr Lu Youmei, President of the China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corporation, will give a detailed description of the Project, the issues of interest and the progress to date. Co-organised by the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Science and Hong Kong Society of Scholars; the talk will be held on October 16 (Tuesday) from 9:30am to 12 noon, at the Council Chamber, 8th Floor, Meng Wah Complex, the University of Hong Kong.
Members of the media and public are cordially invited to attend. For enquiries, please contact Miss Winnie Lai of the China Affairs Unit of University's External Relations Office, Tel: 2859-2611.
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