站在南京长江边的酒店露台，手里攥着刚收到的三峡大坝（Three Gorges Dam）明信片，突然想起去年秋天在宜昌西陵峡（Xiling Gorge）遇见的老船工。他抽着旱烟眯眼笑说："咱们这儿的水啊山啊都像是活过来的，你看那江雾升起来的时候，连屈原祠（Qu Yuan Temple）的飞檐都在云里头跳舞呢。"这话倒像是预言——3月18日那场"知音湖北来电宜昌"的文旅洽谈会，可不就是让沉睡的山水在南 ...

According to their studies, construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam resulted in a slight, measurable change in Earth's rotation: it slowed it by 0.06 microseconds. The apparent ...

China's middle class The realities of a market economy are often far from rosy -- as China is finding out : Three Gorges Dam It's one of the world's largest and most ambitious con ...

the chosen dam site just downstream of the world-famous Three Gorges scenic area; in December, Premier Li Peng formally declared the project open. The Chinese government has offered overseas ...

The Three Gorges Dam is a true energy giant. It has 34 massive generators that convert the river’s power into electricity and produce the equivalent of burning 50 million tons of coal or 25 ...

When the Three Gorges Dam - the largest hydroelectric dam in the world - was built it put a very large obstacle in the way of a trade route that had bee used for hundreds of years. So, to solve ...

Wushan County plans to make full use of its rich tourism resources, especially the three little gorges along the crystal-clear Daning River, to create a new tourism route to increase locals' income.

The Asian country intends to install a solar farm in space. One scientist has compared it to building a Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric project in orbit, just with a function of harvesting a different ...

China’s state-owned Three Gorges Energy has announced plans to invest in a massive integrated renewable energy base in the Taklamakan Desert, in the country's Xinjiang region. The total ...

Mega-buildings and dams like China’s Three Gorges Dam are subtly shifting Earth’s rotation. With its 40 billion cubic meters of water, the dam affects our planet’s spin, adding 0.06 ...