#Travel#China#ThreeGorges Three Gorges Dam was built to prevent the Yangtze river from flooding and to produce power. It displaced officially 1.3 million people, but estimates go to 3.5+ million whose homes were submerged and family history lost.
#Travel#China#ThreeGorges Temple near Three Gorges with cliff coffins A LOT of steps. You could hire a sedan chair but we didn't have the heart to do that to anyone. We walked.
@XHNews: The shipping throughput of the Three Gorges Dam in China's Hubei Province exceeds 2 billion tonnes. #ThreeGorges #Project #China #water #dam https://t.co/MAl8j7zlH0