Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze

� Project expected to take 17 years; completion expected in 2009.

� An estimated 250,000 workers are involved in the project.

� The Three Gorges Reservoir will inundate 632 square kilometers (395 square miles) of land.

� An estimated 1.2 million people will be resettled by the dam.

� The project's 26 hydropower turbines are expected to produce 18.2 million kilowatts, up to one-ninth of China's output.

� The amount of concrete totals 26.43 million cubic meters, twice that of the Itaipu project in Brazil, currently the world's largest hydroelectric dam.

Source: Chinese government

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/asian.superpower/t hree.gorges/

Do you believe that this is a good thing or a bad thing to have happen to China?

Personally I think it will be good, yet it has its cons like everything does.