Three Gorges Dam by Chiang Kai-shek, began preliminary work on plans in the Three Gorges. In 1939, Japanese military forces occupied Yichang and surveyed the area. A design, the Otani plan, was completed for the dam in anticipation of a Japanese victory over China. In 1944, the United States Bureau of Reclamation head design engineer, John L. Savage, surveyed the area and drew up a dam proposal for the 'Yangtze River Project'. Some 54 Chinese engineers went to the U.S. for training. The original plans called for the dam to employ a unique method for moving ships; the ships would move into locks
Huangchuan Three Gorges Huangchuan Three Gorges The shortest gorge in Lianjiang River. Its length is less than a kilometer, and the width of the shore only 30 meters, frightened sheep can jump over this gorge. In the legend have a goat living on the right side of the river, it must be to the left of the mountain to eat grass every day. One day, when it skip the gorges, with a loud noise, cliff cave that the goat can't go home again. So it stood on the left side of the hill every day, year after year it turned into a statue