Three Gorges Dam dam. An important function of the dam is to control flooding, which is a major problem for the seasonal river of the Yangtze. Millions of people live downstream of the dam, with many large, important cities like Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai situated adjacent to the river. Plenty of farm land and China's most important industrial area are built beside the river. The reservoir's flood storage capacity is . This capacity will reduce the frequency of major downstream flooding from once every ten years to once every 100 years. The dam is expected to minimize the effect of even a "super"
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