This Day, That Year

Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.

On April 3, 1992, the construction plan of the Three Gorges project was passed by the National People's Congress. It is the world's largest hydropower project.

Located in Yichang, Hubei province, on the Yangtze River, it is a multifunctional water-control system consisting of a dam 2,309 meters long and 185 meters high, with 32 hydropower turbogenerators, a five-tier ship lock and a ship lift.