The Three Gorges Hydroelectric-Complex Project-Embankment Structure

The Three Gorges Hydropower Station is the Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project on the Yangtze River, also known as the Three Gorges Project. The Three Gorges Hydropower Station has more than ten functions, such as shipping, power generation, planting and so on. Yuantai Derun Group supplies structural tubes for the project.

The Three Gorges Hydropower Station is the largest hydropower station in the world and the largest engineering project ever constructed in China. The many issues such as immigration and environment caused by it have always been accompanied by huge controversy from the moment it was started. The Three Gorges Hydropower Station has more than ten functions, including shipping, power generation, planting, etc. The construction of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station was approved by the National People's Congress of China in 1992. Construction officially started in 1994. Water storage and power generation began on the afternoon of June 1, 2003, and it was completed in 2009. The Three Gorges Hydropower Station has a dam elevation of 185 meters, a water storage elevation of 175 meters, and a reservoir length of 2,335 meters. It has a static investment of 135.266 billion yuan and installed 32 hydropower units with a single capacity of 700,000 kilowatts. The last hydropower unit of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station was put into operation on July 4, 2012. This means that the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, with an installed capacity of 22.4 million kilowatts, has become the world's largest hydropower station and clean energy source on July 4, 2012.