THE THREE GORGES DAM, CHINA

The Three Gorges Dam Site. To record their contribution, labour, hook, pulley, machinery, material, men catching animals with net to indicate that this dam avoids floods, and other icons are carved on the wall of the dam.

Carvings on the wall of the Three Gorges Dam Site, China. Procession of people praying children in the baskets are some of them. Surprisingly a small boy in a basket is being let of into the river like Kunthi's son Karna in the Indian epic Mahabharata. 

At this point of the Three Gorges Dam in China, ships are lifted from the downstream of the river to the upper level of the reservoir using wonderful engineering and mechanical technology. 

In these apartments built in the bases of mountains up to the top villagers displaced in the Three Gorges Dam are rehabilitated with more facilities than they had in the village houses. 

The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, China, is the world's largest hydroelectric dam. Completed in 2012, it serves as flood control, power generation, and better navigation arrangement. Its capacity is 22,500 megawatts, contributing to China's energy needs 2 percent of China's total energy requirement, producing 100 terawatt-hours annually. The dam is 2,335 metres long, 185 metres high, with the reservoir extending to 600 kms, covering 1,084 square kms. It has 32 main turbines and can manage a maximum water discharge of 116,000 cubic meters per second. This dam protects millions from floods. It improved shipping along the Yangtze River, boosted trade. This dam displaced 14 lakh people, submerged 13 cities, 140 towns, and 1,350 villages. Before the Chinese Government resettle the displaced people, some migrated to Beijing, Xi'an, and Tibet. There is dissatisfaction in the rehabilitation of the displaced people.