How high is the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River?

However, 185m is not actually the actual height of the Three Gorges Dam, but the relative height based on the height of Wusongkou of the Yangtze River.

Chen Lei, deputy chief engineer of the Design Institute of the Yangtze River Committee, said that the maximum dam height of the Three Gorges Dam is 1.8 1 m, which is the actual height from the underwater foundation to the dam top.

The Three Gorges Hydropower Station, namely the Yangtze Three Gorges Water Control Project, is also called the Three Gorges Project. The Xilingxia reach of the Yangtze River in Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, and the Gezhouba Hydropower Station in the lower reaches form a cascade hydropower station.

The Three Gorges Hydropower Station is the largest hydropower station in the world and the largest construction project in China. However, many problems caused by it, such as immigration, environment and so on, have been accompanied by great controversy since the moment it started construction.

The Three Gorges Hydropower Station has more than ten functions such as shipping, power generation and planting. The Three Gorges Hydropower Station was approved by the National People's Congress of China in 1992 and officially started construction in 1994. On the afternoon of June 1 2003, water storage and power generation began, and it was fully completed in 2009.

The power transmission and transformation system of Three Gorges Hydropower Station is built and managed by State Grid Corporation of China. It is expected to install 15 500 kV high-voltage transmission lines to connect to the regional power grid.

The dam elevation of Three Gorges Hydropower Station is185m, the storage elevation is175m, the reservoir length is 2,335m, the total investment is 95.46 billion yuan, and 32 hydropower units with a single capacity of 700,000 kilowatts are installed.