Which is bigger, Baihetan Hydropower Station or Three Gorges Hydropower Station?

The Three Gorges Hydropower Station is very big.

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, namely the Yangtze Three Gorges Water Control Project, is also called the Three Gorges Project. The Xilingxia section of the Yangtze River in Yichang City, Hubei Province, China and the Gezhouba Hydropower Station in the lower reaches form a cascade hydropower station. 1994 officially started construction. In the afternoon of June 1 2003, water storage and power generation began, and it was fully completed in 2009.

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The economic benefits of the Three Gorges Project are mainly reflected in power generation. The project is a giant power supply point in the middle line of china xd East Power Transmission Project, and the generated power will be mainly sold to Hubei, Henan, Hunan, Jiangxi and Chongqing in Central China Power Grid, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui in East China Power Grid and Guangdong in South China Power Grid, which can alleviate the tight power supply situation in China.

Before the impoundment of the Three Gorges, the annual one-way traffic volume of Chuanjiang River was only 6.5438+million tons, and 10,000-ton ships could not reach Chongqing at all. The Three Gorges Project ended the history that "Sichuan has never sailed at night since ancient times". Through several impoundments of the Three Gorges, the navigation conditions of the Sichuan River have been improved day by day. In 2009, the freight volume passing through the Three Gorges Dam was about 70 million tons.

The above content is referenced from Baidu Encyclopedia-Three Gorges Hydropower Station