When was the Three Gorges Project controversial?

The Yangtze River is the fourth largest river in the world and the largest river in China. This is a generous gift from God to our Chinese nation. Now, the Yangtze River has become what it is today, with a population of 450 million, contributing 75% of the total output value. There was almost no flood in the Yangtze River in the Han Dynasty, and there were few floods before the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Since modern times, the Yangtze River has suffered three greatest damages. One is the Great Leap Forward, with grain as the key link, logging for fields and logging for steelmaking. The second time was the "Cultural Revolution", when the educated youth went up the mountain and saw dense trees. The third time is from 1980s to now-the power "market" plundered the resources of the Yangtze River. This third injury is far more than the second, and it may be irreparable. The fate of the Yangtze River shows that it is almost impossible for human beings to recover from the damage caused by the technology they have mastered from nature. This is the fundamental reason why the Yangtze River has become what it is today.

The Yangtze River has a lot of water and is very docile. How much coal and oil can we save if we use this water to generate electricity? From the beginning, Sun Yat-sen, whether he was called president or general secretary, was actually the head of China's centralized and autocratic system, talking about how much electricity the Yangtze River could generate. At that time, the climax of world hydropower was coming, and I vaguely knew that water could be turned into electricity as long as a machine was installed. Then in the era of the national government, just in time to catch up with the peak of hydropower construction in the world, we should make great efforts to build rivers.

China people always lag behind the world trend. When they were crazy, they built dams in America, Europe and Egypt. The United States and the former Soviet Union are crazy. This large-scale water transfer project transferred seven major rivers in Canada to Southern California and Mexico. Water from Siberia is transported to Europe. Under such knowledge and atmosphere, the National Government and China in the era of American Army Corps of Engineers said that the Yangtze River was so good, how could it not be built?

The main financial support for the Three Gorges Project is called "Three Gorges Construction Fund" (accounting for 40% of the working capital), which is scraped from every power user living in People's Republic of China (PRC). In other words, as long as you live on the land of China and use electricity, you have to pay extra for the Three Gorges every time you use electricity, including Northeast China and Tibet, where there is no benefit of the Three Gorges power generation; Whether your attitude towards this project is for or against it.

The authorities of the Three Gorges Project claim that it has four major advantages: first, flood control. The second power generation. Third, it is conducive to shipping. Fourth, it is conducive to regional development, that is, immigrants get rid of poverty and live a happy life.

The Three Gorges Project has no effect on controlling tributary floods. The flood regulation capacity of 22 1 m3 advocated by the Three Gorges Project is less than one tenth of the total flood.

During the flood of 1998, Zhu discovered a phenomenon: the water volume was not the largest, but the water level was the highest in history. Why? Because the river bed is very high. Why is the riverbed high? Sediment deposition. Why is there so much sediment? Destroy forest vegetation.

It is said that the second function of the Three Gorges Project is to generate electricity. Anyone familiar with the electricity market knows that although China is a planned economy, it is difficult for the project to obtain market supervision. The biggest problem with the planned economy is that all the money is allocated from above, and it is said that you can only use it. The result is that the applicants don't care about the results of the project. What they are most concerned about is whether they can go to the project. As long as they get on the project and get the money, it's over. This makes China's power market fluctuate violently, with power surplus, power shortage and power failure.

The third advantage they claim is that it is good for shipping. That is, the 10,000-ton ship went straight to Chongqing, that is, the reef disappeared after the water rose. As far as water depth is concerned, large ships can go straight to Chongqing. Later the opposition said that the water was deep enough. How to drill the 10,000-ton Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge? How to drill Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge? Bridge opening is not tall enough. The authorities subsequently changed the wording to "10,000-ton fleet"

The Three Gorges has always been said to be the best in the world. In fact, there is another first, that is, there has never been such a decision in the world: to build such a huge project in the middle of a vital river, on a traffic artery, in a densely populated place and in a river section with very fragile geological ecology.

The fourth benefit is how happy immigrants are. Considering that there are too many problems left by China reservoir immigrants since 1949, this time they said that they would use a new method, that is, "generous immigration"-instead of paying the compensation directly to the immigrants, they would pay it to the immigration officials.