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On this page, you will add the links to the web sites you have used on your Pros and Cons page and also web sites that you used for the pictures you have placed in your folder. In the Printed Materials section, you will add the sources for information you have found from books, magazines, or other printed materials.

Online Resources: [|WWW.Google.com] By Chinese Citizen [] (CNN) [] (a great picture on the three gorges location) [] (Great facts about the three gorges dam) [] (BBC news) [] (Plans before the three gorges started) [] (BBC news) [](Google) [] [] [] [] [] [](Three Gorge Dam Earthquake) [](Three Gorge Dam) [|http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/3gorges.htm](Three Gorge Dam) [] [] (The Three Gorges Dam: Part IV, Will It Work?) movies: [] [] websites: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] pictures: [] [] [] [|http://www.pictures.com] [] [|http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~vanti20m/classweb/website/images/photogallery/landslides.jpg] [|http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~sabo/sanxia/lzy0.jpg] [] [] [] [] [] until here

4-SR thinks this website is quite good [|click here] to see it To see a map of the Yangtze River [|click here.] 4-SR found a picture of some trackers [|click here] to see Printed Materials:

The Yangtze River (Changjiang), over 6,300 kilometers long, is the largest and longest river in China, and the third-longest in the world, next only to the Nile in northeast Africa and the Amazon in South America. The source of the Yangtze River lies to the west of Geladandong Mountain, the principal peak of the Tanggula Mountain chain in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, southwest of China. The river flows from west to east through provinces of Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu as well as the city of Shanghai, finally emptying into the East China Sea. With plenty of rainfall all year round, the Yangtze River is named the golden watercourse. The most impressive section of the river is the three Yangtze River gorges: Qutang Gorge, Wuxia Gorge and Xiling Gorge, collectively known as Sanxia, or the Three Gorges. From: Chinese Citizen's member,- Alice
 * The lives along the Yangtze has survived for thousands of years. It has been one of the most important rivers in the East China.**

=The Three Gorges Dam: Part III, The Human Cost= July 26, 2003 10:27 PM | [|No Comments] The Yangtze river valley is one of the richest cultural sites in China. Archaeologists were not supported in the area until 2000, at which point they could only rescue about 10% of the artifacts now under water. The area contains extensive late-Neolithic remains from the Daxi culture (ca. 5000-3200BC) and the Chujialing culture (3200-2300BC), but the most promising finds are from the Ba culture, an obscure group that archaeologists are discovering formed the foundations for far more of China's cultural heritage than previously thought. They appear to be 1,000 years older than was believed and to have had more sophisticated art than the Yellow River societies of the same period. The cultural elite won't be alone in their suffering. Approximately 2 million people will have to relocate to accommodate the new reservoir. Already hundreds of thousands have been moved, but serious problems are starting to arise. Government Officials admit that there is insufficient land for those needing to relocate, and many are returning to their homes in protest. In August of 2002, nearly 900 people returned to the town of Guonho to live in tents and shacks for lack of available jobs at the site of relocation. Dr. John Byrne says, "one of the tragedies of this [project], if just from a regional standpoint, is that the land that is going to be flooded is some of the most fertile in China. The land to where the population is to be relocated is much less fertile." The compensation due to those who resettle is well below market value, to the point that in combination with the poor resettlement options, foreign nations are calling the resettlement a violation of human rights. Those going through the government-sponsored resettlement program are receiving as little as one third what those who organize their own resettlement are receiving. The demolition of derilict housing and waterfront accomodation in the City of Wanzhou. This area of town is being demolished to allow the water level in the reservoir be brought to full height upon completion of the dam.
 * Vast Tang Dynasty (618-907) ruins at Mingyueba, which cover 150,000 square meters and contain at least 20 stone buildings, 20 tombs, and Buddhist sculptures that constitute the best preserved Tang Dynasty site in the region.
 * The Da Zu Stone Sculptures, created during the Southern Sung Dynasty (1127-1279) when a Bhuddist monk and his followers spent 70 years engraving Buddhist figures into the rock slopes and cave, and include a 31-meter-long Sakyamuni sleeping on his side.
 * Feng Du, a "Ghost City" representing both heaven and hell.
 * The Shibaozhai, an eleven-story Stone Treasure Storehouse, whose sloping tile roof, spiral staircase and delicate classical entrance have long been considered an architectural miracle.
 * The Qu Yuan Shrine in the Wu Gorge, where people pay their highest respects to the earliest poet-in-exile in Chinese history.
 * The White Crane Ridge and the Dragon Bone Rock, which have marked the water-level for 1200 years and contain vital information about the changes in climate, navigation and water management. On them are carved the calligraphy of more the 300 of the most famous writers, poets, and artists in Chinese history.
 * 1800 year old walkways along the cliffs of the Daning River, constructed by digging holes into solid rock seven hundred meters above the water, inserting beams, and paving the road with planks of wood.

The Three Gorges Project has seen over 1.3 million people re-located, from conditions of poverty to relative levels of comfort. Not all Chinese citizens wanted to move, obviously, but many saw it as a way to escape the desperately poor living conditions they had. Almost entirely new cities had to be built higher up on the steep banks of the resevoir, including new bridges and erosion control. The entire project cost only $30b. This seems like a ludicrously low price given the scale of the project. However, Chinese building practises and environmental controls do not hamper projects the way they do in Europe and USA. Having seen the construction first hand, you have to worry about safety and environmental damage such a project costs. However, China will save huge sums of money - and in fact already has, by eliminating devastating flooding on the Yangzi with the Dam and by selling of the energy created by the hydro plant. The project submerges 13 cities, 140 towns, 1352 villages, 600 factories, and 1200 archeological projects. An engineering marvel, but fundamentally flawed project. The demolition of derilict housing and waterfront accomodation in the City of Wanzhou. This area of town is being demolished to allow the water level in the reservoir be brought to full height upon completion of the dam.

The Three Gorges Project has seen over 1.3 million people re-located, from conditions of poverty to relative levels of comfort. Not all Chinese citizens wanted to move, obviously, but many saw it as a way to escape the desperately poor living conditions they had. Almost entirely new cities had to be built higher up on the steep banks of the resevoir, including new bridges and erosion control. The entire project cost only $30b. This seems like a ludicrously low price given the scale of the project. However, Chinese building practises and environmental controls do not hamper projects the way they do in Europe and USA. Having seen the construction first hand, you have to worry about safety and environmental damage such a project costs. However, China will save huge sums of money - and in fact already has, by eliminating devastating flooding on the Yangzi with the Dam and by selling of the energy created by the hydro plant. The project submerges 13 cities, 140 towns, 1352 villages, 600 factories, and 1200 archeological projects. An engineering marvel, but fundamentally flawed project.

Land Slides near the three gorges dam area!!!

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