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Q&A: What was life on the Yangtze River like before the Three Gorges Dam was built?

July 9, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Question by Hawk_Nelson_Rox: What was life on the Yangtze River like before the Three Gorges Dam was built?
I had already tried googling it and I couldn’t come up with anything. Only how life after it was built. Thanks. And try to give your source or give me a website that I can go and visit myself.

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Answer by James™
Before the dam was built, there many floods that drowned a nearby city with population of several million. In 1954, a flood killed 30,000 people and left one million homeless. But the dam prevents this sort of thing from reoccurring.

A long time before the Three Gorges Dam, the Yangtze River was used for transportation, a lot more than it does now. The large cargo ships would have raised the water level and caused even more floods. The dam has reduced the amount of transportation up/down the river helping considerably to reduce the flooding of the riverside towns and cities.

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Why is the Yangtze River important to the three gorges dam?

July 7, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Question by Amieness: Why is the Yangtze River important to the three gorges dam?
I’m doing a case study on the three gorges dam for my GCSE, and missed out on a a week’s worth of notes, and completely missed why it was important to the dam, so am therefore stuck in answering my question. Help, please?

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Answer by Miss Understood
The People’s Republic of China decided to dam the Yangtze in 1994 with a steel and concrete wall that would take 15 years and over $ 30 billion to build. When completed, the dam will contain twice the amount of concrete of the Itaipu Dam in Brazil, currently the world’s largest. It will create a five trillion gallon reservoir hundreds of feet deep and about 400 miles long, able to absorb an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale. It will allow 10,000-ton freighters to easily navigate into the nation’s interior and increase agricultural and manufacturing opportunities. As the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant, the dam’s turbines are expected to create the equivalent electricity of 18 nuclear power plants.

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Q&A: Is the Yangtze river and yellow river the same?

July 5, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Question by Jesse: Is the Yangtze river and yellow river the same?
i have a report on the yangtze river, my friend told me it is also the yellow river. but i also saw a website saying that they were different. also i think the yangtze river is also called yangzi, is this correct

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Answer by Spock (rhp)
no — they are roughly parallel with the Yellow River being the farther north, flowing into the sea just to the south of Beijing. The Yangtze flowing into the sea near Shanghai [in the central coastal area], and the Xi near Hong Kong in the south.

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Is there any phone signal on the cruise on YangTze River? (It’s in China)?

July 4, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Question by isabelle: Is there any phone signal on the cruise on YangTze River? (It’s in China)?
likee, is there phone signal. WHILE on the cruise? or somewhere around there.
likee, is there phone signal. WHILE on the cruise? or somewhere around there. I live in China, by the way.
i live in China, by the way.

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Answer by Mich1
Do you know how much that phone call would cost you? Add satellite charges and roaming charges and international carrier charges….

There may be a signal, but it depends on where in the river you are.

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Is cruising the Yangtze river still worth it now that the dam is operational?

June 30, 2011 / / 2 Comments

Question by Winnie: Is cruising the Yangtze river still worth it now that the dam is operational?
Has anyone cruised down the Yangtze river and the Three Gorges recently? I heared rumors that the cruise would not be as dramatic since the dam has been in operation. Anyone have pictures? If you had to choose, is it more worth it to visit Guilin instead?

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Answer by drjkfu
To be honest, I was always told it wasn’t worth it BEFORE the dam. I lived in China for five years. I not once went on that cruise, and I have been to hundreds of places. My favorites for pure natural beauty (in no particular order) are Huangshan (shan=mountain), Lushan, Huashan, Zhouzhaigou, Guilin/Yangshuo, Zhangjiajie. Of these places I mention, Huangshan and Guilin/Yangshuo are most convenient. I am taking friends to Guilin/Yangshuo for my FOURTH visit next summer. The Li River cruise and a day on a bicycle through the villages between the Karst mountains are must do’s.

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Q&A: Where to begin to take a Yangtze Cruise?

June 27, 2011 / / 1 Comment

Question by Ilovewiki Long: Where to begin to take a Yangtze Cruise?
Where to begin to take a Yangtze Cruise? I am planning to visit Yangtze River this summer.

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Answer by Dafan
You can do the Yangtze cruise in two ways downstream and upstream. For a downstream cruise, your ship may begin from the port of Chongqing. While the usual starting point for a upstream cruise is from Yichang. There are also cruise ships runs from Wuhan or Shanghai upward.

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I plan to visit Yangtze river of China next year, when is the best time? How can I book Yangtze Cruise?

June 26, 2011 / / 2 Comments

Question by k l: I plan to visit Yangtze river of China next year, when is the best time? How can I book Yangtze Cruise?

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Answer by bookhotelandtour.com
April / May or Sept / Oct when weather is just right.

Check out the site listed.

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Are the Yangtze River and the Yangzi River the same thing?

June 25, 2011 / / 2 Comments

Question by scohenscohen: Are the Yangtze River and the Yangzi River the same thing?
Well im studying China and surrounding countries in social studies and I have to locate bodies of water on a map by using another map in my text book. But, I can’t seem to locate it. On the paper it tells me to find “Yangtze River”, but the only thing I see is the Yangtze River, which I was thinking maybe it just has two different spellings. But I’m not sure. Any help would be great!
I meant to put the only thing i can find on the map in the text book is “Yangzi”***

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Answer by function
Yes, same thing, different spellings. Yangzi is the more modern version.

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How many rivers are in the yangtze river?

June 24, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Question by Flossman: How many rivers are in the yangtze river?
I’m doing a project for school and i need to know how many waterfalls are in the Yangtze river and what the largest waterfall is. please help

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Answer by William Donovan
There are no waterfalls on the Yangtze below chungking. I have been on a boat all the down river from chungking to the sea.

Read this and it may help you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_River

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What is the best way to get to the departure city of the Yangtze River cruise.?

June 23, 2011 / / 1 Comment

Question by tenoral: What is the best way to get to the departure city of the Yangtze River cruise.?
We will be coming form Nanning, China

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Answer by wimbach
Train or plane

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