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Three Gorges Dam to be open to tourists
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-01 08:52
China will open the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric
project, to tourists this summer, State media said Tuesday.
A maximum of 1,000 visitors a day would pay 68 yuan (US$8) per person to tour
the dam, which blocks the Yangtze River, the Xinhua news agency said.
"Visitors will get (a) spectacular view of water being discharged by the
Three Gorges Dam," the China Daily said on its Web site.
Tour ticket sales, which will start July 1, will not go far toward paying the
cost of building the dam, estimated at around US$25 billion.
Cruise ships plying the Yangtze routinely pass through the Three Gorges, but
access to the dam itself is limited.
Engineers blocked the Yangtze River at the dam in June 2003, filling a
reservoir for a project, which is a point of national pride, but some critics
fear the project will have negative influence on environment in the area.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been relocated from the area around the
reservoir, which has swallowed villages, cities, factories as well as hospitals.
The project began in 1993 and is expected to be completed by
2009.
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