(October 31, 2008) The last turbine generator on the right bank of China’s Three Gorges hydroelectric project was officially put into commercial operation on Oct 30, Xinhua reports.

(November 3, 2008) A controversial plan to dam China’s upper Yangtze in order to redirect water to central Yunnan and its capital Kunming may be a Trojan Horse for the cascade of dams proposed for the area including famed Tiger Leaping Gorge, but postponed due to unprecedented protests from the press and public in 2004. 

(September 10, 2002) ‘How China’s ruling Communist Party manages the environmental, social, economic and political tensions converging on such places as Tiger Leaping Gorge … will be the most important story determining China’s near-term political stability.’

(September 10, 2002) ‘Experts like Chen Guojie of the China Academy of Sciences have expressed their concern about the "rampant" overdevelopment of the rivers in China’s southwestern regions.’

(September 8, 2002) All but a few key archeological projects in China have been halted, so their staff can rescue relics in the path of the south-north water-diversion project.

(September 5, 2002) ‘Bad dams and bad economics are apparently still alive and kicking five years after the World Commission on Dams,’ says Ute Collier, author of a new report on dams from the Worldwide Fund for Nature.

(September 1, 2002) Output to exceed 360 billion kwh over the next five years, project authority says.

(September 1, 2002) ‘Construction of the main dams [at Tiger Leaping Gorge] is still scheduled to start in 2008 and the hydro-power plant is due to begin generating electricity in 2015.’

(August 29, 2002) The last phase of construction is likely to be completed in 2008, a year ahead of schedule, a project official says.

(August 29, 2002) Scientists say they have discovered more hominid fossils in the Three Gorges region than in any other part of China, with traces of human activity found there that date back more than 2 million years.