(May 19, 1999) Canada network company, New Bridge (Xin Qiao) company has released their ATM network product for Three Gorges corporate network application, and so Three Gorges corporate network access platform was officially launched.

(December 8, 1999) An anticipated surge in overseas tourists wanting to cruise down the Yangtze River has failed to materialise, leaving ports near the Three Gorges full of idle luxury boats. Most of the 60 luxury vessels that travel through the area remain docked in Chongqing, Yichang and Wuhan, yesterday’s Beijing Morning Post reported. Last month, only two of the cruises were operating.

The number of overseas tourists taking a Three Gorges cruise has dropped from a peak of 100,000 in 1994 to fewer than 50,000 this year up to November.

(December 9, 1999) Redundant investment and cutthroat competition by cruise lines are ruining the tourist industry at the Three Gorges, China’s legendary scenic wonder, reported the December 8, 1999 Hua Sheng Bao (Hua Sheng Overseas Chinese Newspaper).

(December 16, 1999) Uneconomic and outmoded, the Three Gorges dam will have difficulty finding customers for its electricity in China’s rapidly modernizing electricity market, according to a new Probe International report

(November 29, 1999) After thousands of years of letting their sewage flow downstream and out to sea, Chongqing and other Yangtze cities now face the prospect of it staying in the water that laps their shores.

(October 1, 1999) The resettlement of up to two million people who will be flooded out of their homes by China’s massive Three Gorges dam is in chaos, according to a Chinese sociologist.

(July 9, 1998) Probe International is today launching the first bilingual Internet information news service about China’s Three Gorges dam, the world’s largest hydro-electric project. Although already under construction, debate about the controversial dam on China’s Yangtze river continues. Technical problems, such as rapidly accumulating silt and a weaker-than-expected rock foundation, have already slowed construction. Meanwhile popular resistance to the massive resettlement of nearly 2 million people is threatening to provoke conflict between the state and the affected public.

(January 8, 2006) Next year China will flood the Yangtze valley, and one of the world’s great sights will be lost forever. Go now before it’s too late, the author urges.

(January 9, 2006) Chongqing announces plans to draw tourists to the dam area.

(January 13, 2006) The water level in the reservoir after the dam is completed in 2009 will affect local scenic sights to some extent, but is expected to add to the beauty of the Three Gorges, the official Chinese news agency says.

(January 20, 2006) The temporary cofferdam in front of the Three Gorges Dam was demolished May 1, introducing the next phase of construction.

(January 20, 2006) Demolition of the Three Gorges cofferdam on May 1 has not caused a water-level rise near the main dam, engineers said, adding, however, that some scenic spots will be submerged when the reservoir is filled to 135 metres in June 2003.

(January 20, 2006) With clouds gathering over Huaneng Power International’s decision to invest in the controversial Three Gorges project, some research analysts have come to the mainland power company’s defence.

(January 20, 2006) A team of experts has deemed the Three Gorges dam ‘safe and reliable enough to hold water,’ the official Chinese news agency reports.