(October 1, 1999) China’s biggest construction project since the Great Wall generates controversy at home and abroad.

(August 31, 1999) "the Three Gorges Dam is an open project, so we will continue to employ more foreign experts to help supervise and give consultancy to the construction in a bid to integrate China’s fine traditions with advanced world management concepts and make sure that the Three Gorges Project will last for a thousand years."

(August 31, 1999) …workers are now engaged in pouring concrete for the dam, as concrete is needed for the permanent ship lock, the riverbed dam, and the power plants on the left bank of the Yangtze.

(August 1, 1999) Atkinson has received a contract from the China Three Gorges Project Development Corporation (CTGPC) to serve in an advisory capacity preliminarily specified for one year for Phase 2 of the project, which includes the construction of spillway, powerhouse, shiplock, and shiplift.

(December 30, 1998) Prime Minister Zhu Rongji Wednesday warned engineers building the massive Three Gorges Dam to avoid "carelessness or negligence" in its construction, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency said.

(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.