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(September 11, 2000) Construction for the giant dam of the Three Gorges hydropower project on the Yangtze River was expected to finish on May 20, an executive with the China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation said Sunday.

(September 11, 2000) Construction of China’s Three Gorges dam is likely to be finished by 20 May, nine months ahead of schedule, according to state media reports. But several generators will still have to be installed and the dam is expected to become fully operational in 2009.

(August 25, 2000) Some 80,000 residents in the Three Gorges dam area in central China are to be resettled to pave the way for the water to rise from 135 meters to 156 meters this year.

(July 20, 2000) Construction of the giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is due to end in two weeks’ time, marking the completion of the major part of the Three Gorges Hydropower Project.

(July 19, 2000) Shanghai: The China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC) is keen to emphasize the virtues of its flagship hydropower dam on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The state-owned company recently launched a propaganda campaign entitled "

(July 19, 2000) Yichang, Hubei: China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation began to issue bonds worth more than 3 billion yuan (about 370 million U.S. dollars) as of Thursday. It is the seventh debenture made by the corporation, developer of the multi-functional water control and power generation facility that is being constructed on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

(July 17, 2000) China plans to build a resource database to track endangered plants in the Three Gorges area with collections of live plants and seeds as well as a gene bank as the dam is due to be completed on May 20th.

(July 10, 2000) Big infrastructure projects like dams push about 10 million people a year out of their homes, according to the World Bank, and alarm bells have been ringing about a huge new project on Myanmar’s border with Thailand.

(June 30, 2000) Beijing: China’s State Council, the country’s cabinet, approved at a conference on Friday the raising of the water level in the Three Gorges Reservoir to 156 meters. The conference was hosted by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who is also chairman of the Committee for Construction of Three Gorges Project (CCTGP).

(June 22, 2000) Yichang: Chinese construction workers have started to install the first of the 12 more turbo-generators planned for the southern bank of the Yangtze River with the Three Gorges Project.

(February 29, 2000) It has been one of the most controversial public works projects in decades. Environmental activists are still enraged 12 years after work began. But despite all protests, work has finished on China’s Three Gorges Dam. It is scheduled to begin operations in 2008. … “All the fears we had before the dam have been confirmed. …”

(January 26, 2000) The Three Gorges Dam will transmit three million kilowatts of power every day to Shanghai next year after the completion of the power grid from Caijiachong to Shanghai, the municipal government announced today.

(July 22, 2008) The month-long algae outbreak on a tributary of the Yangtze River, blamed on large numbers of phosphor mines and processing factories, has sent an alert to environmental authorities to raise water treatment standards in the Three Gorges Dam area.

(October 2, 2008) Chinese steel manufacturer, Baosteel, recently inked an agreement with the Gezhouba Group to supply high strength steel plates for the last two water turbine generator sets in Three Gorges Right Bank Underground Power Station.