Editing Three Gorges (section)

== Hydroelectric projects at the Three Gorges ==
{{Further|Three Gorges Dam|Gezhouba Dam|}}
[[File:Beauty and grandeur, the Yangtze gorges, travel poster, ca. 1930.jpg|thumb|upright|Travel poster for the Three Gorges Region (circa 1930).]]

In 1919, after [[Sun Yat-sen]] had put forward the concept in the Plan for Industrial Development of his {{ill|Founding Strategy|zh|建国方略}} ({{lang|zh|建国方略}}), experts investigated damming the Three Gorges, but it was not until 1994 that the Three Gorges project officially started.

In 1944, the [[Nationalist government]] recruited [[John L. Savage]], the Chief Engineer of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, who came to China and made a 10-day investigation of the Three Gorges. Afterwards, he wrote an enthusiastic report on the prospects of a dam. Construction was started on the first of the dams at Upper Tsing Yuan Tung, but was halted on August 15, 1947, because of the [[Chinese Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|title=October The National Archives in the regions…a monthly calendar of events open to the public|url=https://www.archives.gov/locations/calendar/09-october.pdf|publisher=U.S. National Archives|access-date=14 September 2010}}</ref>

In February 1958, as the expanded meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee was held at [[Nanning]] ({{lang|zh|南宁}}), the Three Gorges Project ({{lang|zh|三峡工程}}) was discussed for the first time, and fierce disputes broke out. In the end, this project was delayed. Over the following three decades, people continued to discuss it. In the early 1980s, people mentioned it once again, but after repeated discussions and investigations, it was again postponed. On March 6, 1992, a feasibility report was presented at the 5th Session of the 7th National People's Congress (NPC) for discussion and resolution. On April 3 of that year, the NPC voted on a resolution for the dam, and it was passed with an unusually low approval rate for the NPC with only 1767 of the 2633 members ({{percent|1767|2633|2}}) voting to support the dam.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chang |first1=Chun Yin Anson |last2=Zhangyang |first2=Gao |last3=Kaminsky |first3=Amanda |last4=Reams |first4=Tony G. |title=Michigan Sustainability Case: Revisiting the Three Gorges Dam: Should China Continue To Build Dams on the Yangtze River? |journal=Sustainability: The Journal of Record |date=14 November 2018 |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=204–215 |doi=10.1089/sus.2018.29141.cyac |doi-access=free }}</ref>