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The Three Gorges Dam (simplified Chinese: 长江三峡大坝; traditional Chinese: 長江三峽大壩; pinyin: Chángjiāng Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, located in the Yiling District of Yichang, in Hubei province, China. It is the world's largest electricity-generating plant of any kind. Navigating the dam Ship locks for river traffic to bypass the Three Gorges Dam, May 2004 [edit] Locks The installation of ship locks is intended to increase river shipping from ten million to 100 million tonnes annually, with transportation costs cut by 30 to 37%. Shipping will become safer, since the gorges are notoriously dangerous to navigate.[54] Each of the two ship locks is made up of five stages, with transit time at around four hours. Maximum vessel size is 10,000 tons.[75] Critics[who?] argue, however, that siltation will clog ports such as Chongqing within a few years based on the evidence from other dam projects.[which?] The locks are 280 m long, 35 m wide, and 5 m deep (918 x 114 x 16.4 ft).
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Trackers on the Yangtse River, China, in 1930s. From an original photo by Donald Mennie (1899-1941) in a 1939 book.