On July 30, 2021, news from China Three Gorges Group Co., Ltd. stated that the Gezhouba Hydropower Project, known as the "first dam on the Yangtze River in thousands of miles," has ushered in an important node for the 40th anniversary of its commissioning of power generation. The Gezhouba Hydropower Station has produced nearly 6,000 clean energy. Billion kilowatt hours.

Located on the Yangtze River reach in Yichang City, Hubei Province, the Gezhouba Water Conservancy Project is the largest water conservancy project in the 20th century that China independently surveyed, designed, constructed, manufactured, installed, and operated. , Hydropower plant, navigable buildings, etc. This hub project started in December 1970 and was completed as a whole in December 1988, with all units connected to the grid for power generation, with a total investment of 4.848 billion yuan.

The Gezhouba Hydropower Station is the first large-scale hydropower station on the Yangtze River and the largest low-head, large-flow, run-off hydropower station in the world. It has 22 installed power stations and a total installed capacity of 2.735 million kilowatts. Since the first unit of the Gezhouba Power Station was put into operation on July 30, 1981, the Gezhouba Power Station has produced nearly 600 billion kWh of clean energy by July 30, 2021.

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The 40-year history of the Gezhouba Water Conservancy Project is a history of struggle to climb new heights. In the future, companies will continue to focus on the national energy strategy and energy supply-side structural reform requirements, and focus on the dual-carbon goal to improve the supply capacity of clean energy and high-quality ecological products. Editor/Sang Xiaomei