When the Three Gorges Dam was built, nine experts refused to sign the consent form, do they regret it now?
An old man who used to live near the Yixia Dam for decades once said such a news.
After these more than a dozen experts sat down and discussed, one expert expressed his objections very clearly, and that expert was Huang Wanli.
He was the first to stand up, and his attitude was very resolute: I absolutely do not agree with the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, I think this construction will cause great harm to our country, and it will definitely be blown up in the future.
After hearing this, everyone present was particularly surprised why he was so sure that the Three Gorges Dam would be blown up, because he was an expert, so everyone also wanted to know his opinion.
It turned out that the number of people attending the meeting at that time was too large, and there was a lot of mixing, and Mr. Huang Wanli was very worried that our design drawings and our plans would all be leaked.
If those people have mastered our data and content, it is very likely that our Three Gorges will fall under their control.
If they want to destroy us from this, then we simply cannot resist it.
Who is he?
Huang Wanli is actually a famous patriot in modern China, the son of Huang Yanpei.
Huang Yanpei was not only an important initiator of the League, who made outstanding contributions to the Anti-Japanese War, but also devoted his life to China's vocational education.
His son Huang Wanli was influenced by his father from an early age, so he aspired to become a water conservancy engineer who could also contribute to the country.
To this end, Huang Wanli went abroad to study at a very young age and went abroad to learn advanced science and technology and water conservancy engineering knowledge.
After completing his studies, he returned to China and served as the head of the water conservancy bureau in Nanjing and Gansu, devoting himself to the water conservancy industry in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam was put on the agenda, but this proposal was strongly opposed by him.
So why is Huang Wanli, an expert, opposed?
We analyze whether the reasons given by Huang Wanli are reasonable.
First of all, let us first talk about what benefits the Three Gorges Dam will bring to the people, and whether these benefits can ease the mainland's national conditions and benefit the people.
Advantages of this project:
First, the total annual electricity consumption of the mainland is huge, and when the Three Gorges Dam was not built, some areas would use a large amount of electricity every Spring Festival or important festivals, sometimes resulting in insufficient electricity supply.
There are also some remote places where electricity is not available, which is very inconvenient for the local people, and after the establishment of the Three Gorges Dam, the power station will generate 500 kilowatt-hours more than before, which is double the amount of electricity.
Due to the increase in power generation, a small amount of coal can be used to generate electricity, save mainland coal energy, let the mainland be too cold, and alleviate the shortage of coal energy.
Second, because some parts of the mainland are adjacent to the Yangtze River region, they are plagued by floods all year round. After the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, it has a rare amount of water storage in the world, which can not only reduce the peak of floods, but also reduce the number of floods.
This great advantage solves the problem of flooding in the forest environment. It has also solved the problem of water draft for the people on the mainland, and there will no longer be a situation where there is no water available in some areas.
Third, due to the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, the transportation problem in some areas can also be improved, and the transportation problem can be solved, and the peasants' agricultural materials can be sent to the areas in need, driving the development of the local economy.
Fourth, it can also improve the environmental problems around the Yangtze River and make a new change in the environment.
The disadvantages are that one is costly, the other is to destroy geology and so on.
Moreover, Huang Wanli, an expert, believes that the shortcomings and hidden dangers of building the Three Gorges Dam are also obvious.
In fact, for Mr. Huang Wanli's objections, the builders have already thought of a solution.
Regarding the long and expensive construction time, the Three Gorges Dam is not fully completed before it can be put into use, but a large part of it can already be put into use.
Part of the Three Gorges Dam was launched since 2003 until its official completion in 2009, and the achievements of the Three Gorges Dam in the past few years have made up for many of these years' costs.
The Three Gorges Dam has a total length of about 2,309 meters and a height of 185 meters, with a total investment of about 95.46 billion yuan
The peak elevation of the dam is 185 meters, the maximum dam height is 181 meters, the normal water storage level of the Three Gorges Dam is 175 meters, the total reservoir capacity is 39.3 billion cubic meters, of which the flood control reservoir capacity is 22.15 billion cubic meters.
Regarding the problem of damaging geology and excessive sediment accumulation, the mainland has launched a special sand carrier, and the actual sediment accumulation is much smaller than the predicted value, and the impact is not very large.
On the issue of danger, our country is now a world-class country, its national strength is far beyond what it used to be, and the attack on the Three Gorges Dam is even more nonsense.
Since the Three Gorges Dam was officially put into use in 2023, the power generation capacity of generators is about 1,399.2 billion kWh, and the profit of simple power generation is hundreds of billions of yuan, which has relieved the pressure of electricity consumption in many cities, and also reduced countless coal consumption in disguise, contributing greatly to the protection of the environment.
The Three Gorges Dam has been flooded 22 times so far, and the flood damage is not small, and the flood in the Yangtze River in 98 not only brought hundreds of billions of value losses, but also ruthlessly took the lives of more than 1,000 people.
Since the Three Gorges Dam, no matter how large the flood can be survived at most a small part of the area, the Three Gorges Dam is even more priceless in this regard.
Whether it is a flood or a drought, the Three Gorges can be well dispatched, so that the loss is infinitely close to zero.
Every human life is priceless, and everyone protected by the Three Gorges Project symbolizes the correctness of the Three Gorges Project.
Before the Three Gorges Dam was built, the mouth of the Three Gorges was known as the mouth of death, and the daily flow was the same rapid, and there were countless reefs under its violent currents.
The danger of sailing here is like walking a tightrope, leaving no mistakes, and only extremely skilled boatmen dare to try to get from this boat.
At present, the annual cargo volume can be equivalent to the volume of the previous decade, and the free trade and transportation of goods in both dry and flood times has brought great contributions to economic development
But now it seems that the quality of the Three Gorges Dam is still very reliable, and 16 years have passed since its completion, and the Three Gorges Dam has only undergone imperceptible deformation, which has no impact on the use of the dam.
Ten thousand steps back, even if the Three Gorges Dam has a service life of only 50 years. 50 years later, it's a big deal to reinforce and rebuild.
The benefits brought to the mainland in the past 50 years far exceed the inputs, so the construction of the Three Gorges Dam has more advantages than disadvantages in any respect.
The Three Gorges Dam has only existed for a dozen years and can bring such a great contribution to China, so how long can it still exist?
Of course, some people said that Mr. Huang Wanli did not conduct on-site investigations, so he did not have enough investigation of the Three Gorges Project and did not know enough about the actual situation.
Therefore, even the most professional scientists are unlikely to achieve 100% success, and from the current point of view, it has brought huge benefits, made many contributions, and can ultimately be judged to have more benefits than harms.
So, do they regret it today?
Write to the end
The construction of the Three Gorges Dam was not an easy task, and before the founding of New China, there was a flood disaster on the mainland.
In that disaster, there were many casualties, and everyone realized that it was time to build the Three Gorges Dam, and if it was successfully built, it would effectively prevent floods.
Although the cost of construction is relatively high, this matter will bring a lot of benefits to the mainland.
From everyone's point of view, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam is a harmless thing, but one person put forward a different point of view, and his view also caused everyone to reflect.
Today, the Three Gorges Dam has become a world-class project that China is proud of, not only solving energy and flood control problems, but also injecting new impetus into China's scientific and technological strength and engineering construction.
This also tells us that as long as there is strong technology and talent, nothing can stump Chinese people.