Les touristes débarquant d'un navire de croisières formulaire Victoria à Fengdu, autrement connu sous le nom de "Ghost City', un site culturel dans le Yangtze River Three Gorges. Un
5401 x 3600 px | 45,7 x 30,5 cm | 18 x 12 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
12 juillet 2009
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Tourists disembarking form a Victoria Cruises ship at Fengdu, otherwise known as "Ghost City", a cultural site in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges. An area of great beauty, for centuries the tumultuous Three Gorges awed its viewers, and inspired some of China's greatest poets and artists. These days the gorges are home to the world's largest electricity-generating plant. Spanning the lower length of the Xiling Gorge, the dam was built to serve three purposes: electricity, increase the river's navigation capacity and reduce the potential for floods, which have claimed 350, 000 lives in the last 200 years alone. But it has also flooded a reported 8, 000 archaeological and cultural sites, displacing 1.25 million people (official figures - lobby groups place figures up to 50% more than this), and causing significant ecological changes, including an increased risk of landslides, sediment buildup and erosion. Riddled with corruption, a week after the dam started filling, in 2002, cracks appeared on the dam wall. The Chinese government is hoping that the controversy – and sheer size of the project – will now become a tourist attraction. Work has begun on tourist development overlooking the dam at Sandouping with a series of high-end resorts and more than 3, 000 guest rooms. These mud flats used to be home to a city and several temples and pagodas worshipping Fengdu. They were removed, piecemeal, before the dam was flooded.
