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Qingshuihe River
The Qingshui River is a tributary of the Wu River (Yangtze River tributary), Wu River in Guizhou Province, China. It is interrupted by the Dahuashui Dam. See also * Qingshui (other), Other Qingshuis in China and on Taiwan References Rivers of Guizhou {{China-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu River (Yangtze River Tributary)
The Wu River () is the largest southern tributary of the Yangtze River. Nearly its entire length of runs within the isolated, mountainous and ethnically diverse province of Guizhou. The river takes drainage from a watershed. The river flows through the Liupanshui, Anshun, Guiyang (the capital), Qiannan, and Zunyi Districts of Guizhou. All nine regions of the province have at least partial drainage to the river. Course The river begins as the ''Sancha'' in western Guizhou and flows eastwards about . It then bends north, west and south in a reach called the Yachi, and receives the Nanming River from the right. After the Yachi reach, the Wu makes a broad arc northeast through central Guizhou, picking up fifteen major tributaries including the Yu, Furong and Ya Rivers and flowing through several large hydroelectric dams. It then crosses the border into the provincial-level municipality of Chongqing, flows past Wushan, Badong and Zigui, and empties into the Yangtze River at Ful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clearwater (other)
Clearwater or Clear Water may refer to: Places Canada * Clear Water Academy, a private Catholic school located in Calgary, Alberta * Clearwater (provincial electoral district), a former provincial electoral district in Alberta * Clearwater, British Columbia * Clearwater, Manitoba * Clearwater County, Alberta * Clearwater Lakes, a double impact crater in Quebec Hong Kong * Clear Water Bay United States * Clearwater, Florida * Clearwater, Kansas * Clearwater, Minnesota * Clearwater, Missouri * Clearwater, Nebraska * Clearwater, Oregon * Clearwater, South Carolina * Clearwater, Washington * Clearwater County, Idaho * Clearwater County, Minnesota * Clearwater Township, Michigan * Clearwater Township, Minnesota * Clearwater Township, Nebraska * Clearwater Mountains, in the panhandle of Idaho Other * Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club, a country club in Hong Kong * Clearwater Features, a production company which did ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends'' in its very early years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guizhou Province
Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to the south, Yunnan to the west, Sichuan to the northwest, the municipality of Chongqing to the north, and Hunan to the east. The population of Guizhou stands at 38.5 million, ranking 18th among the provinces in China. The Dian Kingdom, which inhabited the present-day area of Guizhou, was annexed by the Han dynasty in 106 BC. Guizhou was formally made a province in 1413 during the Ming dynasty. After the overthrow of the Qing in 1911 and following the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Communist Party took refuge in Guizhou during the Long March between 1934 and 1935. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong promoted the relocation of heavy industry into inland provinces such as Guizhou, to better protect them from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahuashui Dam
The Dahuashui Dam is an arch dam on the Qingshuihe River near Pingzhai in Kaiyang County of Guizhou Province, China. The purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power production and flood control. The dam creates a reservoir of which supplies water to a power station containing two 200 MW generators. Construction on the dam began in December 2003 and was expected to be complete in May 2007 but a lack of funding delayed project completion until initial operation on January 20, 2008. The dam was constructed with roller-compacted concrete. See also * List of power stations in China The following page lists some power stations in mainland China divided by energy source and location. Coal Nuclear Hydroelectric Solar Tide Wind By location The following pages list the major power stations ... References {{Reflist Hydroelectric power stations in Guizhou Dams in China Arch dams Dams completed in 2008 Roller-compacted concrete dams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qingshui (other)
__NOTOC__ Qingshui may refer to: Rivers * Qingshui River (Guizhou), China, a tributary of the Wu River * Qingshui River (Qingshai), China * Qingshui River (Zhangjiakou), a river in Zhangjiakou, China * Qingshui (Shanxi), China, draining Mount Wutai * Qingshui River (Taiwan), Taiwan, a tributary of the Lanyang River Regions * Qingshui District, district in Taichung City, Taiwan * Qingshui County, county in Tianshui Prefecture, Gansu, China Settlements * Qingshui, Beijing, Mentougou District, China * Qingshui, Jiuquan, Gansu, China * Qingshui, Renshou County, Sichuan, China * Qingshui, Dachu County, Sichuan, China * Qingshui, Guan County, Shandong, China * Qingshui, Dawa County, Liaoning, China People * Qingshui (monk), Chan Buddhist monk during the Song dynasty Other *Qingshui Cliff, in Hualien County, Taiwan See also *Clearwater (other) *Clear River (other) *Shimizu (other), the pronunciation of the same characters in Japanese Japanese may re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
