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Taipingxi
Taipingxi Town (, "Taiping Stream Town") is a town in Yiling District of Yichang Prefecture-level city of China's Hubei Province. It is located on the left (northern) side of the Yangtze River, near the northern end of the Three Gorges Dam. As an administrative unit, Taipingxi occupies 152 square km (mostly, rural area), and has the population of 27,000 people.三峡工程坝头库首第一镇——宜昌市夷陵区太平溪镇 (The first town at the Three Gorges Dam and at the head of the Three Gorges Reservoir: Taiping Town, Yiling District, Yichang City) Taipingxi town center is situated on the , less than a kilometer no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Township-level Divisions Of Hubei
This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Hubei, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divisions of the PRC. As of late 2016, there were over 1,000 such divisions in Hubei, including 307 subdistricts, 759 towns, and 168 townships. After changes, as of late 2017, there were 308 subdistricts, 761 towns, and 165 townships . This list is divided first into the prefecture-level then the county-level divisions. Wuhan Caidian District Subdistricts: *Caidian Subdistrict (), Zhashan Subdistrict (), Yong'an Subdistrict (), Zhuru Subdistrict (), Daji Subdistrict (), Zhangwan Subdistrict (), Zhuankou Avenue Subdistrict (), Junshan Subdistrict () Towns: * Suohe (), Yuxian () The only township is Xiaosi Township () Dongxihu District Subdistricts: *Wujiashan Subdistrict (), Baiquan/Boquan Subdistrict (), Jiangjun Road Subdistrict ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiling District
Yiling District () is a district of the prefecture-level city of Yichang, Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Created on July 30, 2001, the district includes most of the former Yichang County, with the exception of Yichang center city (which forms Xiling District) and certain southern and western suburbs. The land area of Yiling District is 3424 square km, population 510,000 (as of 2004). (Official site) The district's seat of government is on the northern outskirts of Yichang urban area. Both Gezhouba Dam and the Three Gorges Dam are located within the district. The Xiling Bridge spans the Changjiang (Yangtze River) in the western part of Yiling District, connecting the towns of Letianxi and Sandouping on the northern and southern sides of the river. To add to the confusion, Yiling Bridge is ''not'' within Yiling District - rather, it connects the center-city Xiling District with Dianjun District south of the river. Administrative divisions The district is divided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. The Three Gorges Dam has been the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW) since 2012. The dam generates an average 95±20 TWh of electricity per year, depending on annual amount of precipitation in the river basin. After the extensive monsoon rainfalls of 2020, the dam's annual production nearly reached 112 TWh, breaking the previous world record of ~103 TWh set by Itaipu Dam in 2016. The dam body was completed in 2006. The power plant of the dam project was completed and fully functional as of July 4, 2012, when the last of the main water turbines in the underground plant began production. Each main water turbine has a capacity of 700 MW. Coupling the dam's 32 main turbines with two smaller generators (50 MW each) to power the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiling Bridge
The Xiling Yangtze River Bridge (), is a suspension bridge over the Yangtze River, just a few kilometers downstream from the Three Gorges Dam. The bridge is located within Yiling District of the prefecture-level city of Yichang (Hubei Province of China), connecting the towns of Taipingxi and Letianxi (on the left, northern bank of the river) with Sandouping (on the right, southern bank). The bridge is located some 50 km upstream (west) from Yichang main urban area (i.e., Xiling District). The construction started in December 1993 and was completed in 1996. The bridge opened in August 1996. (Xiling Changjiang Bridge) ) and had the longest bridge span across the Yangtze, of 900 meters. The total length of the bridge was reported as 1118.66 meters. The bridge surface is 18 m wide, carrying two lanes of traffic in each direction. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
