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The dam was planned in the 1950s, but preliminary construction (roads, bridges, river diversion) did not begin until 1940s. Formal construction began on the project July 1, 2001, and the river was diverted by
November 2003. A total of 20,000,000 m (706,293,334 cu ft) of material were
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Xuejiang, a manager with one of the technical departments for the contracting joint venture, explains the working process at the site: "This jobsite operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week – in common with most working job sites in
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Longtan Power Station, the largest of the 10 hydraulic power works to be built on Hongshui River in the upper reach of Pearl River, will generate 18.7 billion kwh annually when construction works complete in December
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excavated from the dam site. Impounding of the 27,270,000,000 m (22,108,149 acre⋅ft) reservoir began in 2006, and the dam's first of three operational
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A scheme of two-stage counterweight-type vertical ship lift with an open channel in the middle was adopted as the navigation structure for
Longtan project.
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Chinese government is gambling that expenditure of public funds on huge projects such as the Longtan Dam will lead to sustainable economic development.
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The project's planned installed capacity will total 5.4 million kw and the project will be able to generate 15.67 billion kwh of electricity a year.
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Hydroelectric Power Plants in
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Fuzzy-Like Multiple Objective Multistage Decision Making
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27,134 m/s (958,228 cu ft/s) (max flood)
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822:"Hongshui River in S.China to be dammed in November"
738:"Progress at the Longton Dam and Hydropower Project"
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420:. The dam contains seven surface spillways, two
257:20,530,000,000 m (16,643,942 acre⋅ft)
249:27,270,000,000 m (22,108,149 acre⋅ft)
742:International Journal on Hydropower & Dams
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641:"Guangxi Builds Huge Hydraulic Power Station"
212:7,670,000 m (10,031,981 cu yd)
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163:Longtan Hydropower Development Co., Ltd.
1015:Energy infrastructure completed in 2009
980:Hydroelectric power stations in Guangxi
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549:List of dams and reservoirs in China
975:Buildings and structures in Guangxi
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903:Jiuping Xu; Ziqiang Zeng (2014).
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794:Zhongnam Engineering Corporation
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394:Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
47:Location of Longtan Dam in China
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544:List of power stations in China
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298:179 m (587 ft) (max.)
1000:Roller-compacted concrete dams
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16:Dam in Tian'e County, Guangxi
1010:2009 establishments in China
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942:"Harnessing the Hongshuihe"
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1005:Underground power stations
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744:. 2004. pp. 84–85
333:Annual generation
225:Spillway capacity
149:Construction cost
109:25.02722°N 107.04750°E
400:, a tributary of the
272:Normal elevation
174:Type of dam
645:China through a lens
285:Commission date
254:Active capacity
911:Springer Publishing
360:traditional Chinese
263:Catchment area
246:Total capacity
220:Service, controlled
114:25.02722; 107.04750
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602:"Building Longtan"
412:power production,
352:simplified Chinese
217:Spillway type
909:. Vol. 533.
476:"golden waterway"
472:Longtan ship lift
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573:China Daily
486:provinces.
406:Pearl River
382:gravity dam
348:Longtan Dam
155:4.2 billion
112: /
100:107°02′51″E
88:Coordinates
22:Longtan Dam
969:Categories
926:2020-01-07
886:2008-02-10
832:2016-09-20
804:2016-09-19
748:2016-09-19
720:2016-09-19
688:2016-09-19
655:2008-02-10
622:2008-02-10
583:2008-02-10
555:References
466:Navigation
418:navigation
341:(estimate)
97:25°01′38″N
856:7 January
847:"Longtan"
288:2007-2009
233:Reservoir
950:Archived
880:Archived
771:Archived
649:Archived
577:Archived
490:See also
404:and the
402:Xi River
308:9 × 714
304:Turbines
183:Impounds
160:Owner(s)
74:Location
628:China."
484:Guangxi
480:Guizhou
428:. The
424:and an
392:of the
384:on the
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178:Gravity
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398:China
68:China
915:ISBN
858:2011
482:and
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364:龍灘大壩
356:龙滩大坝
153:US$
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