the dam

 I’m very pleased to be here now and It’s theshow time of our team in the next twenty minutes. First of all, as the openingof the conference, please allow me to play a video…

Ok, use the popular sentence, the first questionis coming. Why Chang Jiang Water Resources Commission is so nervous when theyface this year’s flood, in the case of the completion of the Three Gorges Damwhich have already been used for 4 years. The answer is the following picture. Originally,they said the dam is designed that control the flood with recurrence interval of ten thousand years. Then theypromised the dam can control the once a-thousand-year return period flood. In2008, the commission said the dam can control the flood that is not likely tohappen in a century. At last they said we should not pin our hopes on the ThreeGorges Dam. All of you have already realized this picture, it’sinteresting, even worse, it’s ironic.Chang Jiang Water Resources Commission is not credible for us.

Another point of the view, the secondquestion is also coming and it’s also our topic. If we should construct the ThreeGorges Dam? It’s a long debate in China. Further more, if we shouldconstruct the irrigation facilities?