Geological disaster control project has stood up the water-retaining, down pouring and floods over the year after water-storage in the Three Gorges Project, according to report by People's Daily report from Yichang, central China's Hubei Province on July 4.

China input from 2001 a total of four billion yuan in preventing and controlling possible geological disasters in the Three Gorges reservoir. Hubei province and Chongqing municipality have been paying great attention to the most concentrated and greatest control project ever since the establishment of new China. Before the water-retaining in June 2003, the renovation for 159 collapse landslide bodies under the 135-meter water level and 24 preventive and protective projects against bank collapse has been completed. At the end of June 2004, the second-phase prevention and control projects against geological disasters have been finished to welcome the national appraisal.

By People's Daily Online