The Three Gorges Dam Project
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of Chinese nation, first proposed to constructed Yangtze Three Gorges Project by the year of 1918. But the project remained only a dream because of historic reasons.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the project was back on the agenda. On April 3, 1992, the National People's Congress approved the construction of the project.

The Yangtze Three Gorges Project has its main benefits in flood control, power generation and navigation.
1) Historically, the people who lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River suffered tremendous losses from flooding. For example, In 1931, 333 thousand hectares of cultivated land were stricken and 145 thousand people were drowned  because of floods. When the project is completed, it can raise flood control capacity from the present 10-year frequency to 100-year frequency.
2) With its total installed capacity of 18,200 MW, the Yangtze Three Gorges Hydropower Station will generate 84.7 billion KWH a year, one-ninth of the national total generated power.
3) The project will enable 10,000-ton towboats to sail up-stream as far as Chongqing. The navigation capacity of Yangtze river will be increased from 10 million to 50 million tons a year with the cost lowered by 35%-37%.

By the year 2009 when the project is completed, the total investment for the project will amount to US $28 billion and about 1 million people will be relocated owing to the construction of the project.

                                                              "Ghost City"
"Ghost City" is located on Mt. Minshan of Fengdu town which is 170 km from the east of Chongqing, it has over 1,900 years history. But why it has been regarded as the "Ghost City"?

It got its name during Han Dynasty ( the first century AD). There were 2 officials got bored with the political life and came to Mt. Minshan to study on Taoism which is the Chinese local religion, and both of them later became immortals . This story widely spread and Mt. Minshan became very famous. When combined those two saints' surnames together, Yin and Wang, sound very much like "King of Hell" in Chinese. From then on, people began to call Fengdu the "Ghost City".

With temples constructed on the Ming Hill by the river bank and many statues of ghosts and devils molded in the temples, these terrifying statues describe the after-life where people who disobey ancient Chinese morals are punished in every horrifying way. By the standard of Hollywood movies, it should be rated the highest level.

To Chinese, the social structure in the hell is exactly like that in this world. In hell, a sprit would go through a whole and complete bureaucracy to get the final sentence. The pure spirits would be rewarded and the sinful ones would be severely tortures. Different tortures would be given to different sins. The Temple built on Mt. Minshan display instruments of torture and wide demon images, which vividly depict the Chinese people's imagination of Hell.

From the ship pier, you can climb the winding cobblestone road or take a cable car to reach the 288 meter-high hill. Some ships arrange an early night visit to the ghost city just to catch the terrifying effects.