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(english.cnhubei.com) Statistics show that 600, 000 tourists visited Three Gorges Dam in the first half of 2006, a year-on-year increase of 40 per cent.

It is estimated that tourist arrivals will again exceed 1 million this year which leads the industrial tourism in China.

7,308 tourists visited the dam on July 16, 2006 record high for a single day.

Started in 1993, the Three Gorges Project is designed with a concrete gravity dam with a crest elevation of 185 meters and maximum height of 175 meters. The construction of Three Gorges Dam was completed on May 20, 2006.