Three Gorges Dam Impact, the Lost Identity

In Zhongxian County, half of the city has been submerged owing to the rising of the water level. There are many cities like this up the Yangtze from the Three Gorges Dam.

Use one dam to correct the passive impact from the Three Gorges dam. Millions of immigrants did not have to migrate at the beginning for the “Dam Good” plan is to prevent the 14 cities from being submerged and the new dams are more integrated with their urban life and production.

Also it contains a metaphor as feedback to the "Three Gorges Dam": Ironically, the construction of the "Three Gorges Dam" was meant to radically change their living environment, but the dam's water-retaining function enabled another dam to prevent such changes so that their homes and homelands could be preserved while creating a commemorative space in an urban size for them.

Through the ideal of dam protection, life, and production function, I hope to deal with the social impact and people’s attitude of the "Three Gorges Dam" construction and hope that the survived society can coexist with the dams.

The dams would become a landmark and cultural symbol up the Yangtze River, recording this period of history.