First i want to ask Wright ( not insulting) but is their national anthem (Canada) still god save the queen , secondly i read somewhere that in south korea there is so many university graduates and people going to university that they are making it so hard to get into University as nobody is doing the other jobs like cleaning etc , also China needs to change the stereotype to the world about their products and labour , when someone thinks of china they dont think of J-20 as not many people know about that (Not insulting)
Forget China's spacewalk, J-20, and AESA destroyer. How about Three Gorges Dam, world's fastest supercomputer, world's fastest train, and monthly satellite launches?
Let's say you're right and most people have never heard of China's spacewalk, J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter, and Type 052C AESA-equipped destroyer.
Do you think people have heard about China's marvelous engineering at the Three Gorges Dam (which generates 21 times the electricity of Hoover Dam), China's world's-fastest supercomputer last year, world's-fastest bullet train at 380km/hour, and a rocket launch every month (see citations below)?
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Three Gorges Dam generates the electricity of 21 Hoover Dams
The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River is an American icon. It generates a massive 4 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year. Astonishingly, China's Three Gorges Dam produces the electricity of 21 Hoover Dams at 84.7 billion kilowatt-hours.
China's Three Gorges Dam is "the world's largest electricity-generating plant of any kind."
"One of the nation's best-known engineering marvels, the Hoover Dam"
China fills Three Gorges Dam to capacity - CNN
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China fills Three Gorges Dam to capacity
October 26, 2010|By the CNN Wire Staff
China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water project, was fully filled Tuesday, state media said.
The water level hit the dam's design capacity of 175 meters (574 feet) at 9 a.m. Tuesday, said the corporation that developed the dam.
The 175-meter milestone will "enable the project to fulfill its functions of flood control, power generation, navigation and water diversion to the full," said Cao Guangjing, chairman of the China Three Gorges Corporation.
When the dam in central China reaches full generating capacity next year, it will produce 84.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, the Xinhua news agency said. That's enough to meet Beijing's needs for a year.
By comparison, the United States' Hoover Dam produces about 4 billion kilowatt-hours each year, enough to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, Arizona, and California.
The 2,309-meter-wide (1.4 mile-wide) Three Gorges project, built in the upper-middle reaches of China's longest river, began storing water in 2003. Water is diverted to the parched farmlands and cities of China's north.
The Yangtze River has been responsible for some of the worst floods on record, with hundreds of thousands of people killed over the past century alone. The Three Gorges Dam relieves 15 million people and 1.5 million hectares of farmland in the Jianghan Plain from the threat of flood, the developer says.
Critics say the dam worsens pollution by trapping sewage and industrial waste. They also warn that an accident or natural disaster could create a catastrophe in the densely populated region. Smaller dams could have met China's needs, critics say.
An estimated 1.2 million people had to move to make way for the Three Gorges, which inundated 632 square kilometers (244 square miles) of land. Historians decried the loss of centuries of relics and antiquities, and the loss of a way of life for myriad rural residents in hundreds of villages, towns and cities."
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Build world's-fastest supercomputer. (Unmatched computer technology)
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Build world's-fastest bullet trains that travel an average of 380 kph. (Amazing mechanical engineering)
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Launch a record 15 rocket/satellite launches in 2010 without a single failure. (Test of rocket reliability technology)
