Put a lot of effort into trying to give some context to the dam was a lot of fun. There is so much that I was not able to touch on though. And there are many issues that make the dam a controversial structure. The fact is that it is there now, it does protect downstream from a large percentage of flooding... but it has not been a bandaid solution for all the problems mother nature throws its way... and that has been tragic.
Great work, Matt. In fact, in our Chinese people's view, it is just another flooding year, just a bit heavier than ever before. The condition of the dam is not a worrying topic at all. I personally was a bit surprised that how the western world could make a scene of this topic. lol. In fact when the dam was no there, the loss of flooding was way much bigger than now.
Matt, the water is not 175 meters deep. That number is the designed highest water surface height above SEA LEVEL. Note that the downstream water level is 66 meters on average above sea level.
I wonder what the weight of that concrete mass is. Its weight alone without foundations could stop a hell lot of water. It looks like it'll definitely be standing even if water starts flowing over it.
Good to see the dam is safe and sound. Everything you show or demonstrate you show it with passion, objectivity and positive energy! Really enjoy each and every great video of yours. Keep up the good work, Matt!
Super interesting to finally see the dam I heard so much about when we were in Chongqing. It’s crazy how it all works together hey. Lol at Oli‘a nose comment 😂😂
Many people don’t know that the Three Gorges Dam can manage such a large-scale water area. I think I need to change to a large-screen TV or go to the Three Gorges Dam in person to appreciate its hugeness.
From the damage the floods are causing, no it can't. During the design stage they could either focus on power generation or flood control. The party chose power generation so the flood control was minimal.
victor luke actually it is made clear that significantly fewer people die now from flooding since the dam was put in place. Someone has posted the statistics relating to this.
The closest to that sensation I've ever experienced are my many visits to Niagara. Water has incredible power and is always mesmerizing when seen from a safe distance!
Amazing !!!! Thank you guys for showing us on this well known dam. I want to travel to China when I graduate. I am learning Mandarin too so hope it will be useful.
Thanks Matt. Terrific piece. Hope this might give Americans a prospective of China that news media and government wouldn't. People are people everywhere despite label makers try to make stick. For love of WORLD PEACE. Love you brother !!
the so called MSMs are intentionlly mis-report about the dam. Can't they afford to the in situ check when they reported it? Doesn't matter if the idiots still believe what they love to believe. Just let it be.
But will it give Taiwan , Hong Kong, Falung gong, Chinese Christians , the uyghurs, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan , India, Vietnam, many in Australia and Phillipines, coerced organ "donors", disappeared dissidents, and seemingly endless numbers of those aggrieved, exploited, abused a "new perspective?" You're a CCP enabler but that soon won't matter.
China and Chinese haters will say the sever flooding is caused by the 3GD for obvious reasons. The reality is beside the 3GD, there are 3 more big dams at the upper reaches of the Yangtse, all computer coordinated and working together to control the peak flows of the mighty Yangtse. Even that they can only mitigate the damages due to once in a life-time rainfall and flooding
Just google "china floods 1931", hundreds of thousands of people used to die in the flods. There were other big floods after that. Situation is much better now and these dams helped.
We took a cruise trip on Princess Victoria up stream Yangtze River to se the dam back in 2002 before the project was completed, before most of the villages & towns were flooded over. This block brings back very fond memories. Understand certain sacrifice has to made for a bigger picture & improvement of a country. Mind you, these villages were all relocated to new housings and/or compensated. It is sad to have to leave ones root, however, people do need to move on for a better future. We thank these people for their sacrifice.
To state that these villages were happily relocated\compensated is just untrue. Some may have been re-compensated but corruption by local government meant lots got nothing once forcibly evicted.
@@declanokeeffe84 I am sure mishandling & corruption took place in those days. However, we also wittnessed the poor condition some of the old villages were in, mostly wooden huts without water supply. Drinking water have to be carried from wells or pipes from one end of the village If not miles away, cooking by firewood. This project as we can see eventually brought improvement to the area. It is a great pity some of the historic ancient cities were lost & people have to be moved out. It would be good if we can find some of these relocated people & find out how they feel about their changes today as in first person. The world do have to move on. This happened in history all over the world. Big numbers of people were moved & evicted for the great railways in the late 1800s & mid 1900s in the US. I doubt if they were all fairly compensated.
Thank you for showing the dam is still standing. The haters will say the video is fake and wish something bad happen to it. Nobody say China is perfect but within the last 30-40 years to lift millions of people out of poverty. It is a great accomplishment.
I'm glad you guys went there to show what's really happening. Media in the US and many youtube news were saying this dam was about to burst or curvy, So fed up with lies.
After construction flaws were uncovered the dam was reinforced - naturally one can be concerned just how safe the dam really is. We will see if the dam stands the test of time despite low cred.
When I lived in China 24 years ago, every year the south would suffer from floods due heavy rainfall, cause thousands of death, the worst one I remember is in 1998, like 3 or 4 thousands deaths. But since recent years rain keeps falling and floods keeps coming, but human death getting much less to 1 or 2 hundreds like this year so far, heavy rainfall is comparable with 1998 , but death rate is less than 1 /10th. In this way I think Dam plays such crucial role to save human life, all bias on damage to ecological or social environment are in my eyes less considerable. There re never perfect plans in such big project. However if you re biased, you tend to focus on negative side but which is less crucial, like all medicines, have side effect but cure your desease.
i miss being impressed by china, I wish I can go back there after the pandemic. Look at you all, bunch of guys enjoying getting their mind blown, awesome feeling. Makes you really wonder how they made it from the first place. Simply Happiness. Jiayou
Despite all the dispute of this dam, the dam did provide the great need for infrastructure construction in China ever since then. Concrete factories and steel industry were flourishing like never before. Later on, the great construction of railroads were also underway. Maybe the dam is not perfect in a lot of sense, but the ultimate goal of this dam as well as many other mega projects in China were to boost the Chinese economy through these investment. That is what makes it worthwhile
@London Lad I'm Chinese, and I have to admit that some people in some areas of China have the habit of eating dogs. But after all, only a small number of people do this, and I believe that fewer and fewer people will eat dogs.
@London Lad In fact South Korean people like to eat dogs more. When something bad that was found in mainland China. The Westen media will slander Chinese people. But if it was found in some other countries. It will just be some kind of culture. I love dogs, and I have raised two dogs as my family. I don't agree with eating dogs, At least 90% Chinese people don't eat dogs. Please don't make a "Few incidents" become national.
@London Lad you are the one who had been brainwashed，I‘v never seen people eat dogs. theres 14hundred million people in China, is there 14hundred million dogs for every one? cant believe you believe that shit.SHAME ON YOU
Your video reminds me of my trip there. It was few years ago and it was deserted too with only one other small tour group. We followed a tour to Zangjiajie, did the Yangtze cruise and had a guided tour of this dam. It was amazing!
yeah in 1931, great floods killed 3.7 million people. this year? only 200. so it shows that how important flood control is and how important these dams are.
10:29 Hi, Matt, I have some add-ons for your claim. 3 Gorges Dam project has the historical lowest (relatively speaking) support vote in the National People's Congress to get an approval, there was a huge debate on environmental and national security etc. for days before the controversial approval (1767:177:664). And the controversy is still going on and never loosening its focus. It is more than the finger-snap Chinese-authority stereotype made the decision than you think. It is not universally approved and it did not start/decided with the 'leader' 朱镕基主席 by the time, the whole profound vision started by the time of Sun Zhongshan 孙中山 (Sun Yat-sen) the father of our nation. Update: sorry matt I didn't finish that session when you talk about it, actually you have the data of the vote of from the congress. I apologise. Good music choice with delicate content, thanks for your effort.
gnews.org/256064/ and why just look at the dam in isolation of what the dam has done to both the upstream and downstream.. save the prestigious dam by ruining villages downstream is not something one can ignore
Hi this is why your people are too primitive and brainwashed to be compatible with a voting system. Two thirds requirement is needed to amend the U.S. Constitution. Two thirds of the group agreeing on something is seen as overwhelming support. If you see two-thirds approval on something as dissent, voting is pointless, fictitious. 49% is what is needed for a proposal to fail. If near 100% agreement is common and 67% is contentious, 49% (actually saying 'no') seems unheard of. 67% IS the "finger-snap Chinese-authority stereotype".
@@Toshinben but your non-primitive non-brainwashed voting system is referring to US’s? allow me, no offence but a country which has an electoral voting system lets a marvellous president like Trump elected who allows his own country having 5,500,000+, one-fourth of the global infected cases and 172,000+, one-fifth global death from COVID-19 up to date? Hmm, sounds isn't very super persuasive to me. Maybe your non-primitive non-brainwashed voting system isn’t considering any for those minority 172,000+ bc DEAD people’s vote is pointless and fictitious to your voting system I assume. Here is a primitive Chinese philosophy you may need to understand how people seeing you people which cannot be translated correctly by Google: 站着说话不腰疼 Oh wait, your math is trash too, 177 / (1767+177+664+25) ≠ 49% Oh wait again, three Gorges Dam isn’t collapsed, or even not close to having any dmg after these many years natural disasters yet.
@UCpegCdvP3sp3Y6NTn4ABhvw Ohhhh! Lol. I was just responding to your "Oh wait, you need to improve your math, this one needs to be corrected: 177 / (1767+177+664+25)=49% " thing, but it seems you realized you were completely wrong, since that's just 6.64%, and you edited your message while I was responding. Jesus Christ! You edited it a second time before I could post a response! I think it's funny. So edit #2: "Oh wait, your math is trash, 177 / (1767+177+664+25) ≠ 49%" (from the 2nd time you edited the message) No. You're having a brain fart. Apparently people find the phrase insulting. That's not my intention. In my first message, I mentioned that 49% is a failure to pass (a proposal). The reason that's important is it contrasts 67%, which is far past the passage threshold. You'd rather have a voting system that doesn't always get 50+% approval, so some laws/proposals actually fail. That's what a voting system is supposed to do - pass good ideas and prevent bad ideas. Your equation, then inequality doesn't make sense. The one that makes sense would be "1767 / (1767+177+664+25) = 67%" which is a true statement. I'm saying if you see 67% as contentious, there's a problem. Some things to note: You're obviously part of the CCP's '50 Cent Army'. You're being paid to say this. I, on the other hand, do this because I'm realizing how many world cultures are incompatible with things like 'voting', 'science', and 'treaties'. 1) There are many bad things to say about Trump. I'll agree. But we're free to say bad things about him. You, on the other hand, would go to prison for criticizing Xi Jinping or the Chinese Communist Party in general. My country's better than yours. 2) You decided to bring up Coronavirus numbers. Maybe you know, maybe you don't, but just about all of the world doubts China's numbers. I looked at the numbers at the beginning. One characteristic of the trend: deaths can happen on day 1, while recoveries require either multiple negative tests or a certain amount of time to pass without showing symptoms. This means deaths should outnumber recoveries at the very beginning. Just statistically if countries are reporting accurate numbers. Examples of 'accurate' or 'honest' numbers include Italy, Spain, Britain, and the U.S. Examples of 'inaccurate' or 'dishonest' numbers included Iran, Belgium, and Germany. I don't remember China's initial numbers/trend, but right now China's reported case numbers are in complete doubt; the international question is HOW MUCH is the CCP lying? The U.S. on the other hand, is one of the minority of countries reporting accurate numbers to the world. My country's better than yours. 3) You had this in your original post "Oh wait again, three Gorges Dam isn’t collapsed, or even close to have any dmg after these many years yet." 20 years isn't a lot of time for a dam to stand and celebrate its continued existence. It's especially bad since a number of dams *might* have been destroyed to lessen flood pressures (though I've been reading and watching news about dams, so the destruction might be from a 1970s dam failure and I might be mistaken), and the Three Gorges Dam is frequently opening all its floodgates and causing floods downstream. If you can't access the info where you are, use a VPN - the outside world has tons of pictures and videos of the devastation all over your country. The reason so many people are paying attention to the dam is we expect it to fail at any moment. The international community is better informed than most people living in China.
Yangtze has been a blessing and a scourge too for Chinese people living along the river. Reason being since time immemorial, each time it overflows its riverbanks, the river enriches and rejuvenates the land for farming but on the other hand, the flooding has been devastating too. To "tame the yellow dragon" has always been the dream of every successive dynasties/ chinese govts. The chinese will try and keep trying until success. Along the Yangtze, thats why there are numerous catchments and bypasses to channel the excess waters to other parts of China thats dry or desert and in need of water. My 2 cents.
One of the reason Shanghai sank by 1meter is the amount of ground water being siphone off domestic use. Beijing had similar problem but it being replemish by the water diversion project.
Matt I can't believed I've only discovered your channel just recently and subscribe, although I noticed you've been making vlog for many years. Found your videos informative/educating and of great quality both in pictures and content. I've been binge watching on your videos for the past few days to discovered your lovely family both from yours and Anna side and of course watching the beautiful angel Eva growing up. I can't believe the effort and energy you put into editing hours and hours of footage and travelling around the world. Where do you find the time and energy? Thanks for sharing all these great videos, I'll make sure to give a thumb up as I watch them. One question, where does your trademark name 'JaYoe' come from and does it means something? Regarding this video wow that's amazing! Great engineering, planning and execution. Can't imagine many other countries going through such big project without a tussle between the government and the opposition that end up going nowhere. Great job with the videos, keep it coming.
I believe 'JaYoe' comes from Chinese '加油‘, which literally means 'add petrol into a car engine'. It's a metaphor that when you can't overcome an obstacle and want to give up, you encourage yourself spiritually just like injecting more petrol into a car engine to get more power. Chinese people speak '加油', which pronounces similar to 'JaYoe' (the standard Chinese Pinyin should be ’Jia You‘), to encourage themselves or other people -- never give up. Basically, 'never give up' is one of the core value of Chinese traditional culture (aka. '自强不息' -- keep improving yourself and never stop), which has been developed battling with natural disasters for many thousand years dating back from the great flood era, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_(China)
Thank you very much for sharing...but, it is confusing??? From other news in these few days, where you were supposed to be raining, flooding and raging river. Here, it is sunny and the river is calm???
The dam's reservoir can't be 170 meters deep. Maximum level of water under flooding conditions is 175 meters above sea level, which probably avoiding affecting downtown Chongqing. River level under the dam is about 66 meters above sea level. The river is deep enough to be navigable so the river bed should be somewhere between 20 to 50 meters above sea level.
Matt, I love your work. But one of your statement saying about the dam's present failing at controlling flooding is not quite accurate. The dam does need to release water regularly during flooding time. That is basically the method, turning one huge water-flow into constant water-flow.
In another word, without the dam, the flooding would be much worse. Take the flooding in the same area in 1998 as an example. The rain was not as heavily as this year's, but the loss was enormous. Yangzi River is so unique that you can't just imagine its condition comparing to a common river. It's almost the longest river in the world, and also almost the largest economic value going along with it in the same time.
Sorry. I thought I explained that way. Actually I had a lot more but I had to cut it out. I had a whole section talking about the floods in 1954 and 1998. The dam actually would have prevented those floods basically from ever happening downstream. But the heavy rains today are unprecedented.
It's quite fascinating that globalization is always or for the majority of time a positive word in China. We believe that all lives in earth should be a unity.
Riiiiight - that's why instead of granting fair loans to foreign countries employing locals Chinese companies will lure countries into crippling debt AND THEN TRAFFIC chinese workers to the construction sites as well as chinese materials often times - therefore completely swallowing up the spending into China and leaving the recipient doomed and unable to pay back the loan.. but hey you can always lease out territory for 99 years and let the CCP build a U-boat port ay? Of course this has a positive connotation in China given that they make insane profits by scamming and extend their political control as well.
appreciate your knowledgable and balanced points of view. a good fun to watch. i had a cruise trip to 3 gorges on yangzte river from Yichang to Fengjie when i was a kid back in 1994, the dam was not built then. need to go back some day to see this massive architecture.
Thank you very much. Several years ago I and my family visited the dam, and had a very great time. Your wonderful viedo remind me of my fine memory! Good job, guys.
13:07 -- Are those water markings on the wall indicative of the water level during the height of the flooding? If so... dam. So many haters complaining about this dam, but without it, China's flooding would be so much worse.
No, the dam blocked what in the past was a natural basin for regular floods and farmers worked around it with the fertile deposits. All underwater now for hydro power.
I was there in 2002 before the dam finished, it was massive and incredible to look at, If China wants to build something, it will be built in a massive scale.
The dam video is finally publicized, after all the twists and turns you've been through. It's quite a shame you couldn't drone it or taking pictures from Barrets' imagenary airplane...
Actually Chinese surnames are very easy to memorize. And it's very polite to call someone's surname. If you call someone English name maybe she will think that you are calling someone else
The sediment problems of Yellow River is much worse than Yangtze River. Through long observation and research, China was able to develop some methods to minimize the sediment problem in front of the dams. The size of Shanghai is still increasing due to the sediment from Yangtze River. The sink of Shanghai was not related to the reduction of sediment.
interesting facts... yea the flood gates were designed to pull sediment from the bottom of the dam... there is a good documentary about the building of it.
They can dredge or it has an exhaust at the bottom ot the dam for those sediment not being accumulated. We study dams it is already included in the plan prior to implement the project.
An excellent Vblogger you are! I''ve watch many documentaries and National Geography is my favorite! There is a British Naval Admiral statue underneath the risen water after the dam was built
Stepped foot onto the dam a few times even inside some facilities thanks to family members working there. Climbed some peaks along the river with breathtaking views. there were flooding in the region almost every year which caused big losses before it was built.
Wish you all the best in China, and hope you can kip make interest video like this one very informative and with fare comment, hope to be back soon in the min time I will kip follow your chance to enjoy the real-life of China
There is a very very famous Chinese saying : “ IF YOU DON’T GO TO VISIT THE GREAT WALL YOU HAVE NOT BEEN A BIG STRONG MAN YET ! IF YOU DON’T GO TO SEE THE THREE GORGES DAM , FOR SURE YOU MISS SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE ！👏👏👏👏👏👏🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳💖💐💕
Id like to pan some of that sediment for gold or other precious metals. I knew that the dam was a mile long but wow nearly a mile and a half. Good video thanks for sharing.
I am bit sorry for the fact that you were kept out local hotel near Dam for security reason. I had a similar experience in 2008 in Beijing. Some small hotel refused me even though I am Chinese, just holding US passport. So some of these policy needs improvement. China as a country needs to be more considerate regarding both domestic and international treatment. There is no need of distinction between people. Hopefully with more international travelers in China, thing can get better.
I think because they have to register everyone to local police station. Too much effort for small hotels as they don't have enough staffs nor system to do that. Not just in Beijing, basically all across China. I also experiences something like this many times with small hotels.
With more international travelers things only got worse. Even pre-Covid, only a fraction of hotels in China are legally allowed to accept 'foreigners' as guests. Used to be much more welcoming to foreigners. Getting worse.
Put a lot of effort into trying to give some context to the dam was a lot of fun. There is so much that I was not able to touch on though. And there are many issues that make the dam a controversial structure. The fact is that it is there now, it does protect downstream from a large percentage of flooding... but it has not been a bandaid solution for all the problems mother nature throws its way... and that has been tragic.
Great work, Matt.
In fact, in our Chinese people's view, it is just another flooding year, just a bit heavier than ever before. The condition of the dam is not a worrying topic at all. I personally was a bit surprised that how the western world could make a scene of this topic. lol.
In fact when the dam was no there, the loss of flooding was way much bigger than now.
Matt, the water is not 175 meters deep. That number is the designed highest water surface height above SEA LEVEL. Note that the downstream water level is 66 meters on average above sea level.
没有三峡大坝，温州宁波每年都要被长江水淹没，有了三峡大坝可能十几年才淹没一次。这就是三峡大坝出最大价值，减小长江下游被洪水淹没所带来的直接经济损失
@@zackwang8286 ok ok... yea i guess there must be some places it is that deep.. i know at fengjia the water level indicator was up to 170.
I wonder what the weight of that concrete mass is. Its weight alone without foundations could stop a hell lot of water. It looks like it'll definitely be standing even if water starts flowing over it.
‘good doggy, good boy’ clean the river, that was cute
amazing dog.
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your welcome.
The dog social score is higher than laowhy and serpentza
Good to see the dam is safe and sound. Everything you show or demonstrate you show it with passion, objectivity and positive energy! Really enjoy each and every great video of yours. Keep up the good work, Matt!
He has to the ccp is keeping tabs on him.
Right, focus on the dam. Ignore the mud slides, flooding, destruction of towns and cities and agriculture.
Good fortune all.
So you’ve deemed the dam is safe and sound based on this video?
Super interesting to finally see the dam I heard so much about when we were in Chongqing. It’s crazy how it all works together hey. Lol at Oli‘a nose comment 😂😂
Many people don’t know that the Three Gorges Dam can manage such a large-scale water area. I think I need to change to a large-screen TV or go to the Three Gorges Dam in person to appreciate its hugeness.
From the damage the floods are causing, no it can't. During the design stage they could either focus on power generation or flood control. The party chose power generation so the flood control was minimal.
victor luke actually it is made clear that significantly fewer people die now from flooding since the dam was put in place. Someone has posted the statistics relating to this.
@@victorluke5816 Are you an engineer?
@@lindyashford7744 And those stats must have come from the ccp and you believe them. ;-(
@@kyudanpi4436 He's right don't need to be an engineer to figure it out.
An almost unbelievably enormous structure!! Awesome! JaYoe
Yes... really incredible. Glad I was able to visit. The fact that we stood so far away and could feel the cooling effect of the spray was interesting.
The closest to that sensation I've ever experienced are my many visits to Niagara. Water has incredible power and is always mesmerizing when seen from a safe distance!
Thanks Matt for this great video. Now I'm interested in visiting the dam myself.
That was an Enviroment friendly dog.
Thank you Matt and friends. China is beautiful.
Amazing !!!! Thank you guys for showing us on this well known dam. I want to travel to China when I graduate. I am learning Mandarin too so hope it will be useful.
well, welcome and good luck!
Thanks Matt. Terrific piece. Hope this might give Americans a prospective of China that news media and government wouldn't. People are people everywhere despite label makers try to make stick. For love of WORLD PEACE. Love you brother !!
Welcome Thomas!
the so called MSMs are intentionlly mis-report about the dam. Can't they afford to the in situ check when they reported it? Doesn't matter if the idiots still believe what they love to believe. Just let it be.
Is it true this trip was sponsored by the state?
But will it give Taiwan , Hong Kong, Falung gong, Chinese Christians , the uyghurs, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan , India, Vietnam, many in Australia and Phillipines, coerced organ "donors", disappeared dissidents,
and seemingly endless numbers of those aggrieved, exploited, abused a "new perspective?"
You're a CCP enabler but that soon won't matter.
@Ben Louis They were approached and asked to make this.
Thank you for sharing! I have been waiting for this video after your part 1 video. Love it..
The cause of flooding in China was not cause by the dam. It is because of the torrential rain currently experiencing by China, Korea and Japan.
China and Chinese haters will say the sever flooding is caused by the 3GD for obvious reasons. The reality is beside the 3GD, there are 3 more big dams at the upper reaches of the Yangtse, all computer coordinated and working together to control the peak flows of the mighty Yangtse. Even that they can only mitigate the damages due to once in a life-time rainfall and flooding
Just google "china floods 1931", hundreds of thousands of people used to die in the flods. There were other big floods after that. Situation is much better now and these dams helped.
@@yu-jd5jg 😂😂😂
Conspiracy wacko will said that Korea and Japan flood is also caused by the Dam or worse 5G DAM
You dont mention the millions that was displaced and never gets compensated on. You legitimize land theft against the people.
Love the dog who cleans up the river garbage...Nice job guys！
We took a cruise trip on Princess Victoria up stream Yangtze River to se the dam back in 2002 before the project was completed, before most of the villages & towns were flooded over. This block brings back very fond memories. Understand certain sacrifice has to made for a bigger picture & improvement of a country. Mind you, these villages were all relocated to new housings and/or compensated. It is sad to have to leave ones root, however, people do need to move on for a better future. We thank these people for their sacrifice.
To state that these villages were happily relocated\compensated is just untrue. Some may have been re-compensated but corruption by local government meant lots got nothing once forcibly evicted.
@@declanokeeffe84 I am sure mishandling & corruption took place in those days. However, we also wittnessed the poor condition some of the old villages were in, mostly wooden huts without water supply. Drinking water have to be carried from wells or pipes from one end of the village
If not miles away, cooking by firewood. This project as we can see eventually brought improvement to the area. It is a great pity some of the historic ancient cities were lost & people have to be moved out. It would be good if we can find some of these relocated people & find out how they feel about their changes today as in first person. The world do have to move on. This happened in history all over the world. Big numbers of people were moved & evicted for the great railways in the late 1800s & mid 1900s in the US. I doubt if they were all fairly compensated.
@Charles Huang
我知道你笨蛋 lol
Thank you for showing the dam is still standing. The haters will say the video is fake and wish something bad happen to it. Nobody say China is perfect but within the last 30-40 years to lift millions of people out of poverty. It is a great accomplishment.
That is a Good Video Matt,Everyone can see now there is nothing wrong with A dam,dammit😝
Steven Lee the only fault is that it is built by CCP . They won’t claim the Qin empire built the Great Wall
@@weizhang2834 the Great Wall was supposedly built to keep the mongols and manchus out? Did it work?
tell that to the late prof Huang whose last words before passing was reportedly “don’t build the dam.”
I'm glad you guys went there to show what's really happening. Media in the US and many youtube news were saying this dam was about to burst or curvy, So fed up with lies.
This kind of lies appears every year, because every year there is a flood season, and the Three Gorges dam is still there.
Not lies...this video is not from current time. Its old video.
After construction flaws were uncovered the dam was reinforced - naturally one can be concerned just how safe the dam really is. We will see if the dam stands the test of time despite low cred.
This is typical china paying someone to say good stuff about them
@@Anestary And you have a typical bias mindset of a foreigner who's never set foot in China and knows nothing of the country.
When I lived in China 24 years ago, every year the south would suffer from floods due heavy rainfall, cause thousands of death, the worst one I remember is in 1998, like 3 or 4 thousands deaths. But since recent years rain keeps falling and floods keeps coming, but human death getting much less to 1 or 2 hundreds like this year so far, heavy rainfall is comparable with 1998 , but death rate is less than 1 /10th. In this way I think Dam plays such crucial role to save human life, all bias on damage to ecological or social environment are in my eyes less considerable. There re never perfect plans in such big project. However if you re biased, you tend to focus on negative side but which is less crucial, like all medicines, have side effect but cure your desease.
great vid. again from the three gentlemen, really enjoy the content what is now happening in China
Can't wait your your next videos!
More more more!!
Great job , thanks for the video and your hard work .
Thank you 3 intrepid musketeers, Matt, Lee and Ollie for taking us on your adventures to see the 3 Gorges Dam. What a fantastic experience 👍
It is not just a weird time for China, it is a weird time everywhere.
True
Bye, you! Enjoy
@John Nolan what's wrong?
Paul B because of the virus.
Paul B 🥱
Each raining season, all of the rumors will pour down. Your video shows it is what it should be. Thanks for your marvelous video.
I really like all the little "did you knoq" bits in this video. Really interesting.
Yea. I love that stuff. :)
Thanks for another amazing video Matt.
that was a very good and smart dog. lol
i miss being impressed by china, I wish I can go back there after the pandemic. Look at you all, bunch of guys enjoying getting their mind blown, awesome feeling. Makes you really wonder how they made it from the first place. Simply Happiness. Jiayou
Your English makes you sound like you've never left China a single day in your life
J Byrd thanks
junaesi 😄
Really good to see the dog
Despite all the dispute of this dam, the dam did provide the great need for infrastructure construction in China ever since then. Concrete factories and steel industry were flourishing like never before. Later on, the great construction of railroads were also underway. Maybe the dam is not perfect in a lot of sense, but the ultimate goal of this dam as well as many other mega projects in China were to boost the Chinese economy through these investment. That is what makes it worthwhile
That dog is so smart, and be frankly it did better to protect env than most of us.
@London Lad I'm Chinese, and I have to admit that some people in some areas of China have the habit of eating dogs. But after all, only a small number of people do this, and I believe that fewer and fewer people will eat dogs.
@London Lad In fact South Korean people like to eat dogs more. When something bad that was found in mainland China. The Westen media will slander Chinese people. But if it was found in some other countries. It will just be some kind of culture. I love dogs, and I have raised two dogs as my family. I don't agree with eating dogs, At least 90% Chinese people don't eat dogs. Please don't make a "Few incidents" become national.
@London Lad may I ask if you're a self hating and self degrading "China man"?
@London Lad you are the one who had been brainwashed，I‘v never seen people eat dogs. theres 14hundred million people in China, is there 14hundred million dogs for every one? cant believe you believe that shit.SHAME ON YOU
The dog social score is higher than laowhy and serpentza
Your video reminds me of my trip there. It was few years ago and it was deserted too with only one other small tour group. We followed a tour to Zangjiajie, did the Yangtze cruise and had a guided tour of this dam. It was amazing!
I want to go see ZangJiaJie! It looks amazing from the photos.
Great Video Matt
and stupid reports that dam has little to no use ... just image the scale of flood without the dam. given the flood is this bad with it ?
yeah in 1931, great floods killed 3.7 million people. this year? only 200. so it shows that how important flood control is and how important these dams are.
cainegoh that’s the Taiwanese government propaganda they against everything ccp did
@@weizhang2834 well they have nothing else other than propaganda and fake news ...
it would be less that's not how dams work cainegoh
@@thearchitect5632 that was a collapsed dam giving that figure oh the irony
That dog is a well citizen. 👍
He's part of their social credit system now.
@@simtrate3959 What's so wrong with that then
The dog social score is higher than laowhy and serpentza
10:29 Hi, Matt, I have some add-ons for your claim. 3 Gorges Dam project has the historical lowest (relatively speaking) support vote in the National People's Congress to get an approval, there was a huge debate on environmental and national security etc. for days before the controversial approval (1767:177:664). And the controversy is still going on and never loosening its focus. It is more than the finger-snap Chinese-authority stereotype made the decision than you think. It is not universally approved and it did not start/decided with the 'leader' 朱镕基主席 by the time, the whole profound vision started by the time of Sun Zhongshan 孙中山 (Sun Yat-sen) the father of our nation.
Update: sorry matt I didn't finish that session when you talk about it, actually you have the data of the vote of from the congress. I apologise.
Good music choice with delicate content, thanks for your effort.
Cool. Yea it was certainly not unanimous
gnews.org/256064/ and why just look at the dam in isolation of what the dam has done to both the upstream and downstream.. save the prestigious dam by ruining villages downstream is not something one can ignore
Hi this is why your people are too primitive and brainwashed to be compatible with a voting system. Two thirds requirement is needed to amend the U.S. Constitution. Two thirds of the group agreeing on something is seen as overwhelming support. If you see two-thirds approval on something as dissent, voting is pointless, fictitious. 49% is what is needed for a proposal to fail. If near 100% agreement is common and 67% is contentious, 49% (actually saying 'no') seems unheard of. 67% IS the "finger-snap Chinese-authority stereotype".
@@Toshinben but your non-primitive non-brainwashed voting system is referring to US’s? allow me, no offence but a country which has an electoral voting system lets a marvellous president like Trump elected who allows his own country having 5,500,000+, one-fourth of the global infected cases and 172,000+, one-fifth global death from COVID-19 up to date? Hmm, sounds isn't very super persuasive to me. Maybe your non-primitive non-brainwashed voting system isn’t considering any for those minority 172,000+ bc DEAD people’s vote is pointless and fictitious to your voting system I assume.
Here is a primitive Chinese philosophy you may need to understand how people seeing you people which cannot be translated correctly by Google: 站着说话不腰疼
Oh wait, your math is trash too, 177 / (1767+177+664+25) ≠ 49%
Oh wait again, three Gorges Dam isn’t collapsed, or even not close to having any dmg after these many years natural disasters yet.
@UCpegCdvP3sp3Y6NTn4ABhvw Ohhhh! Lol. I was just responding to your "Oh wait, you need to improve your math, this one needs to be corrected: 177 / (1767+177+664+25)=49% " thing, but it seems you realized you were completely wrong, since that's just 6.64%, and you edited your message while I was responding.
Jesus Christ! You edited it a second time before I could post a response! I think it's funny.
So edit #2: "Oh wait, your math is trash, 177 / (1767+177+664+25) ≠ 49%" (from the 2nd time you edited the message) No. You're having a brain fart. Apparently people find the phrase insulting. That's not my intention. In my first message, I mentioned that 49% is a failure to pass (a proposal). The reason that's important is it contrasts 67%, which is far past the passage threshold. You'd rather have a voting system that doesn't always get 50+% approval, so some laws/proposals actually fail. That's what a voting system is supposed to do - pass good ideas and prevent bad ideas. Your equation, then inequality doesn't make sense. The one that makes sense would be "1767 / (1767+177+664+25) = 67%" which is a true statement. I'm saying if you see 67% as contentious, there's a problem.
Some things to note: You're obviously part of the CCP's '50 Cent Army'. You're being paid to say this. I, on the other hand, do this because I'm realizing how many world cultures are incompatible with things like 'voting', 'science', and 'treaties'.
1) There are many bad things to say about Trump. I'll agree. But we're free to say bad things about him. You, on the other hand, would go to prison for criticizing Xi Jinping or the Chinese Communist Party in general. My country's better than yours.
2) You decided to bring up Coronavirus numbers. Maybe you know, maybe you don't, but just about all of the world doubts China's numbers. I looked at the numbers at the beginning. One characteristic of the trend: deaths can happen on day 1, while recoveries require either multiple negative tests or a certain amount of time to pass without showing symptoms. This means deaths should outnumber recoveries at the very beginning. Just statistically if countries are reporting accurate numbers. Examples of 'accurate' or 'honest' numbers include Italy, Spain, Britain, and the U.S. Examples of 'inaccurate' or 'dishonest' numbers included Iran, Belgium, and Germany. I don't remember China's initial numbers/trend, but right now China's reported case numbers are in complete doubt; the international question is HOW MUCH is the CCP lying? The U.S. on the other hand, is one of the minority of countries reporting accurate numbers to the world. My country's better than yours.
3) You had this in your original post "Oh wait again, three Gorges Dam isn’t collapsed, or even close to have any dmg after these many years yet." 20 years isn't a lot of time for a dam to stand and celebrate its continued existence. It's especially bad since a number of dams *might* have been destroyed to lessen flood pressures (though I've been reading and watching news about dams, so the destruction might be from a 1970s dam failure and I might be mistaken), and the Three Gorges Dam is frequently opening all its floodgates and causing floods downstream. If you can't access the info where you are, use a VPN - the outside world has tons of pictures and videos of the devastation all over your country. The reason so many people are paying attention to the dam is we expect it to fail at any moment. The international community is better informed than most people living in China.
I love your video, not because your pro china content, but the style of video, very relaxing and made my day
Yangtze has been a blessing and a scourge too for Chinese people living along the river. Reason being since time immemorial, each time it overflows its riverbanks, the river enriches and rejuvenates the land for farming but on the other hand, the flooding has been devastating too. To "tame the yellow dragon" has always been the dream of every successive dynasties/ chinese govts. The chinese will try and keep trying until success. Along the Yangtze, thats why there are numerous catchments and bypasses to channel the excess waters to other parts of China thats dry or desert and in need of water. My 2 cents.
And many more new dams erected up in the recent years
One of the reason Shanghai sank by 1meter is the amount of ground water being siphone off domestic use. Beijing had similar problem but it being replemish by the water diversion project.
Groundwater displacement is a big issue.
Haha, I’m Barrett’s fan, super fan, they look so tired, what happened, take care 😂
We had a action packed few days! Welcome.
Matt I can't believed I've only discovered your channel just recently and subscribe, although I noticed you've been making vlog for many years. Found your videos informative/educating and of great quality both in pictures and content. I've been binge watching on your videos for the past few days to discovered your lovely family both from yours and Anna side and of course watching the beautiful angel Eva growing up. I can't believe the effort and energy you put into editing hours and hours of footage and travelling around the world. Where do you find the time and energy? Thanks for sharing all these great videos, I'll make sure to give a thumb up as I watch them. One question, where does your trademark name 'JaYoe' come from and does it means something? Regarding this video wow that's amazing! Great engineering, planning and execution. Can't imagine many other countries going through such big project without a tussle between the government and the opposition that end up going nowhere. Great job with the videos, keep it coming.
I believe 'JaYoe' comes from Chinese '加油‘, which literally means 'add petrol into a car engine'. It's a metaphor that when you can't overcome an obstacle and want to give up, you encourage yourself spiritually just like injecting more petrol into a car engine to get more power. Chinese people speak '加油', which pronounces similar to 'JaYoe' (the standard Chinese Pinyin should be ’Jia You‘), to encourage themselves or other people -- never give up.
Basically, 'never give up' is one of the core value of Chinese traditional culture (aka. '自强不息' -- keep improving yourself and never stop), which has been developed battling with natural disasters for many thousand years dating back from the great flood era, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_(China)
Thanks for sharing your dam adventure!
Nice video... Incredible Chinese!
Love it
Thanks for this Matt. I like your vids, your tolerance and open minded ness. Don't think you are disrespectful here
Love this vedio! Wish I could visit there once the pandemic is over! You guys are really lucky
Thank you very much for sharing...but, it is confusing??? From other news in these few days, where you were supposed to be raining, flooding and raging river. Here, it is sunny and the river is calm???
GREAT VIDEO ! GOOD JOB ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳💖💐💕
THE WHOLE DAM IS JUST FOR YOU ? 😂😂😂😂😂
Nice little trip to the damn. I remember seeing it when it was near the end of construction.
Wow that would have been a neat comparison.
Now go find the massive housing units that were welded shut with people inside and see if they ever got out.
Yea you get the truth. ccp build this dam to kill people for no reason. Satisfied?
Amazing video, I had know idea that the dam was that huge. I love your video’s they give a different perspective on China
Well thank you rich, I appreciate your appreciation
Hi Matt , again what a great video ! And also appreciate the beautiful food at end
Was that a bird head in the soup???
The dam's reservoir can't be 170 meters deep. Maximum level of water under flooding conditions is 175 meters above sea level, which probably avoiding affecting downtown Chongqing. River level under the dam is about 66 meters above sea level. The river is deep enough to be navigable so the river bed should be somewhere between 20 to 50 meters above sea level.
Good to see a travel trip (and I don't mind family/Eva vlogs) besides most of latest livestream videos.
Matt, I love your work. But one of your statement saying about the dam's present failing at controlling flooding is not quite accurate. The dam does need to release water regularly during flooding time. That is basically the method, turning one huge water-flow into constant water-flow.
In another word, without the dam, the flooding would be much worse. Take the flooding in the same area in 1998 as an example. The rain was not as heavily as this year's, but the loss was enormous. Yangzi River is so unique that you can't just imagine its condition comparing to a common river. It's almost the longest river in the world, and also almost the largest economic value going along with it in the same time.
Sorry. I thought I explained that way. Actually I had a lot more but I had to cut it out. I had a whole section talking about the floods in 1954 and 1998. The dam actually would have prevented those floods basically from ever happening downstream. But the heavy rains today are unprecedented.
@@JaYoeNation yeap yeap ：）
It's quite fascinating that globalization is always or for the majority of time a positive word in China. We believe that all lives in earth should be a unity.
Riiiiight - that's why instead of granting fair loans to foreign countries employing locals Chinese companies will lure countries into crippling debt AND THEN TRAFFIC chinese workers to the construction sites as well as chinese materials often times - therefore completely swallowing up the spending into China and leaving the recipient doomed and unable to pay back the loan.. but hey you can always lease out territory for 99 years and let the CCP build a U-boat port ay?
Of course this has a positive connotation in China given that they make insane profits by scamming and extend their political control as well.
appreciate your knowledgable and balanced points of view. a good fun to watch. i had a cruise trip to 3 gorges on yangzte river from Yichang to Fengjie when i was a kid back in 1994, the dam was not built then. need to go back some day to see this massive architecture.
JaYoe, finally I got to visit the three gorges dam . Thank you guy for the great
Video .
Thank you very much. Several years ago I and my family visited the dam, and had a very great time. Your wonderful viedo remind me of my fine memory! Good job, guys.
Excellent, Matt!
13:07 -- Are those water markings on the wall indicative of the water level during the height of the flooding? If so... dam.
So many haters complaining about this dam, but without it, China's flooding would be so much worse.
Yup. Those markings are like 5 meters up. Amazing!!!
No, the dam blocked what in the past was a natural basin for regular floods and farmers worked around it with the fertile deposits. All underwater now for hydro power.
@@nonacee5065 ..."Regular" floods in China have killed millions of people historically.
I was there in 2002 before the dam finished, it was massive and incredible to look at, If China wants to build something, it will be built in a massive scale.
I like this video, informative. Bravo.
what was the payment procedure for video?
Rupees
The dam video is finally publicized, after all the twists and turns you've been through. It's quite a shame you couldn't drone it or taking pictures from Barrets' imagenary airplane...
Haha yea. But I think we did ok. I really wanted to see the turbines.
Jayoe matt! Love your videos!
Actually Chinese surnames are very easy to memorize. And it's very polite to call someone's surname. If you call someone English name maybe she will think that you are calling someone else
Amazing! Thanks for bringing this video for us!
The sediment problems of Yellow River is much worse than Yangtze River. Through long observation and research, China was able to develop some methods to minimize the sediment problem in front of the dams. The size of Shanghai is still increasing due to the sediment from Yangtze River. The sink of Shanghai was not related to the reduction of sediment.
interesting facts... yea the flood gates were designed to pull sediment from the bottom of the dam... there is a good documentary about the building of it.
They can dredge or it has an exhaust at the bottom ot the dam for those sediment not being accumulated. We study dams it is already included in the plan prior to implement the project.
the JaYoe Nation can you share the link of the documentary please
great video. Felt almost like I was there with you guys!!!
thank you very taking me to to Dam for video tour! really worth to visit place in life time!
great shot.
Fantastic looking area.
Thanks for sharing 😊 quite useful
Can’t wait for your next few videos heading down stream. Want to see where all that water is going.
Thank you for sharing this videos with us, there are a lots of confessions about the dam collapsed .
An excellent Vblogger you are! I''ve watch many documentaries and National Geography is my favorite! There is a British Naval Admiral statue underneath the risen water after the dam was built
Stepped foot onto the dam a few times even inside some facilities thanks to family members working there. Climbed some peaks along the river with breathtaking views. there were flooding in the region almost every year which caused big losses before it was built.
Thank you for showing us the truth of the dam.....n also the tasty meals u have ,do makes me hungry😋.
Wish you all the best in China, and hope you can kip make interest video like this one very informative and with fare comment, hope to be back soon in the min time I will kip follow your chance to enjoy the real-life of China
视频制作非常精良，尤其是上面的小tips
非常喜欢 点赞👍
You should visit Dujiangyan one day, it has been built more than 2000 years and it's still working in our modern days.
awesome video dude...that area is so beautiful
Thanks Matt, excellent video. But I didn't see any 3 Gorges, all I saw was 3 Gorgeous Guys having a great time together...Ja Yoe.
There is a very very famous Chinese saying : “ IF YOU DON’T GO TO VISIT THE GREAT WALL YOU HAVE NOT BEEN A BIG STRONG MAN YET ! IF YOU DON’T GO TO SEE THE THREE GORGES DAM , FOR SURE YOU MISS SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE ！👏👏👏👏👏👏🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳💖💐💕
The environment in China is relatively cleanerChina has a future for development
awesome. keep up the good reporting, mate !!
Great video. Been waiting for someone to do a video of 3G dam after all the rubbish doom and gloom promoted by YT algo
Good video
Cool journey!
Wow didn't know the Dan is soooo grand👍
awesome vlog!
The canal pound lock is a chinese specialty since time immemorial....like forever in imperial dynastic era:)
Plenty of remarks on a dog but nobody mentioning the cute tour guide? That's a 1st!
great tour to the dam. I love to be there soon
Id like to pan some of that sediment for gold or other precious metals. I knew that the dam was a mile long but wow nearly a mile and a half. Good video thanks for sharing.
Wow that's enormous
I am bit sorry for the fact that you were kept out local hotel near Dam for security reason. I had a similar experience in 2008 in Beijing. Some small hotel refused me even though I am Chinese, just holding US passport. So some of these policy needs improvement. China as a country needs to be more considerate regarding both domestic and international treatment. There is no need of distinction between people. Hopefully with more international travelers in China, thing can get better.
I think it’s fine. I understand this is a special time and you just have to roll with it.
I think because they have to register everyone to local police station. Too much effort for small hotels as they don't have enough staffs nor system to do that.
Not just in Beijing, basically all across China. I also experiences something like this many times with small hotels.
With more international travelers things only got worse. Even pre-Covid, only a fraction of hotels in China are legally allowed to accept 'foreigners' as guests. Used to be much more welcoming to foreigners. Getting worse.
Good job 👍❤️