Chinese President Xi Jinping takes a wooden club used to beat clothes in washing from a villager and talks with villagers at Xujiachong Village of Taipingxi Town in Yichang City, central China's Hubei Province, April 24, 2018. Xujiachong is a village for people relocated to make way for the construction of the Three Gorges project. President Xi on Tuesday inspected the Three Gorges Dam, which lies on the Yangtze River in Yichang City. As the world's largest hydropower project, the Three Gorges project is a multi-functional water control system consisting of a dam stretching 2,309 meters long and 185 meters high, 32 hydropower turbo-generators, a five-tier ship lock and a shiplift. Xi inspected the ship lock, the shiplift and the power plants on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, and listened to reports about work on topics including construction, power generation, navigation and environmental protection. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)
