1981年7月,葛洲坝工程二江电厂1号机组并网发电,开始发挥效益。当强大电流通过高高的铁塔、输电线源源不断送往千里之遥的工厂、矿山时,位于西陵峡出口处的千百年来淤积而成江心沙洲的小岛,从此伴随它身上承载的“钢筋混凝土巨人”的拦河大坝,让“葛洲坝”这个地图上找不到、外地人没听说过的地名声震中外,享誉寰球。要说清葛洲坝工程的来龙去脉,还得先从三峡工程谈起。 In July 1981, Unit 1 of the Gezhouba Project’s Erjiang Power Plant was connected to the grid for power generation and began to play an effective role. When strong currents flow through the tall iron towers and power lines to the factories and mines thousands of miles away, the islands at the exit of the Xiling Gorge that have accumulated over the centuries have become the islands of the Jiangxinsha Chau. The barrage dam of the “reinforced concrete giant” made the name “Gezhouba” not found on the map and the names of people who have not heard of it outside the territory were well known. To talk about the ins and outs of the Qinggezhou dam project, we must start with the Three Gorges project.