Shicheng City - china's atlantis city

[george lee]

shicheng city, a city, that is submerged underwater for the hydropower station in xin'an. i like progress but wiping out a city with 1339 years of history is heartbroken.

 

story

 

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2011-03/18/c_13785649.htm

 

more pictures

 

http://www.lovethesepics.com/2012/06/lost-underwater-lion-city-rediscovery-of-chinas-atlantis/

[Mick]

Thanks so much for posting this. Those photos are incredible. The article mentions that many were relocated for the hydroelectric project back in 1959. More recently, the Three Gorges Dam necessitated the removal of many citizens that had lived in various cities all their lives and where their families had lived for hundreds or even thousands of years. I suspect there are now many more underwater cities in that area of the mighty Chang Jiang. The Three Gorges project was very controversial and aroused a good bit of protest in China while I was living over there. It was the prototypical conflict between those in favor of progress and those whose priority was preservation of historical sites. Both sides have valid points, but it is a shame that many have to suffer.

 

On a much smaller scale than Three Gorges, down here in the Tennessee Valley of northern Alabama and southern Tennessee, back in the 30s and 40s, many folks lost their homes and land and had to move when TVA built a series of dams along the Tennessee River, flooding large tracts of land and creating many beautiful lakes. A number of Civil War sites were lost in the process, as well as some very old Native American sites.

[dan1984]

Amazing！