On November 6, 1997, Three Gorges Project entered the stage of Yangtze River rerouting. The rerouting of Yangtze River is a symbol of first stage project's victory.
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric river dam that spans the Yangtze River in Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei, China. It is the largest hydro-electric power station in the world. Except the ship lift, all the original plan of the project was completed on Oct. 30, 2008, when the 26th generator was brought to commerical operation. Six additional generators in the underground power plant are being installed, with the dam thus not expected to become fully operational until about 2012. The total electric generating capacity of the dam will reach 22,500 MW.
As with many dams, there is a debate over costs and benefits. Although there are economic benefits such as flood control, clean hydroelectricity and navigation, there are also concerns about the relocation of people, siltation, loss of archaeological and cultural sites and the impact on regional ecosystem.
Project History
After the 1949 communist victory, the leader Mao Zedong supported the project, but the Gezhouba Dam project was begun first and economic problems including the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution slowed progress. In 1958, after the Hundred Flowers Campaign, some engineers who spoke out against the project were imprisoned.
During the 1980s plans were revived. Pushed through by Li Peng, the dam was approved by the National People's Congress in 1992 with a record number of abstentions and dissenting votes. The construction started on December 14, 1994. The dam was expected to be fully operational in 2009, but due to additional projects such as the underground power plant with 6 additional generators, and due to the complexity of the ship lift, the dam is not expected to become fully operational until about 2011. The dam will raise the water level the third time to its designed maximum water level (175 m above sea level) by the end of 2008.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Three Gorges Project Started Rerouting the River
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
China Video Sharing Industry will Reshuffle
Liu Yan, the CEO of video web site "6 Room" (6.cn) said 6 Room plans to lay off employees from 200 to 60, but don't like the rumors of only 10.
At the same time, Liu Yan said 6 Rooms will not layoff before the end of this year. On the contrary, the company will hire about 10 employees.
Turning to the employees be laid off, Liu Yan said that he gave the highest compensation to all the retrenched employees, and will continue to retain their mailbox. After the Company to be profitable, he hope they could come back.
It is reported that the video-sharing Web site UUSee, PPLIVE have confirmed that layoffs, and there are the layoff rumors of Tudou, Ku6 and Youku.
At present, I think there 4 type of web sites are most likely to close down. They are video sharing, SNS social networking, search for life and online game. Because mainly rely on the support of venture capital, the video sharing sites are most affected by the financial crisis.
Some video sharing sites which does not have sufficient capital reserves will lay off and scale down. Some major sites must take advantage of this opportunity to promote the industry reshuffle.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Google Adds New Technology to Search PDF Files
Google rarely include scanning document in their search results page, because it can not determine the nature of the content. However, this situation will change. Google said it will use optical character recognition (OCR) software to enable Web surfers to search any PDF files which are developed by Adobe.
Evin Levey, Google product manager said that Google will use this technology to scan document into a text file. This will search for documents, index and return the answers to Google search queries.
Google's such a OCR application is expected to help Google Book Search. This is an ambitious and controversial plan releaseed by Google at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2004. Since then, Google scans 3000 books/day from the world's major libraries.
Although the plan was raised copyright concerns firstly. However, Google has reached a settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers on this issue. According to the agreement, in the United States, Google will be able to expand online access to millions of copyrighted books and other written content. The agreement to resolve a number of legal issues which challenge Google on the search and display the content of the copyrighted books. Google does not need copyright owners' approval and share digital versions of books with the libraries.
At present, due to the content of the network continues to multiply grow, the current search engine technology based on the nature of the text is clearly inadequate. This is because the current generation of search engines can only find multimedia files with notes text. Notes text is a laborious and time-consuming process. Content producers often overlook this issue.
David Wadhwani, vice president of Adobe explained that they are initially cooperate with the Google and Yahoo to significantly improve the multimedia content search. They intend to expand the such applications so that all the publishers, developers and users benefit.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Legend Produced China's First 586 PC
November 5, Legend entered the Pentium era, producing China's first 586 PC.
586 refers to the Intel processor. It is a type of Intel 80x86 processors. Intel 80x86 series processors includ 8086, 80286, 80386, 80486 and 80586. 8086 and 80286 belong to the 16-bit operating system, from 80386 to P4 are 32-bit operating system.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Lengend Mergerd with ICT
November 4, 1998, the Institute Of Computing Technology Chinese Academy Of Sciences and Lengend Group hold a reporters forum, announced the ICT would be the "Lengend Corporate Research & Development" after restructuring.
Lengend Corporate Research & Development was finally established in January 1999, became the central R & D institutions of Lengend Group.
Since its inception, the Lengend Corporate Research & Development has always been committed to promote technological progress and long-term development of the company, to provide long-lasting core competitiveness and create new profit growth point for China's information industry, to provide the driving force for innovation.
After the rename of Lengend Group, the Lengend Corporate Research & Development has also changed its name to the Lenovo Corporate Research & Development.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
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