Sandouping

alternative San-tou-p'ing

1. A town in Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.

   The rural dwellers who will be moved are scattered throughout 19 counties and municipalities, from Sandouping in Yichang Municipality, to Mudong Township in Ba County.

   1998, Dai Qing, translated by Yi Ming, edited by John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams, The River Dragon has Come! The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 44

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   So it is not surprising that, in this century, China's leaders should dream of harnessing the river, taming its floods and turning its raw power into electricity. And now, near the small town of Sandouping at the mouth of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze, their dreams are slowly taking shape.

   1997 January 5, Zheng Nian, “A Flood of Troubles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2022, Section 34, page 34

   The town of Sandouping in Xiling Gorge, now the site of the Three Gorges Dam, was known for a short time as "Little Wuhan" because of all the commercial activity generated by the thousands of people who stopped there on the way to Chongqing.

   2002, Deirdre Chetham, “War Along the Yangtze”, in Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108

   Even before the onset of the economic crisis, power availability was improving owing to the completion of the Three Gorges dam and the installation of the last of the massive generating turbines at Sandouping.

   2009 January 8, John Kemp, “Downturn hits China's manufacturing heartland: John Kemp”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2022, Columns

2. A residential community in Sandouping, Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.