Yichang

alternative Ichang · alternative I-ch'ang

1. A large prefecture-level city in western Hubei, China.

   Located in western Hubei Province, Yidu, like Yichang, is part of the area known as the "Gateway to the Three Gorges".

   2023 January 9, Gorgeous Yichang, “Yidu City of Yichang”, in YouTube, archived from the original on 21 May 2023

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   To begin in the Yangtze Valley between Yi-ch’ang (Hupei) and Pa-tung (Szechwan), in the Hsiling Gorge area that was the gateway to the Red basin to the west: fifty-four early sites investigated in 1960 have been grouped into five categories, ranging in date, according to the estimates of the investigators, from Neolithic to Han.

   [1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177

   Ships of over 1,000 tons today can make the 680-kolometer round trip between Yichang and Chungking in 5 or 6 days, instead of 10 to 15 days formerly, thanks to the enormous amount of work done after liberation to make this most perilous section of the Yangtze River safe for navigation.

   1972 December 14 [1972 December 3], “Szechwan Yangtze River Navigation”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 242, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 4

   HUANG Sheng-hsiao, a veteran longshoreman in the port of Yichang on the mid-Yangtze, wrote these lines to praise the new life of the dock workers and the tremendous changes that have come over the port. [...]Now 56, Huang Sheng-hsiao is chairman of the Crewmen and Dockers Club in Yichang and a member of the Committee of the Yangtze Crewmen and Dockers Trade Union. [...]In 1949 Yichang was liberated. [...]In 1951 he was named Class A Model Propagandist of Yichang. [...]During the Big Leap Forward in 1958, like people all over the country, the longshoremen of Yichang were fired with daring and enthusiasm.

   1974 September, Huo Pai-lin, “Huang Sheng-hsiao, Longshoreman and Poet”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIII, number 9, →OCLC, pages 40–41

   Images of an apparently twisted Three Gorges dam surfaced on social media last week, fuelling online concerns that the dam was posing a disastrous flooding threat to downstream towns and villages. However, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said the circulated satellite images were fake and posted its own picture showing a straight dam spanning the river near Yichang in the central province of Hubei. “Nothing wrong with the Three Gorges Dam,” the company declared.

   2019 July 8, Didi Tang, “Fears rise over safety of China’s Three Gorges dam”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2021