State Leaders' Concern for Yichang

Chairman Mao Zedong inspected the Three Gorges (Mar.1958)

Former Premier Zhou Enlai inspected the Three Gorges (Mar.1958)

Liu Shaoqi,former President of the PRC, inspected the dam site of the TGP (1961)

Deng Xiaoping,former Vice-Premier of the State Council and designer of the Chinese Reform and Open Policy, inspected the Three Gorges (July 1980)

Li Xiannian,former President of the PRC, inspected the TGP (1981)

Bo Yibo,former Vice-Director of the CPC Central Advisory Committee,inspected Zhongbaodao－the dam site of the TGP (1981)

Wang Zhen,former Member of the CPC Political Bureau,inspected Zhongbaodao－the dam site of the TGP (Nov.1981·Nov.1982)

Peng Zhen,former Member of the CPC Political Bureau, inspected the dam site of the TGP (1982)

Deng Yingchao,former Vice-Chairman of the National Women's Union, inquired the conditions of the TGP (1982)

Wan Li,former Vice-Premier of the State Council,listened to the introduction to the TGP (1982)

Hu Yaobang,former General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee,inspected the Gezhouba Dam (June 1982 ·Apr.1984)

Qiao Shi,former Director of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress,inspected the dam site of the TGP (Apr.1984·June 1996 )

Li Peng,former Premier of the State Council,inspected Yichang (Oct.1984·Nov.1992·Dec.1994·Nov.1995·Nov.1997)

Qian Zengying,former Vice-Chairman of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, inspected the Three Gorges reservoir area (1986)

Jiang Zemin,then served as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and president of the PRC,inspected the Three Gorges Project (July 1989·Oct.1994·Nov.1997)

Li Ruihuan,former Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the Political Consultant Conference of China, inspected the dam site of the TGP (Nov.1990· May 1996)

Wang Guangying,former Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress,led the delegation of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference investigating Zhongbaodao, the dam site of the TGP (1991)

Chen Muhua,former Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress,inspected the Three Gorges (1991)

Li Tieying,former Member of the Political Bureau,inspected Zhongbaodaoinspected Zhongbaodao, the dam site of the TGP (Feb.1992 ·Oct.1995)

Tian Jiyun,former Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Vice Premier of the State Council,inquired the verifications of the TGP (1992)

Zou Jiahua,former Vic- Premier of the State Council, inspected the reservoir area in Yichang (Sept.28,1993)

Rong Yiren,former Vice-Premier of the State Council,inspected the TGP exhibition center (1994)

Lu Ping,former Standing Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Military Committee,inspected the China Three Gorges Development Cooperation (1994)

Zhu Rongji, then served as the Vice-Premier of the State Council,inspected Yichang ( Nov.1995)

Wu Bangguo,former Vice-Premier of the State Council, inspected Yichang (Dec.1996)