Qingtongxia Dam

　　In 1958, the Qingtongxia Dam, the second hydro-junction project on the Yellow River basin, began construction. In 1960, a dam 42.7 meters high and 697 meters long was built across the Yellow River at Qingtongxia, along with China's only pier-type hydropower station, with an installed capacity of 305,000 kilowatts. This formed a canyon-type reservoir with a capacity of 6 million cubic meters and a backwater length of 5 kilometers. The reservoir allows tourists to go boating and enjoy the natural scenery of the Yellow River in the northwest.

　　It was opened to the public in 1985.

　　Standing on the majestic dam and looking around, you can see the solemn Buddhist holy site—Niushou Mountain Temple Complex to the east; to the west, the rare "One Hundred and Eight Pagodas"—the Mui Guoying General Platform (a pagoda cluster, actually a Buddhist commemorative structure); and to the south, the vast “high gorges and flat lake”—the waters of the reservoir area. This is the grand and spectacular large-scale hydro-junction project located in the Qingtongxia Scenic Area, integrating power generation, irrigation, and flood control. Known as the "Pearl on the Frontier," it is the Qingtongxia Dam.