The Goupitan shiplift () is a boat lifting system on the
Wu River, a tributary of the
Yangtze River
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
in
Guizhou Province
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, southwest of
China
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. A system of three
boat lifts supplements the
Goupitan Dam in order to provide shipping along the river.
The designed capacity of the system is 2.928 million tons of cargo per year. It allows ships with a displacement of up to 500 tons to pass, lifting them to a height of . The construction of the boat lifting system was carried out after the completion of the power plant,
[ it was completed in 2021,][ the cost of building the system was US$777.51 million. The structure of its facilities, in their order from downstream:][
* Vertical boat lift with a lifting height of , the height can change along with the water level of the downstream and can reach ;
* Concrete bridge navigable aqueduct for the passage of ships to the boat lift of the second level;
* Second vertical boat lift with a lifting height of ;
* Navigable aqueduct of the second level for the passage of ships;
* Tunnel for the passage of ships from the aqueduct of the second level towards the upstream;
* Vertical boat lift of the upstream pool, the height of the descent can change along with the water level in the reservoir and can reach .
The total length of the two aqueducts, the navigation tunnel and the boat lifts is . In 2023, the second boat lift with a vertical drop of is the tallest in the world.][
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See also
* The Geheyan Dam with similar boat lifting system
References
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[{{cite web, title=Goupitan Hydropower Station, url=http://www.baju.com.cn/web/Production/ProductionShow.asp?ID=192, publisher=Eighth China Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering Bureau, Ltd., accessdate=26 September 2011, language=Chinese, archive-date=4 March 2016, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044228/http://www.baju.com.cn/web/Production/ProductionShow.asp?ID=192, url-status=dead]
[{{cite news , url = http://www.redaelli.com/en/news-multimedia/news/news/article/redaelli-fornisce-le-funi-per-il-piu-alto-shiplift-del-mondo-goupitan-guizhou-cina-91/ , title = Redaelli supplies the steel wire ropes for the tallest shiplift in the world , work = Redaelli , date = 2016-12-12 , accessdate = 2018-09-12 , url-status = live , archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180913112611/http://www.redaelli.com/en/news-multimedia/news/news/article/redaelli-fornisce-le-funi-per-il-piu-alto-shiplift-del-mondo-goupitan-guizhou-cina-91/ , archivedate = 2018-09-13 , quote = By mean of this ship-lift a water level difference of 199 meters is overcome by mean of 3 stage of lifting, the 2nd stage alone being 127 meters, more than the overall high of the Three Gorges dam.]
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{{cite news
, url = http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-07/03/c_139186162_4.htm
, title = View of Goupitan hydropower station in Yuqing County, Guizhou
, work = ]Xinhua
Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: ),J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English or New China News Agency, is the official State media, state news agency of the China, People's Republic ...
, date = 2020-07-03
, archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20201013234702/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-07/03/c_139186162_4.htm
, archivedate = 2020-10-13
, url-status = dead
, quote = Aerial photo taken on July 2, 2020 shows the vertical ship lift at the Goupitan hydropower station in Yuqing County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Goupitan hydropower station navigation project is scheduled to be put into use in March, 2021.
Boat lifts
Rivers of Guizhou