It is estimated that during the festival, which will be held through to October 30, some 1 million domestic and overseas tourists will visit Yichang. The city is also the nearest city to the site of the world's biggest water control project -- the Three Gorges Dam Project at the middle reaches of the Yangtze.

According to local sources, 62 tourism activities, including 12 theme tourism programs such as a grand opening gala, a tour of the Three Gorges, tour of the construction site of the Three Gorges water control project, will be hosted.

During the same period, a number of exhibitions and a month-long film festival will be on show, said the local sources.

(People's Daily 10/01/2000)