July 11, 1998 (May 18) Tiger years leap, the Three Gorges Project waters due to the flood peak impact fully closed routes.

by a third of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River flood peak in 1998, approved by the Ministry of Communications, the diversion channel of the Yangtze River Three Gorges Project 32 from the closed routes from July 11. This is a diversion channel from October 6, 1997 and put into use for the first time since the closed routes, temporary ship lock of the Three Gorges Project has been closed routes starting at 2:10 p.m. on July 10, and thus, the Three Gorges Project waters navigable been fully stopped.
Three Gorges Project damming the river since November 1997 to 2003, borne by the diversion channel and a temporary lock navigation tasks. By design, when the diversion channel flow is less than 20,000 cubic meters per second, all ships can be passed from here. More than the flow by ship from the temporary ship lock. Since July 10, the third flood peak in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in 1998 by the Three Gorges dam site, at 8 p.m. on the 11th, the peak flow reached 50,000 cubic meters per second, it is understood. The diversion channel will flow down to 35,000 cubic meters per second when recovery navigable flow can not be more than temporary ship lock is running 4.5 into cubic meters per second, and thus the Three Gorges seal Airlines will last a few days.
by the no-fly impact of the Three Gorges, part of the ship was stranded in the upper reaches of the Three Gorges Dam Zigui Maoping Hong Kong, the authorities out to organize the evacuation of the passengers stranded in Hong Kong, Maoping.