In the twelfth lunar month 19 (Gengxu), January 15, 1971, the Aswan Dam in Egypt inauguration.


located in the south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo "acute Beach", the world's second largest river in the east coast of the Nile in Aswan.
Aswan Dam began construction in 1960 and be completed at the end of 1970, inauguration on January 15, 1971, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the then Soviet General Secretary Kosygin personally unveiled. The dam located six kilometers south of the city of Aswan Yamaguchi Strip, is composed of three parts of the main dam, spillway and power plant. Main dam length of 3600 meters, the dam foundation and 980 meters wide, crest width of 40 meters, the dam height of 111 meters, the construction materials used in approximately 43 million cubic meters, a volume equivalent to 17 times in the western suburbs of Great Pyramid of Khufu, Cairo. The dam is a set of flood control, irrigation, navigation, power generation is one of the comprehensive utilization of engineering.
water conservancy chaired by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. He nationalized the Suez Canal to raise funds in the case of Anglo-American refused to provide loans, designed by the Soviet Union, pre-engineering, and a power station equipment. The completion of the dam played a huge role in Egypt's social development, over five hundred kilometers south of river formed Lake Nasser Egypt rational use of water to provide protection to supply half of the electricity demand in Egypt, and to prevent the Nile each year flooding. (History. Cn)