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Shilongba Hydropower Station 石龙坝水电站Shílóngbà Shuǐdiànzhàn
National heritage site · Kunming, Yunnan
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Kunming
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Shilongba Hydropower Station
Mainland China's first hydropower station, built in 1910–1912 on the Tanglang River, the only outlet of Dian Lake, with German Siemens generators and Austrian Voith turbines; it is still generating today. The old powerhouse keeps a 240-kilowatt Voith unit that still works, and the China Hydropower Museum, set up on the site in 2008, tells its history. A pond in the grounds fills a crater left by a Japanese air raid in 1940.
How to get to Shilongba Hydropower Station
In Xishan District, about 40 km south-west of central Kunming by road, roughly an hour's drive.
Nearby
- Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 20 km
Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake - Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 30 km
Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways - Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖 50 km
Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes
Also within 20 km: Yulong Bay 玉龙湾 (under 10 km), Anning Confucian Temple 安宁文庙 (under 10 km), Haikou Chuanzi Sluice 海口川字闸 (10 km), Caoxi Temple, Anning 曹溪寺 (10 km), Wenquan Cliff Inscriptions, Anning 温泉摩崖石刻群 (10 km), Wang Renqiu Stele 王仁求碑 (20 km).
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