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Badong County ( simplified Chinese: 巴东 县; traditional Chinese: 巴東 縣; pinyin: Bādōng Xiàn; lit. 'East of (state of) Ba ') is a county located in western Hubei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Chongqing municipality to the west. It is the northernmost county-level division under the administration of Enshi Prefecture.
May 1, 2021 · To this end, the events associated with county seat relocations in Badong, a typical county in the Three Gorges Reservoir region, China, are studied from an engineering geologist's perspective. Over its history, the county seat was relocated multiple times, with the first relocation traced back to the Song dynasty (960–1279 CE) and the last ...
- Wenping Gong, C. Hsein Juang, Janusz Wasowski
- 2021
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Feb 26, 2021 · The sequence of events that led to the relocation of the county seat of Badong as a result of landslides in the Three Gorges area. Figure from Gong et al. (2021) . The original site of the county town of Bandong, Jiuxianping, was located on the northern bank of the Yangtze River.
Gong et al. reported that the first relocation of the Badong County seat can be traced back to the Song dynasty (960−1279 CE) due to an ancient landslide event, while the last two relocations were linked to the Three Gorges Dam project since the early 1980s. Due to the rising water level following the impoundment of the Gezhou Dam in 1982 ...
Jan 13, 2004 · Archeologists can still outline the ancient Badong county seat. There was a group of official buildings of over 1,600 square meters. ... (China.org.cn by Chen Lin and Daragh Moller, January 13 ...
Oct 9, 2019 · In Enshi Autonomous Prefecture of Tujia and Miao Nationalities, Hubei Province, there is a county called Badong. Located in the middle section of the Yangtze River between Wu Gorge and Xiling Gorge, and 40 miles from the Three Gorges Dam, Badong is a bright pearl inlay along the corridor of the splendid Yangtze River.
Feb 21, 2014 · Abstract. The Huangtupo landslide is one of the largest in the Three Gorges region, China. The county-seat town of Badong, located on the south shore between the Xiling and Wu gorges of the Yangtze River, was moved to this unstable slope prior to the construction of the Three Gorges Project, since the new Three Gorges reservoir completely submerged the location of the old city.
