The INSANE Chinese Engineering to Navigate Above the Mountains

Imagine ships not just navigating rivers but actually sailing hundreds of feet above mountains.

Welcome to the megadams ship lifts—incredible engineering marvels that make it possible for vessels to cross huge height differences and glide through the skies of China's mountainous terrain.

In this video, we explore some of the highest, largest, and most innovative ship lifts across the world—including the record-breaking Goupitan and Three Gorges lifts.

From understanding the challenges posed by massive dams to uncovering how giant counterweight systems make lifting thousands of tons seem almost effortless, we’ll break down the remarkable feats of engineering that make these "ships in the sky" possible.

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[YsqaCk_user]

Makes the Hoover Dam look like child's play. Incredible.

[Darkmatter]

Great explanation of the advantages of this over locks. Great video. The Chinese never cease to amaze

[phuthanhle]

great, it's hard to find Chinese documentary videos, but with this video I got it all. there are several channels about great construction of the world, now I have one more channel about more new things, thank you.

[atanacioluna]

This summer, we went on that elevator onto the 3 Gorges Dam lake; it is fantastic.

[tigading]

Just imagine how long it would take for US or UK to develop something like this using their advanced infrastructure technologies

[PhilipTan-iu]

Wow, China is definitely the greatest builder of infrastructure for the 21st Century.

[hooligan_labelle]

I seen boat lifts in the UK but I never saw anything like this. Amazing

[gumpyoldbugger]

The Goupitan shiplift is not only an amazing bit of engineering, but it is also an economic miricle, they got it done for under USD800 Million and not the multi-Billions such a project would cost in the US, Canada, the UK or anywhere else in the industrial

[emeliealegonero]

This is insane, how they able built the massive engineering project damn China

[FerdausAlAmin]

I am amazed but still fail to believe that these marvel engineering exist & function.

[Dogsnark]

I had never been aware of such things as ship lifts. Wow - it blows my mind that such things are possible!

[bonanap]

the first locks and canal 灵渠（ling qu）were built by Emporer Qinshihuang， 2300 years ago to conquer Guangdong, Guangxi。

[pomodorino]

Thanks for including data in proper measurement units.
Really informative video!

[Talus-Gort]

Most of the weight that is lifted is water, not ship.

[supersymmetry]

This also explains why the Chinese adopted gravity batteries to storage renewable energy, as the fundamental technology has been proven and could be very reliable.

[misterbig]

We don't have such technology in India

[pagan-]

China great big powerful country. Very excellence mountains electricity technologies.

[justyuyun]

not that many people know how heavy an elephant is ....

[PakistanIcecream]

Not only are China's infrastructure projects mesmerizing, they're also extremely cheap.

[binder]

only chinese ingunity can accomplish thay ❤❤❤❤❤