History
The valley was flooded in 1959 to create the lake for the Xin'an River Dam project.
At the foot of the Wu Shi mountain (Five Lion Mountain) lays an ancient city known as Shi Cheng (Lions City), built in Dong Han period (25 - 200), first was set up as county in 208, it was named "Lion City" because of the Five Lion Mountain that sits just behind the city. The city remains undisturbed from the surface at a depth of 26-40m, Big Blue dive operator based in Shanghai, runs weekend trips twice a month throughout the year to the city and has started to uncover parts of the lost city.
In 1994, three bandits raided a boat and set it on fire, killing all 32 passengers on board, mainly Taiwanese tourists, in a notorious event named the Qiandao Lake Incident.
In 2007, a Chinese-Italian consortium started to plan the construction of a prototype of an archimedes bridge in the lake, spanning 100 m, as a proof-of-concept for larger bridges.
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