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The Jishixia Dam is a concrete face rock-fill embankment dam on the Yellow River in Qinghai Province China. It is 101 m (331 ft) tall and downstream from the Gongboxia Dam. The purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and flood control. The dam supports a power station with 3 x 340 MW Francis turbines for a total installed capacity of 1020 MW. Construction on the dam began in 2005 and the river was diverted in March 2007.