The Jiudianxia Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Tao River

Tao River

Tao River is a right tributary of China's Yellow River. It starts in Xiqing Mountains near the Gansu-Qinghai border, flows eastward across Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and then northward more or less along the border between Dingxi Prefecture-level City in the east and Gannan and Linxia...

 in Jonê County

Jonê County

Jonê County is an administrative district in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China. It is one of 58 counties of Gansu. It is part of the Gannan Prefecture. Its postal code is 747600. Its area is 4,954 km2, and its population is over 100,000 people...

, Gansu Province, China. The dam was constructed to conserve water and produce hydroelectricity. The 136.5 m (448 ft) tall dam withholds a reservoir of 943000000 cubic metre and its power station has an installed capacity of 300 MW. Construction on the dam began in 2005 and it was complete in 2008.