The Liyuan Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Jinsha River on the border of Yulong County and Shangri-La County, Yunnan Province, China.

Construction on the river diversion for the dam began in 2008.

[1][2] It began to impound its reservoir in November 2014 and on December 28, 2014 the first generator was commissioned.

[5] The 155 m (509 ft) dam withholds a reservoir of 727,000,000 m3 (589,388 acre⋅ft), of which 209,000,000 m3 (169,439 acre⋅ft) is active or "useful" storage.

The catchment area for the reservoir in the upstream basin is 220,000 km2 (84,942 sq mi) while the reservoir surface area is 14.73 km2 (6 sq mi).