Since the world's first CFRD was built in the United States in the early 1930s, there have been no reports of prestressing on CFRD panels for more than 80 years. In the 2008 Hong Kong International CFRD Experience Exchange meeting, the author proposed to apply pre-compressive stress on the reinforced concrete panel to improve the cracking resistance and reduce the amount of reinforcement, and this innovative proposal was approved by the experts. In more than three years, with the strong support of Gezhouba Group Yili Hydropower Investment Company, Xinjiang Water Resources Department Survey and Design Research Institute, Tianjin Metallurgical Zhongxingda Company and Liuzhou OVM Company, the CFRD panel test of Simutas Hydropower Station has been successful. This paper briefly introduces the dam and the application of prestress, and puts forward some suggestions on correction based on the summary of experiments.