On the Strategy of Harnessing the Yellow River

Abstract

The Problem of the Yellow River Control—Proposed Plans to Harness the River.

• 1. To reinforce the soil conservation works on the tributaries in the middle reaches,

• 2. To build the Taohuayu Reservoir mainly for flood control,

• 3. To build three large reservoirs on the main stream of the middle reaches,

• 4. To provide a floodway in the lower reaches,

• 5. To provide settling basins along the river for silt deposition,

• 6. To develop many diversion channels to release the water and silt,

• 7. To convey 10 billion cu.m of clear water annually for sluicing the river channel, and

• 8. To improve the river mouth delta.