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Article: China Benefits from Yellow River Harnessing Efforts
- Article from:
- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 23, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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China's Sorrow - the still to be tamed Yellow River - has
provided
a flood of economic efficiency for the country over the past half
century.
Experts have revealed that combined economic efficiency efforts
along the river have saved China 1,260 billion yuan thanks to its
painstaking efforts to harness the mighty waterway, the world's most
silted river.
A report released by the Yellow River Water Conservation
Committee, under the Ministry of Water Resources, spelled out the
impact of water harnessing projects along the 5,464 kilometer long
river.
According to the report over the past 50 years, China has invested
120 billion yuan in harnessing the Yellow River, and has built a
large number of ...