The Huai River basin, lying between the Yellow River and. the Yangtze, was once a great agricultural land, but owing to. the fact that the natural dower course was ited up by the Yellow River, and its maim course of Mood escape way is" now insufficient to carry off the flood waters and lacks proper con trol, floods and droughts constantly great suffering. The National Government, seeing its importance "and. urgent need, organised the Huai River Commi Sion in 1929 directly" under its control
Huai, asia whether it should run in looking for an outlet. for pinion were widely diferent
to. the sen or to the" Yangtze. Ater" careful" surveying and. a thorough investigation" of the question, the Commission decided that the flood waters of the Huai should bey conducted into. the Yangtze River within safety limit 20 a5 fo make no appreciable effect the' later. In futore a direct route tothe. sea will be. provided The main purposes of the regulation of Huai River system. are flood control, and the improvement navigation and irrigation. The need of water in. irrigating land fo increase its "productive "power fand the need of transportation are {ast a portant as, Rood. contra With this paint of view, projects were designed and. formally approved by the National Government April 1931. Owing to the ti limit, the scheme of providing a flood' channel to the sea was not ludod. Latter it was formally approved by the National Government in October, 1931. so extensive that it has to be execut~ Thi neering work is Hpigatlon and navigation works 000, and of providing a new flood channel to the Sea $3 (000,000, a grand total of $85,000, After' the completion of the primary works, the land which is be relieved from floods is 60,000,- 000" mow, Land) which is to reclaimed' totals 1,500,000 mow, and that which isto be well irrigated with sufficient water is 40,000,000 mow. The navigating ite will run from th anigtze {the west, covering navigable distance of 1,000 kilometres. With the money collected from the benefits resulted from the first stage of development, the future works in the second and third stages can be carried out without [any financial difficulties.
After the formal approval of the projects by the Jernment, the engineering works should "have started long ago but unfortunately the work was held up through lack' of fund. Now the Commission has decided to start the most. important works with the funds available, The fexeavation work of Changfu Ho was started in December last as is the first division of the flood channel.
to the sea, and the principal feeder of, water to ' the tae fo a tion," purposes, More than 12,000 workers are doing the excavation work daily, and. it will be com pleted in the middle of June. After that, the Commissi to. build
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