ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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It was the site of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989.
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Flooding has caused massive human and property loss over time.
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It has re-routed to force people to follow the Communist government.
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The river became dry after construction of the Three Gorges Dam.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Huang He or the The Yellow River is also called “Sorrow of China". This is because before damming, it was extremely prone to flooding, and had caused millions of deaths. Between 608 BCE and 1938 CE, the Yellow River changed course 26 times, and flooded over 1, 500 times.
Detailed explanation-2: -The river is often called “China’s sorrow” because millions of people have been killed by flooding. The worst flood disaster in world history occurred in August, 1931 along the Huang He River in China and killed an estimated 3.7 million people.
Detailed explanation-3: -There are two major rivers in China-the Huang He or Yellow River and the Yangtze River. The Yellow River is known as the Sorrow of China, because it changed its course and caused frequent floods.
Detailed explanation-4: -The worst flood in human history occurred in 1887, when the Yellow River overran the dikes in Henan Province. That flood covered 50, 000 square miles. It inundated eleven large towns and hundreds of villages. Nine hundred thousand people died, and two million were left homeless.
Detailed explanation-5: -The extensive silt deposition in the river’s lower reaches across the North China Plain and the expansive stretches of flat land surrounding it have always made the area extremely prone to flooding.