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22 <j;~~~~~ 0024fJ3 :-~ ',;-: .:~. : -::tX:i.~ . WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS and water transport. Each has a million kilowatt capacity-about the Boulder Dam range on the Colorado-and both are scheduled to produce power in 1961. As the tempo steps up 20 hydro stations are now in construction in China and 10 more large ones have been announced to start and be completed by 1962. 7,000 EXPERTS TO WORK ON YANGTZE On November 23, 1957, Reuters (British new agency) launched a dispatch out of Peiping that the People's Republic at long last was going to tackle the greatest river of them all, the Yangtze, and had assembled 7,000 experts "looking 100 years into the future and 2,000 years in the past to do the task." In the basin of this 3,420-milestream that falls about 10,000 feet from its origin to the sea, lives one-tenth of all humanity in this world. It has stupendous possibilities, barely scratched, for multiple-purpose development, and the Chinese believe it the third best power producer anywhere, and capable of yielding 40 percent of all hydropower in .their country. So do occidental engineers who have long dreamed of doing the job, which will be a long one. . . -. Because their basic data was doubtful last year, the Chinese re- figured their theoretical national potential in. waterpower and came up with the figure of 540 million kilowatts capacity. And everyone of those kilowatts is what they proclaim they are going to realize just as fast as )?ossible as a matter of national policy to secure the People's RepublIc survival. FLOOD CONTROL IN RED CHINA Flood control represents China's greatest river. development en- deavor. Through recorded history it always has, it does today, and presumably, of necessity, will for the coming century. Under the current Communist regime all officials of the country invariably recite accomplislunents since the People's Republic took over, emphasize that flood control must continue as No.1 priority in all multiple-puryose river development, and that the violence and scope of this effort must increase. In the same period the United States is reducing its flood control endeavor. There appears no challenge that in effort China's flood control pro- gram ranges far beyond that of the United States, but in relative con- sideration mathematical measurements are mostly meaningless and, therefore, not offered as responsive to committee requests. China's flood problem is so vast that most of the 20 million Chinese working -on theIr rivers are specifically engaged in trying to control floods, and the denominator of their achievements usually used are millions of 'Chinese not drowned in recent floods, compared to those drowned in like areas in earlier floods, or the elevation limits to which flood -crests were held last year in large cities as a result of works built compared with earlier higher crests. . Possibly the most complete flood control job accomplished to date is by the Huai River. This comparatively small stream has been made a proving ground for the multiple-purpose basinwide approach to river control as distinguished from localized effort of every Chinese .o.ynasty for 4,000 years, much of which was locally beneficial. ~:;:;)'2:;~~~ .."....- -" - ~- ~.-- ....-.. :..;::-:. ::. -. .~..' ." .' - ~ .