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UTILIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANCIENT COURSE OF THE YELLOW RIVER

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  • 1. Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101;
    2. Huaihe Commitee, Ministry of Water conservancy

Received date: 1996-12-01

  Online published: 1997-01-24

Abstract

The ancient Yellow River once took over the course of the Huaihe River in historic period. It was formed a closed dune by the impact of the sediment of ancient Yellow River. The region of the ancient Yellow River is a developing area with conves land forms, temperate climate, sandy soil. Sufficient sunshine, dense population and lack of water resource. As a potential agriculture, the ancient course of the Yellow River has many conditions of green foods production. Exploitation of sufficent land resources and labour force is the fundament of economic development in this region.

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Zhang Yifeng, Ning Yuan . UTILIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANCIENT COURSE OF THE YELLOW RIVER[J]. PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY, 1997 , 16(1) : 37 -43 . DOI: 10.11820/dlkxjz.1997.01.007

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