According to flood control laws, when basin-wide flooding causes reservoirs to exceed their limits, water may be temporarily channeled to so-called 'flood storage areas' – including low-lying populated land.
BEIJING, China – Nearly 1 million people in China’s northern Hebei province were relocated after record rains forced authorities to channel water from swollen rivers to some populated areas for storage, sparking anger online over the homes sacrificed to save Beijing.
On July 31, Hebei province opened seven of its 13 designated flood storage areas, including two in the city of Zhuozhou in Baoding south of Beijing and north of Xiongan, a zone President Xi Jinping aims to develop into an economic powerhouse serving Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin. “I’d like to know, among all the people living in flood storage areas across the country, how many of them know they are living in such areas?” one angry netizen asked.
“This is also for the sake of protecting the overall situation. You have to sacrifice one part for the sake of the bigger whole.”
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