China's floodplain farmers build new lives in town
China DailyThe new houses built for residents living at the riverside plain of the Yellow River at Jiucheng town of Juancheng county, Heze city of Shandong province. "Every summer, my father would worry that our roof would leak and the flood would hit the village at night," said Zhang, Party chief of Caolou village, which sits next to the Yellow River, in Guide subdistrict in Jinan, capital of East China's Shandong province. Data from the Yellow River conservancy authorities show that the river's floodplain in Shandong has suffered 48 floods since 1950, affecting 12,300 villages and approximately 6.65 million residents. In November 2019, residents of 1,116 households from six villages in Dongkou town of Juancheng, including Liu, left their homes in the floodplain and moved to the relocation site -- Yellow River Community.