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	Lishui River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lishui River (also known as Li River, Chinese language: 澧水，pinyin: lǐ-shǔi) is a river in Hunan province of China, one of the Yangtze River's four largest tributaries in the province.
		Lishui has three origination places, the norh, the middle and the south.
		The middle one, origination from the east side of the Badagongshan Mountain in Sangzhi and the south place, origination from Longjiazhai of Yongshun County in the Tujia and Miao Autonomous profecture of Xiangxi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lishui_River (147 words)

	Xiang River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Xiang River (also as Xiangjiang River, or simply as Xiangjiang, Chinese: 湘江 or "湘水", pinyin: Xiāng Jiāng, Xiāng Shǔi; Wade-Giles: "hsiāng chiāng" or "hsiāng shuǐ"), in older transliterations as the Siang River or Hsiang River, is a river in southern China.
		People say the Xiang and the Lijiang River share the same origination because of connecting the two rivers of the Lingqu Canal that it is located in Xing'an county, and 70 per centage of water in Lingqu flows in the Xiang and 30 percent flows in the Lijiang.
		The Zheng River (蒸水) converges with the Xiang in Chengbei District (城北區), Hengyang
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xiang_river (354 words)

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		The Lishui River and Dongting Lake area have had serious floods in 33 out of the 44 years since 1949, which is a serious detriment to economic growth in northern Hunan.
		One of the four largest rivers in Hunan, the Lishui River has had the worst floods of this century among medium size rivers in China, and it is a primary source of widespread flooding in the low-lying area west of Dongting Lake.
		Lishui HIydro and Power Corporation Strengthening 3.21 Under the project, LHPC would be assisted and strengthened for construction and operation of Jiangya Dam and for overall management of the Lishui River Basin ($2.4 million), including environmental management.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1995/04/03/000009265_3961214184319/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt (14409 words)

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		The scoured sediment is moved to and filled in the river reach between Chenglingji, the outlet of the Dongting Lake to the Changjiang River, and Wuhan City.
		River channels are expanding as much as several tens of kilometers, and waterlogged area were seen anywhere in the basin.
		The principle of flood control for the Nenjiang River is to intercept flood in upper basin, divert flood in middle basin and drainage flood in downstream river course.
	dbx.cr.chiba-u.jp /gdes/sid/china98flood/manuscript.html (3834 words)

	Zijiang River Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		the Zijiang River (also as Zishui River or Zi River; S.Chinese: 资江 or 资水; T.Chinese: 資江 or 資水; pinyin: zī jiāng; Wade-Giles: tsī chiāng) is one of the four largest rivers in Hunan province of China, also one of the main tributaries of the Yangtze River.
		Originating from the norh side of Yuechengling Mountains in Ziyuan of Guangxi, The South source, Daxishui River flows through Xinning, Shaoyang.
		The four largest rivers in Hunan are: the Xiang River, the Yuanjiang River, the Zijiang River and the Lishui River
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/z/zi/zijiang_river.html (180 words)

	Li River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Li River (also known as Lishui River, 澧水，pinyin: lǐ-shǔi) is a river in Hunan province of China, one of the Yangtze River's four largest tributaries in the province.
		Li River (also known as Lijiang River, 漓江，pinyin: lí-jiāng) is a river originating in the Mao'er Mountains in Xing'an county in Guangxi, China, running past the cities of Guilin and Yangshuo.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Li_River (128 words)

	China Travel Service - China Travel Guide
		The population continued to climb until by the 19th century Hunan was overcrowded and prone to peasant uprisings.
		The Taiping rebellion which began to the south in Guangxi Province in 1850 spread into Hunan and then further eastward along the Yangzi River valley, but ultimately it was a Hunanese army under Zeng Guofan which marched to Nanjing and put down the uprising in 1864.
		Xiangjiang River, Zishui River, Yuanjiang River and Lishui River have a total waterway length of 2,200 km in Hunan, with nearly 5,000 tributaries.
	www.landingchina.com /city_guide/Hunan_Province.htm (2338 words)

	Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Provinces along the three major rivers (Changjiang, Huanghe, and Zhujiang) are preparing and urging all citizens to be ready to pitch in with flood prevention efforts.
		The Changjiang River water level at Wuhan City has recently been rising at a rate of about 0.2 meter every day and is approaching flood danger levels.
		In the early part of June, heavy rain fell constantly in the lower and middle reaches of the Changjiang River, as well as in southwestern, northwestern and southern areas of the country.
	www.clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2002/6/30/23620p.html (505 words)

	Freshwater Lakes
		The area is subject to dramatic changes in water levels, shrinking to a tenth of this size in winter.
		The Poyang Lake is renowned for being a "land of rice and fish", and endowed with a vast beautiful lake and exquisite mountains.
		The Dongting Lake is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, extends between Hunan and Hubei provinces and covers more than 3,000 square kilometers, with an elevation of 34.5 meters and a depth of 30.8 meters.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21739.htm (463 words)

	WWF China
		Changsha, Hunan province - To alleviate rising flood waters from the Huai River and two tributaries of Dongting Lake (the Lishui River and Yuanjiang River), the Chinese government for the first time is making use of retention polders to absorb flood waters.
		Along the Lishui River, five small polders, which were evacuated as part of China’s wetland restoration programme after 1998, have been opened to reduce water levels.
		Instead of rebuilding higher dykes as in the past, the new policy mandated that the rice paddies be returned to lake.
	www.wwf.com.cn /english/loca.php?loca=185 (338 words)

	Lishui, I Love You
		"Lishui" in Chinese means beautiful water, beautiful river.
		The dim streetlights looked so romantic to me but I knew in a few days I would be thousands of miles away from the city and the friends I had just met.
		Rivers of music-of poems-drifting towards the sea-and my heart.
	homepage.mac.com /jleelinda/Personal26.html (218 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lishui is the bright pearl that is inlaid at the headstream of the Qinhuai River.
		Lishui, first built in the 11th year of the Sui Dynasty (A.D.591) named Zhongshan, with a total area of 1,067 square meters, is located in southern Nanjing, Jiangsu, the Yangtze River Delta.
		As the southern gate of Nanjing, Lishui has 410,000 people, 8 towns, 2 state-owned farming and forestry gardens and one provincial-level economic development zone.
	www.lsdz.cn /doce/page/fq/index.htm (176 words)

	Origin of rice agriculture on the Middle and lower Yangtze River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Carbonized husk and grain are in sherds in Lijiagang in 1989 and in 8,000 year-old Bashidang in 1993, with dense paddy rice in ashpits with burnt or rotten straw and husk.
		The W part and old river bank in Bashidang's 1995 2nd excavation yielded hundreds of husked and carbonized grain screened from soil, with rice material directly from the stratum.
		On the E part of mid-lower Yangtze River, selective breeding and domestication rice stages occur, but cultivated rice was absent at the birth stage in Pengtoushan culture on the middle Yangtze.
	www.admissions.carleton.ca /~bgordon/Rice/papers/ZHNGZ98.htm (2157 words)

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		The second station is located on 1270 m altitude of the Jiuxiao River with installed capacity 1×2 MW and the intake flow of 1.0 m3/s, providing a rated water head of 250 m; 3.
		The third station with installed capacity 2×3.2 MW is located on 1005 m altitude of the Jiuxiao River with intake flow of 1.94 m3/s, and a rated water head of 441 m.
		The project contributes to the preservation of the Lishui watersheds, which implies conservation of the biodiversity in areas recognized as “significant for the world”.
	cdm.ccchina.gov.cn /english/UpFile/File258.DOC (1515 words)

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		2.2 Lishai river basin where Jiangya reservoir subproject is situated is in the famous Wufeng-Hefeng storm zone of the midstream region of the Yangtze basin.
		On the basis of river basin planniig in combination with the harnessing of the nation's territory, both the nation' s and the local' s objectives are cooperatively met and water resorces ecan be rationally allocated among the different regions.
		It is a new multipurpose water resources project, located on the middle reach of Loushui river in Cili county, northwest of Hunan province, with prior functions of flood control as well as power generation, irrigation, navigation and water aupp ly.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/1994/07/01/000009265_3970702135553/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt (5572 words)

	Dongting Lake,Yueyang Travel Guides-China City Tours Guide
		This is because the lake acts as a flood basin for the Yangtze River.
		Four streams including the Xiangjiang River, the Zishui River, the Yuanjiang River, and the Lishui River, all flow into Dongting Lake, and the lake is sometimes known as 'the holder of the four streams'.
		Where West Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River meet, there is a place called San Jiang Kou Entrance, where one can see the Xiangjiang River surging to the north and the Yangtze River rolling to the east.
	www.achinatravel.com /china-travel/china-hunan-yueyang-dongting-lake.asp (955 words)

	DEVELOPMENT GATEWAY
		The one exception was the Lishui River, which witnessed a higher water level, according to sources with the provincial flood-control headquarters of Hunan.
		The disaster-hit areas were immediately sterilized and rubbish and mud were cleared away after the flood receded, said Jian, noting that incidence of acute infectious disease declined in August compared with the same month last year.
		In Hubei Province in the central and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the water level in the capital Wuhan reached 27.61 meters yesterday, 0.31 meters above the warning level.
	www.chinagate.com.cn /english/2786.htm (619 words)

	Lishui River - China-related Topics LI-LL - China-Related Topics
		Lishui River (also known as Li River, Chinese language: 澧水，pinyin: lǐ-shǔi) is a river in Hunan province of China, one of the Yangtze River's four largest Tributarytributaries in the province.
		The middle one, origination from the east side of the Badagongshan Mountain in Sangzhi and the south place, origination from Longjiazhai of Yongshun County in Xiangxithe Tujia and Miao Autonomous profecture of Xiangxi.
		The three originations join the main river in Nancha of Sangzhi countySangzhi, then runs east.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Lishui_River (213 words)

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		The general headquarters of Liren Wood Industry Group is located by the Oujiang River of Lishui in Zhejiang.
		Liren group is chosen as the leading enterprise of agricultural byproducts processing, the one excellententerprise in Zhejiang Province, and the sincere demonstration enterprise of Zhejiang Province in 2002.
		The highest quality, consumers first is our management aims of the enterprise; arduous undertaking, improving ourselves is the fine tradition of our enterprise; pioneering invention and keeping forgoing ahead actively is the soul of the enterprising spirit.
	www.cnliren.com /order/Groupintro.asp (362 words)

	PRC: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project - Resettlement Plans - ADB.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The subproject involves construction of 1.22 km of new dikes along the Yuangjiang River in Chenxi County.
		26.2 km riverway dredging and block-clearing of Lianshui and Sunshui Rivers
		The subproject involves the construction of 15.5 km of new dikes along the Zijiang and Nanshui Rivers in two urban districts of Wugang Municipality.
	www.adb.org /Documents/Resettlement_Plans/PRC/Hunan-Flood-Management (912 words)

	Yangtze! Yangtze! - Chapter Five - Views & Suggestions on the Assessment Report of the Three Gorges Project
		Sedimentation: The Yangtze River is the fourth-largest river in the world and carries substantial volumes of sediment.
		The big tributaries, such as the Yalong, the Minjiang, the Dadu, the Jialing, the Wujiang, the Yuanshui, the Xiangjiang, the Hanjiang and the Ganjiang rivers, have annual water volume equal to or greater than that of the Yellow, the Huaihe, and the Haihe rivers together.
		In the initial stage of the formation of those companies, financial support might be granted by the state so as to help them become enterprises that ultimately bear responsibility for profit and loss in their operations.
	www.threegorgesprobe.org /pi/documents/three_gorges/Yangtze/ch05.html (3312 words)

	China: Floods [OCHA-01: 07-Jul-99]
		Water exceeded the level set for flood-warning in Xinjiang River in Jiangxi Province; Yuanshui River and Lishui River in Hunan Province; Wu Lake and Chao Lake in Anhui Province and Tai Lake in Zhejiang Province.
		The rainfall exceeded 100 millimeters in 56 counties causing an increase in the water level in some big rivers, lakes and reservoirs.
		In Jiangxi Province, the sudden rise of the water level in Xinjian, Cangjiang, Meijiang and Gingjiang River caused some human losses and heavy economic damages in Jingdezhen, Shangrao, Jiujiang, Yingtan, Yishun and Fuzhou.
	iys.cidi.org /disaster/99b/0003.html (742 words)

	Death toll rises as deluge continues
		Floods along the Huaihe River Valley have killed 16 people and caused direct economic losses of 18.17 billion yuan (US$2.19 billion), a report released yesterday said.
		Of the 575,000 Anhui inhabitants evacuated, 348,700 have taken refuge with their relatives and friends, 118,600 are living under makeshift cover, 76,500 have found accommodation in public housing, while the rest are staying in specially erected tents.
		Meanwhile, the Lishui River, a major branch of the Yangtze River, which runs through Hunan Province, has also been hit by severe floods.
	www2.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-07/11/content_244573.htm (264 words)

	Cinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The surface area of the reservoir is 3000 acre, and the controlled river valley area is 15515 square km., sharing 83.49% of LiShui river valley.
		The whole dam is composed of the part of soil dam, flood discharging sluice gate with 20 holes, fish mouth gravity dam, overflow dam and non-overflow dam, etc..
		The controlled river level of the dam is ¨42 meters in width, which was designed ¡°vapour-15¡± as its loaded grade.
	www.ccpithn.com /ein/pj_e/Pje14_40.htm (353 words)

	Lishui to build “Qinhuai Source Scenic Spot” with RMB100m special fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was learned from Lishui County in Nanjing yesterday that this county was planning to invest RMB100m capital to build a beautiful “Qinhuai Source Scenic Spot” in Donglu Hill by co-attracting investment.
		Running water comes down to the hillside, passes Zhongshan Lake, Lishui Belt River and Sha River and eventually flows into Qinhuai River.
		Thus, Donglu Hill is also known as the source of centuries-old Qinhuai River and attracts numerous visitors by its reputation.
	www.yangtse.com /gb/content/2003-06/30/content_68340.htm (253 words)

	Station Information - Li River
		Li River (also known as Lishui River, 澧水，pinyin: lǐ-shǔi) is a river in Hunan province of China, one of the Yangtze river's four largest tributaries in the province.
		Li River (also known as Lijiang River, 漓江，pinyin: lí-jiāng) is a river originating in the Mao'er Mountains in Xing'an county in Guangxi, China.
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/l/li/li_river_1.html (104 words)

	China: Floods OCHA-05: 30-Jul-98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since 17 July, heavy rain has fallen in most areas of Hubei, the northern part of Jiangxi and Lishui area in Hunan.
		On 20 July, heavy rainfall caused the water level of the Lishui river to rise greatly, causing flooding in some cities including Changde.
		The rainfall in Leping, Boyang, Dexing, and Duchang was over 200 mm, which caused the water level in the Leanjiang and Changjiang (Yangtze) rivers to rise one meter above the warning level.
	iys.cidi.org /disaster/98b/0023.html (430 words)

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