Creating a Beautiful Tomorrow

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The Yellow River, with small amount of water and large amount of silts, has various problems. This is the result of the Yellow River’s self evolvement, but theproblem lies more on human being’s irrational development and exploitation. In the past, the Yellow River not only brought infinite disasters to the Chinese people, but also nourished this growing child. The ancestors of the Chinese people on the one hand asked for nutrition from the Yellow River and on the other hand fought against the floods of the Yellow River.

In the 2lst century, with the more and more rapid development of the society, the increase of population and the higher frequency of various economic activities, people’s demand for production and living materials will also be larger and larger.

The Yellow River is facing a completely new situation. With the modern technology, people can face the floods of the Yellow River more at leisure now; it can no longe bring us severe damage. On the contrary, after gaining the initiative, the mankind will have more and more influence on the YellowRiver.

Regulating the Yellow River will be a long-standing process and there will still be many difficulties. In spite of that, we have already made great achievements.

However, we should also realize that with the improvement of people’s understandingand the progress of technology, what lies between mankind and the nature should notbe the relation of “man’s determination can conquer nature”, but be in harmony with each other and realize sustainable development. With the development of modern technology and precious experience accumulated for thousands of years, the Chinese people has full confidence in regulating the Yellow River and have already made or is making outstanding achievements.

She comes from the spring on the snow mountain in the Tibetan Plateau and flows eastward along the mountains, valleys, hills and plains; sometimes she is billowing and sometimes rippling; she flows through the Loess Plateau and carries large amount of sand which silts up the river courses in the lower reaches; she surges forward under the restrictions of levees and reservoirs, however she also often overruns freely out of the river course; she comes all the way to enter the sea, however her river mouth changes frequently. She is the Yellow River, the river that attracts both love and hate. The Yellow River has long been praised and cursed repeatedly by the people living in the Yellow River Basin, praise because of her abundant resources, plenty of water and convenient watercourses, and curse because of her damaging floods, changeable river courses and depositing silts.

“The Yellow River, you are the cradle of the Chinese people. Five thousand years’ ancient civilization originated from you…”A song of Eulogy of sings out the affection the Chinese people hold to the Yellow River. Every time when this song is sung, each Chinese will indulge himself/herself in the infinite reverie towardsthe Yellow River. People call the Yellow River as “Mother River”.”Mother”, what a divine name!

The ancient people, who have lived on the vast riental land for generations and generations, uses this warm and affectionate words to praise the great river which has nourished them for thousands of years.

Being the birthplace of the Chinese civilization and the artery that hold together the Chinese people, the Yellow River is the symbol of the Chinese ethos and emotions, and the spiritual totem of the Chinese people. The 5,000-year civilization is much more colorful because of the nourishment of the Yellow River, and the wealth the great river brings to the people.

What will the Yellow River be like tomorrow? Will there be floods again? Will it contribute more to the cultural and social development of its basin area? Although the answers are unsure, we are sure for one point “Tomorrow will be better!”