Nanjing National Government, The Huai River Career (1927-1937)

Huai River is one of the four great rivers in our country, which is also one of the ancient Jiang, Huai ,He, Ji , that they are the four rivers flowing into sea alone. Huai Rive is one of our country's important population and economic areas.On this basin, river and lake are gathering, ferry crossing and canal interlocking, resources are abundant, and agriculture is developed. Since the Yellow River had invaded and ocupided the lower course of the Huai River, the Huai River had lost the pass way of entering the sea, thus made the basin of Huai River became the area with frequent flood and the people in there had bitter deeply. Huai River had been got renovations by successive dynasties, which made little effect because of the limitation of history. Real science beginning of dredging the Huai River was from the national government of Nanjing. Huai River dredging committee was established in 1929, Jiang Jieshi was selected as chairperson. Systematic plan of dredging the Huai River was made later, and Huai River project was put in practice in succession. Thereafter, dredging the Huai River really became one national undertaking and one offer systematic cause of planning. Nanjing national government dredging the Huai River cause also had an initiative position in the history of our country's water conservancy, except leaving some water conservancy works and water control theory or principle, which were suitable for inheriting to harness for later age.This text leads the formulation of the plan-making of dredging Huai River, the establishment of the dredging the Huai River committee, the fund raising of dredging the Huai River , the implementation of the dredging the Huai River project and the land relation in course of implementing dredging the Huai River project , aims to investigate dredging the Huai River cause of this period of Nanjing national government. On one hand, this text make a overall combing of dredging the Huai River cause in period of the ten years national construction of the Republic of China, which can make us have pieces of overall understanding to it and promote the understanding about the constructing achievement of the national government of...