2020-12-22 04:35:56 GMT2020-12-22 12:35:56(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JINAN, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) Looking back, it seems to Zhang Bo that his father spent his whole life building houses. 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.
For farmers like Zhang, the Yellow River, dubbed the Mother River of China, has long nourished the land, but it has also brought floods that have damaged their houses.
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