Recent Chinese progress in flood management

From flood control to flood management is one of the significant milestones and inevitable trend for the adjustment of water management strategies in the rapidly developing phase of China. Flood control practices on a large scale in China after the 1998 floods indicates that we should never just follow the conventional way of flood control nor simply copy the advanced experiences from other countries to cope with the continuing aggravation of water issues appearing in rapid development. To realize the shift to "flood management", we should clarify its basic concepts, and adopt a mode of "sharing both risks and benefits" and promote the principle of "adjusting from both ends to hold moderation".