China’s Yellow River: Taming the cradle of Chinese civilisation

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Preventing natural disasters from the Yellow River has been the goal of every Chinese ruler since ancient times, and the current Chinese government is no exception. But what makes China’s “mother river” so vulnerable to natural calamities, that it has also become known as the “Sorrow of China”? And how have past civilisations tamed the river and tapped its full potential?
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  • @SouthChinaMorningPost
    @SouthChinaMorningPost Жыл бұрын

    Read more on this in the SCMP: sc.mp/0wae

  • @EuroWarsOrg

    @EuroWarsOrg

    10 ай бұрын

    ​China has only 9% of the world's land surface, yet 18% of the worlds population! Maybe they need to contain themselves a bit, for the sake of equality eh?

  • @Sjalabais
    @Sjalabais11 ай бұрын

    SCMP videos really stick out among similar content providers by having enough visuals accessible to not need to repeat them. This was an interesting little lecture, not least, visually!

  • @albback8176
    @albback8176 Жыл бұрын

    This is a fascinating and challenging example of ecological management to balance nature in harmony with human needs. It's unfortunate how unintended results can occur, but learning is a life long practice.

  • @fullcircle4723

    @fullcircle4723

    Жыл бұрын

    Deforestation is intentional.

  • @albback8176

    @albback8176

    Жыл бұрын

    @@fullcircle4723 the consequences are not though

  • @bobbymoss6160
    @bobbymoss6160 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, the amount of water and the speed they travel at is crazy!

  • @asahel980

    @asahel980

    Жыл бұрын

    you didnt live near rivers are you?

  • @lastChang..
    @lastChang.. Жыл бұрын

    "China is a place where dreams come true." - a generation ago, Chinese people don't even have enough to eat. - today, 154 million Chinese travelled abroad for their vacations back in pre-pandemic 2019. Spending $387 billion, which was 35% of the global tourism revenue for that year

  • @googleisspyingonyou598

    @googleisspyingonyou598

    Жыл бұрын

    falun gong bots working overtime I see

  • @Hkchinese888

    @Hkchinese888

    Жыл бұрын

    Still 600 million people live in poverty.

  • @wynn3077

    @wynn3077

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@ToiChutGongWu 😂

  • @ToiChutGongFlu

    @ToiChutGongFlu

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi I'm Chinese, sorry for the covid! Can anyone tell me how to go on youtube without vpn??

  • @kevinzh5898

    @kevinzh5898

    Жыл бұрын

    You’re no human with a fake face cover

  • @normandong4479
    @normandong4479 Жыл бұрын

    China has had to manage the Yellow River for agriculture and its cities, but this needs soil specialists and plant specialists to plant much more trees and green spaces upstream to slow the silt accumulation. It takes smart planning and strategic planting of trees & grasses where root systems can hold the soil upstream to slow erosion. At the same time local officials have to balance soil protection/erosion protection with economic development. On the latter point, climate change can bring drought or flooding, so there needs to be more study & prevention of man-made problems. We hope China succeeds. ❤❤😊

  • @jimwhite1756
    @jimwhite1756 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing how you were able to showcase exclusively western experts sharing their opinions on the yellow river. I guess there are no scientists in China capable of expressing findings about their own land. SCMP wins the award for best western mouthpiece. Would love to see the day when CNN does a piece on American history and only have Chinese experts share their commentary.

  • @petervan7372

    @petervan7372

    Жыл бұрын

    Scmp is owned by Jack ma and you know who he is

  • @PG-3462

    @PG-3462

    Жыл бұрын

    Why can't you just appreciate the report? The other day I saw a documentary about Norway's North that was made by Chinese PHD students (from a Chinese university) who were simply interested by the region. I think it's great that other people are interested into other countries and aren't only centered about themselves.

  • @Otter-Destruction

    @Otter-Destruction

    Жыл бұрын

    Here's the worlds tiniest violin for your hurt insignificant feelings.

  • @realneonbluegamer

    @realneonbluegamer

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@PG-3462 they're just drama bots, ignore them

  • @wsmithe2209

    @wsmithe2209

    Жыл бұрын

    @@petervan7372 - Yeah, but most of the editors are white in scmp. Jack Ma is the owner but he doesn't run the show.

  • @shahzadafahad3412
    @shahzadafahad341210 ай бұрын

    China is the country of hard working peoples💕💗💖❤💓🇨🇳🇵🇰✌❣💞💓

  • @ihussain999
    @ihussain999 Жыл бұрын

    It’s not a yellow river. It’s just noodle soup

  • @Fightback2023
    @Fightback2023 Жыл бұрын

    China's fate China's choice. Just let the Chinese be Chinese, after all we have survived through thousands of years. Go China!

  • @Raghav_Modi
    @Raghav_Modi Жыл бұрын

    Namaskar, 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Meanwhile, we Indians treat our Holy rivers like a sewer. 👉👉Devotees take dip in toxic Yamuna water covered with White foam on first day of Chhhath Puja🙏🙏

  • @ToiChutGongFlu

    @ToiChutGongFlu

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi I'm Chinese, sorry for the covid! Can anyone tell me how to go on youtube without vpn??

  • @misterbig9025

    @misterbig9025

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ToiChutGongFlu You can go to Hong Kong or Macau

  • @akhripasta2670

    @akhripasta2670

    10 ай бұрын

    filled with Hanglo pig bots

  • @Y2KMillenniumBug
    @Y2KMillenniumBug Жыл бұрын

    Which location are we looking at. The Chinese from mainland or Chinese Cantonese Bible one?

  • @musical.theory
    @musical.theory Жыл бұрын

    0:19 it is true that it is reffered to as "Mother River" (母亲河), but so is Yangtze. Also, if you go to baidu, you will find examples of many other countries and their rivers. So I am not sure if "mother river" is an expression of gratitute (as it was kinda subliminally said in this video), maybe it just means the longes river? Any Chinese ppl here to prove/disprove?

  • @Xind0898

    @Xind0898

    10 ай бұрын

    the birthplace of Chinese civiilization is around the yellow river, thats why its regarded as the mother river. Yangtze (or we call it ChangJiang), is only incorporated in Chinese cilvilization much much later

  • @boeingpameesha9550
    @boeingpameesha955011 ай бұрын

    All the very best!

  • @manchu-qu9mw
    @manchu-qu9mw Жыл бұрын

    The river that gives livelihood also takes lives. Such is the power of water. The wise Chinese says that water can hold and float ships that weighs many tons.

  • @dennyli9339
    @dennyli9339 Жыл бұрын

    The river is now largely for irrigation purpose

  • @nuffaildaniaelle977
    @nuffaildaniaelle977 Жыл бұрын

    Indus river,Nile river and yellow river are very important

  • @runajain5773

    @runajain5773

    Жыл бұрын

    And ganges

  • @teampunk1356

    @teampunk1356

    Жыл бұрын

    @@runajain5773 Its ganga not ganges..

  • @sbslm1

    @sbslm1

    Жыл бұрын

    thames

  • @tahbongkonyak7440
    @tahbongkonyak7440 Жыл бұрын

    Whatever people say..China is doing very well on its own

  • @H4shed
    @H4shed Жыл бұрын

    levate i sottotitoli capre

  • @MICHALMALACHOVSKY
    @MICHALMALACHOVSKY Жыл бұрын

    WOW WOW WOW !!!

  • @cw4608
    @cw4608 Жыл бұрын

    It is terrifying that such a mighty river dries up and doesn’t flow to the ocean. Won’t that affect the salinity of the ocean? Can the sediment be dredged out of the river bed and put back on the farmland?

  • @simonbrown7455

    @simonbrown7455

    Жыл бұрын

    Ye its a very interesting debate. Some of the Dams in China have stopped sediment frkm reaching downstream to places like Vietnam and Laos. The sediment beung very fertile.

  • @Y2KMillenniumBug
    @Y2KMillenniumBug Жыл бұрын

    Trust me even the media also getting so close can fall on the same plate.

  • @fidahusayn8691
    @fidahusayn8691 Жыл бұрын

    Long live china, long live Chinese

  • @yokesimtan2459

    @yokesimtan2459

    Жыл бұрын

    ♥️🙏

  • @dennyli9339
    @dennyli9339 Жыл бұрын

    Managing a river is science, needed experimentation, failure and adjustment.....

  • @arnulfoesguerra4795
    @arnulfoesguerra4795 Жыл бұрын

    This analysis is not updated. Reforestation is not the priority now, with the massive destruction of trees planted to pave the way for grain planting

  • @babylov3r
    @babylov3r Жыл бұрын

    It more like mud river😂😂😂

  • @Mike-vh1ur
    @Mike-vh1ur Жыл бұрын

    Dams wont solve the flood or access water flowing prevention rather it will destroy river property etc

  • @jasonc2029AD
    @jasonc2029AD Жыл бұрын

    Yellow river 150yrs ago is totally different in 2023...i've a rare photos of Yellow River from my Great Great Grandpa Photo Archives of then Ancient China

  • @germanrocha2030

    @germanrocha2030

    Жыл бұрын

    How different was? If you can, share your pictures, would be great

  • @ginag6185
    @ginag6185 Жыл бұрын

    Incredible 😮

  • @aofeizhang8735
    @aofeizhang87353 ай бұрын

    Actually, the first Chinese government was founded for taming the yellow river

  • @Y2KMillenniumBug
    @Y2KMillenniumBug Жыл бұрын

    Aiyah, the Yangtze river North to south East. Tamer one. All the way down to Thailand and Malaysia. Your financial system needs to be reset app wall street money too much need to pause first not river water but sui(money)

  • @stephanruan1846
    @stephanruan1846 Жыл бұрын

    Political observers were beginning to be doubtful of what you reported/claimed were all truthful or just to improve your viewership. We felt that we had all been taken for a ride.😮

  • @kinhaze
    @kinhaze10 ай бұрын

    You try to tame it, it will claim you You should just live along with it and carry on

  • @Y2KMillenniumBug
    @Y2KMillenniumBug Жыл бұрын

    Ooh it's the earlier china, Cantonese one. More relevant. Run Run Shaw and Disney Hollywood down South East

  • @santoshguni6112
    @santoshguni6112 Жыл бұрын

    पानीको मात्रा कसरी माटोमा बढाउने! #subashpalekarkrishi

  • @yogasetiaone
    @yogasetiaone Жыл бұрын

    This is flood 😂

  • @ForeverEveresT
    @ForeverEveresT10 ай бұрын

    Interview some Chinese experts not those westerners who know nothing about China.

  • @monadas3850
    @monadas385011 ай бұрын

    population is not growing in China it's declining

  • @suncarus897
    @suncarus89711 ай бұрын

    When a smart baby gets a really hard toy, it takes him 5,000 years to master it. This is the history of the Chinese nation and the Yellow River.

  • @garrettmillard525
    @garrettmillard52510 ай бұрын

    4:53 wow really this footage? this is propaganda, those are not trees they are sticks

  • @jules263
    @jules263 Жыл бұрын

    Yellow 😂

  • @zeusolympus415
    @zeusolympus415 Жыл бұрын

    You control the water, you can control everything.

  • @sbslm1

    @sbslm1

    Жыл бұрын

    Immortan Joe

  • @hokuspokus11111
    @hokuspokus111113 ай бұрын

    Abdul Rahim ya salame

  • @hidetsu7249
    @hidetsu7249 Жыл бұрын

    The population is not growing, is shrinking so the water shortage won't be a problem in the future.

  • @michaelma8776

    @michaelma8776

    Жыл бұрын

    especially when more and more people are migrating to the south where have no water shortage problem. And more water are also being transferred from the south to the north.

  • @freeworld88888

    @freeworld88888

    Жыл бұрын

    bs who told the population is shrinking? china has 1.42 billions people that is not even including the people in Hong kong , macca and taiwan. the covid 19 stop chinese give birth for a few years. But chinese populations were constantly about 350m to 500m but today is 3 times of the past. How can there is water shortage? but china needs to divert there waters to other places that is all.

  • @theGalactic57

    @theGalactic57

    Жыл бұрын

    Per Capita water consumption will increase manifolds in the coming years despite shrinking population.

  • @hidetsu7249

    @hidetsu7249

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably you are right, have my son that let the weather run when brushing his teeth, pretty normal among younger generations. @@theGalactic57

  • @jacegarcia835
    @jacegarcia835 Жыл бұрын

    Why would you interview a foreigner for a yellow river what would hevknow

  • @tabsntoot
    @tabsntoot Жыл бұрын

    This is bathing water for xi

  • @guillermobeltran7811
    @guillermobeltran781110 ай бұрын

    China man are ver clever

  • @walhdamaskus2408
    @walhdamaskus2408 Жыл бұрын

    U cant forbit nature being a nature. The paradox here is human is apart of nature and still have a capability being over the nature. Human can works and at same time a capability to controll the natural resource. Thats the human nature.

  • @TheArchevil
    @TheArchevil Жыл бұрын

    Here's what ChatGPT has to say about Taiwan:"The "White Terror" in Taiwan refers to a period of political suppression and human rights abuses that occurred in Taiwan under the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) government from the late 1940s to the late 1980s. It was characterized by widespread government surveillance, arbitrary arrests, torture, imprisonment, and execution of individuals considered to be threats to the regime. The White Terror era began after the KMT government relocated to Taiwan following their defeat by the Communist Party of China in the Chinese Civil War. The government, under the leadership of President Chiang Kai-shek, sought to consolidate its power and suppress any opposition or dissent. Initially targeting suspected communist sympathizers and independence activists, the scope of repression expanded to include intellectuals, students, journalists, and anyone perceived as a potential threat to the regime. During this period, thousands of people were arrested, imprisoned, and executed, often without fair trials or due process. Martial law was imposed in 1949, and it lasted for 38 years, making it one of the longest periods of martial law in modern history. Civil liberties were severely curtailed, and censorship was pervasive. The government used surveillance, torture, and forced confessions to maintain control and instill fear among the population." In other words: supporting the current (illegal) Taiwanese government is allowing the bad guys to win. The native Taiwanese en masse vote on parties who support reunification with China, but their numbers are so small that they'll never get what they desire. Nothing to say about the racism and humilation they have endured during those times. Go to Wiki and get lost in the many articles about how the Taiwanese natives were mistreated by these invaders.

  • @rs-dp6pr

    @rs-dp6pr

    Жыл бұрын

    Only Taiwan natives were real natives that were slaughtered by the Taiwanese who immigrated 200 years ago from China.. and why don't you chatgpt Japanese rule over Taiwan? Your way of creating division among taiwanese people will be the ultimate downfall of Taiwan. Shows it's just a majority mob rule vs a functioning democracy. Same as white Americans decided to get rid of black Americans because they are a minority.. get lost and Taiwan will lose support because your kind..

  • @xcc775
    @xcc7759 ай бұрын

    P

  • @LoneRexLapis
    @LoneRexLapis Жыл бұрын

    what about china and at what cost....this is trending.

  • @cchen6522
    @cchen6522 Жыл бұрын

    古文明的起源都在河水泛滥的地方,尼罗河流域 两河流域也是如此。

  • @zsarimaxim692
    @zsarimaxim692 Жыл бұрын

    And expert tells us population decline in China is bad.

  • @misterbig9025
    @misterbig9025 Жыл бұрын

    Can China help us restore the Ganges river?

  • @darthhideousuk

    @darthhideousuk

    Жыл бұрын

    A simple solution would be to block off the source.

  • @freeworld88888
    @freeworld88888 Жыл бұрын

    every problems , science come up with an answer, that answer become the problems one day, so on. Man against nature is normal, life is temporary, everything is temporary. river is temporary. chinese lucky to have 3 big rivers, the long river, the yellow river and pearl rivers

  • @xukai921
    @xukai921 Жыл бұрын

    I heard that Austronesians are living there before

  • @ctwasua5252
    @ctwasua5252 Жыл бұрын

    China, of course have an impeccable record for environmental protection. Smile 😊😝😊😝

  • @Hkchinese888

    @Hkchinese888

    Жыл бұрын

    Still, more coal power plants to be built 😂😂

  • @upasnaghangale9027
    @upasnaghangale9027 Жыл бұрын

    तीबत भारतका हीसाहे

  • @simonchan1016

    @simonchan1016

    Жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @gost7213

    @gost7213

    10 ай бұрын

    Sik kim belongs to me

  • @deadlinefortheendtribulati4437
    @deadlinefortheendtribulati443711 ай бұрын

    Xi Jinping i can't wait to give account of using your name at my judgment and all those in power a man born in 1994 will do a better job.

  • @GokuTube19
    @GokuTube19 Жыл бұрын

    Banned china

  • @pizzapizza6512

    @pizzapizza6512

    10 ай бұрын

    well done nigre

  • @prakashd7397
    @prakashd739711 ай бұрын

    nowadays china suffering lot of floods & damage to property

  • @blackknight4996

    @blackknight4996

    10 ай бұрын

    No, actually it is less and less...unlike India

  • @akhripasta2670

    @akhripasta2670

    10 ай бұрын

    concrete

  • @ChopSuey-Dish
    @ChopSuey-Dish Жыл бұрын

    I live in China 🇨🇳. Sorry for the Covid! Everything is miserable here, but no one dares to complain. Seriously, if there is next life, I wish to be born in any other country, except China.

  • @pepelepew1227

    @pepelepew1227

    Жыл бұрын

    3 week account 😲 the other chopsuey is 3 yrs

  • @wsmithe2209

    @wsmithe2209

    Жыл бұрын

    Things are very slow where you live, uh?

  • @darsanasano4020

    @darsanasano4020

    Жыл бұрын

    If you live in Chinese how do you have access to youtube

  • @pepelepew1227

    @pepelepew1227

    Жыл бұрын

    @@darsanasano4020 you should try saving some money to travel.

  • @peterhsieh380

    @peterhsieh380

    11 ай бұрын

    Another ChopSuey Indian troll hiding their own name trolling China.

  • @v.hamilton5679
    @v.hamilton5679 Жыл бұрын

    It is spelled civilization with "z". Maybe hire some editors or at least use spelling check.

  • @CrystalWong

    @CrystalWong

    Жыл бұрын

    yours is the american spelling, genius

  • @v.hamilton5679

    @v.hamilton5679

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CrystalWong which is the ONLY correct way to spell it.

  • @deeptanshubhowmik5073

    @deeptanshubhowmik5073

    Жыл бұрын

    @@v.hamilton5679 which may not be...you brits and americans have made our work easier....we got full marks on writing either civilization or civilisation, criticise or criticize and so on lol

  • @nammodung2840
    @nammodung284011 ай бұрын

    Many pigs here

  • @blackknight4996

    @blackknight4996

    10 ай бұрын

    You found your relatives there?

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