The total water resources of the Yellow River is less than 7% of that of the Yangtze River.

The total water resources of the Yellow River is less than 7% of that of the Yangtze River, and the per capita possession is only 27% of the national average.

Related content expansion:

The Yellow River basin plays a very important role in China's economic and social development and ecological security. The Yellow River originates from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and flows through 9 provinces, with a total length of 5,464 kilometers. It is the second longest river in China after the Yangtze River. At the end of 20 18, the total population of the provinces in the yellow river basin was 420 million, accounting for 30.3% of the whole country. The regional GDP is 23.9 trillion yuan, accounting for 26.5% of the whole country.

For thousands of years, the surging Yellow River and the Yangtze River have nurtured the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization. In the 5,000-year history of civilization in China, the Yellow River Basin has been the national political, economic and cultural center for more than 3,000 years, which has nurtured Hehuang culture, Heluo culture, Guanzhong culture and Qilu culture, and distributed in Zhengzhou, Xi 'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng and other ancient capitals.

The Yellow River Basin is an important ecological barrier in China and an ecological corridor connecting the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain. It has several national parks such as Sanjiangyuan, Qilian Mountain and national key ecological function area. The Yellow River flows through the loess plateau soil erosion area and five desert sands, and there are lakes and wetlands such as Dongping Lake and Wuliangsuhai on both sides of the river, and the wetlands in the estuary delta are diverse. The natural landscape of the Yellow River Basin is magnificent and beautiful.