THE GREAT WALL, MARK Ⅱ ENGINEERING CHINA'S WATER LIFELINE

摘要

Revered and criticised in equal measure, Mao Zedong -otherwise known as Chairman Mao and the founding father of modern China, could be a called, among many things, a visionary. It was in 1952 when Mao realised his country faced a major stumbling block: the North is responsible for the majority of industrial and agricultural activity, yet lacks the much needed water that lies in the south. As a result, the contrast between the arid North, the cradle of Chinese civilisation, and the water-abundant South has induced many waves of migration over the last three millennia.