"The Yangtze River can be divided into three parts: the upper, middle and lower reaches. The middle and lower reaches are at high-risk for flooding."
"Although Zhang Shuguang, director of the Three Gorges Corp’s Hub Management Bureau stated that the dam is sound enough to withstand “twice the mass flow rate recorded on [July 19],” the entire Yangtze River basin cannot only rely on the Three Gorges Dam as its safety is paramount.
As for a solution, China is developing ‘sponge cities,’ which as the name implies would consist of permeable water systems to prevent flooding and could replenish water supply. Different sponge city projects have been implented across at-risk cities like Sanya, Shanghai, Wuhan and others." Pity the poor residents of those cities designated to become "sponges" by the Party's apparatchiks.