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Prehistoric Yellow River Flooding Secrets Unraveled by the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in the Zhengzhou Section



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XU Hailiang (徐海亮)

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DOI:10.17265/2159-550X/2026.02.001

Scholar of the Yellow River’s Natural History and Culture

In the spring of 2011, the transfer project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Canal in the Zhengzhou section was in full swing. Earth excavation along the main canal in the Xingyang section and the Zhengzhou urban section progressed rapidly. What people might not have anticipated was that this colossal 21st-century water conservancy project would open for us a profound archive of environmental and hydrological history of the Yellow River. It has unveiled the secrets of ancient Yellow River distributaries once traversing Greater Zhengzhou, flowing through the western and southern parts of present-day Zhengzhou.

XU Hailiang. (2025). Prehistoric Yellow River Flooding Secrets Unraveled by the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in the Zhengzhou Section. History Research, February 2026, Vol. 8, No. 2, 65-79.