Hongze Lake (Hung-tse Lake) also known as Hung-tse Hu or Hongze Hu. China's fourth largest freshwater lake. Huaihe River in Jiangsu Province in the west. Originally a small shallow lakes, ancient Fu Ling Lake, later called the Leaky Cauldron Han Tong, Sui Pu said Hongze Tang (618~907) name beginning Hongze Lake. 1128 Henan Huang migration through Surabaya taken in the following Huaiyin Huaihe river downstream into the sea, Huaihe lose Entering Ocean, east of Xuyi water retention, the original small lake expanded to Hongze Lake. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties lake depends levee as a barrier to form a "hanging lake." Now the normal water level of Hongze Lake 12.5 meters, an area of ​​2,069 square kilometers, the deepest 5.5 meters. Year flood or flood water level is high enough to 15.5 meters, the area expanded to 3,500 square kilometers. In recent years, reinforcing the levee, flood control standards to 16 meters. The main three rivers spilled into the lake via Gaoyou Lake, Shaobo Lake and then through the canal into the inside, into the Yangtze River to camp three rivers, is Rujiangshuidao. Old poor drainage, levee in disrepair, serious flooding. After 1949, the new large-scale Sanhe, renovation Rujiangshuidao, reinforced levee. In 1952 the construction of the east Gaoliangjian general irrigation canal, 168 kilometers long, to irrigate the plains Lixiahe also serves as drainage purposes. The lake is also a two Sluice Dam Project Central by Yangzhuang rivers (or new Huaihe) into the sea. From 1958 to 1960, and providing additional Huai Shuhe, cited by the Hongze Lake Water Control Yangzhuang northward to Shuyang into Xinyi. There are currently Hongze lake this 4 way, has both flood, irrigation, navigation, aquaculture and benefit. Lakes coast appeared annually icing, shore ice thickness 0.03~0.05 meters. When the January 31, 1969 Strong cold wave hit the whole frozen lake 12 days after thawing, it is not seen in decades.
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