Yellow River Museum Travel Guide

The Yellow River Museum, located at Zhengzhou City in Henan Province, is a museum of science and technology with the harnessing and development of the Yellow River as the special theme.The museum, covering an area of 1,200 square meters, briefs in a systematic way the general natural situations, the historic disasters, and the situations of harness and development of the Yellow River with pictures, videotapes, charts, engineering models, objects and samples, 500-odd exhibits in total.

The part of harnessing and development consists of three topics: Prevention of Flood, Water-and-Soil Conservation, and Utilization and Protection of Water Resources. This part briefs the Yellow River floods and harnessing plans through the ages, the flood prevention engineering of the Yellow River, the Three-Gorges Key Water Control Project, the soil erosion of the loses plateau and the silt of the Yellow River, the water and soil conservation and its effects, the water quality and the status of water resources of the Yellow River, and the development of the water conservancy and hydraulic power of the Yellow River Valley.