Is Dongting Lake Project Real?

The Dongting Lake project is real. In view of the problems exposed by the Changjiang River flood in 1998, the State Council decided to build a flood storage and detention area with storage capacity 1000 billion cubic meters near Chenglingji. According to the principle of reciprocity between the two lakes, Dongting Lake has chosen Liangqian Lake, * * Shuangcha Lake and about 5 billion cubic meters of flood storage and detention areas on the east bank of Datong Lake for construction.

Dongting Lake, formerly known as Yunmeng, Jiujiang and Chonghu, is located on the south bank of Jingjiang River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, spanning Yueyang, Miluo, Xiangyin, Wangcheng, Yiyang, Yuanjiang, Hanshou, Changde, Tianjin, Anxiang and Nanxian counties and cities. The name of Dongting Lake began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was named after Dongting Mountain (now Junshan Mountain) in the lake. Dongting Lake receives water from Songzi, Taiping, ouchi and Diaoxian counties of the Yangtze River, connects with four small tributaries of Hunan, Zi, Yuan and Li in the south and west, and flows into the Yangtze River from Chenglingji, Yueyang City.