Is there a flood storage and detention area in Shanghai?
Yes According to the Chinese government website. Shanghai governments at all levels should follow the principle of "both storing and discharging, focusing on discharging", adhere to the principle of "giving consideration to rivers and lakes", "giving consideration to the left and right banks, and coordinating the upper, middle and lower reaches", further improve the overall layout of flood control in the Yangtze River basin, and gradually build a flood control system with dikes as the mainstay, the Three Gorges Project as the backbone, the main tributary reservoirs, flood storage and detention areas and river regulation cooperating with each other, leveling embankments, returning farmland to lakes and combining soil and water conservation. Comprehensively improve the flood control capacity of the Yangtze River basin. Baoshan District and Pudong New Area in Shanghai are fortified with 12 wind according to the once-in-200-year high tide level, and the rest seawalls are fortified with 100 high tide level plus1/wind. The goal of flood detention project is to build a relatively complete flood control and disaster reduction system by 2025.