Ideas for a Chinese Agriculture Improvement Proyect

Excerpt from the brief of the year 1984:
“On the other hand, as the spring floods of the Yangtze were contained, many flooded, lacustrine lands would be exposed, ready for cultivation, so that the territory that should be flooded in the Han Valley would be more than compensated.
If it were possible to bring the waters of the Yangtze to the Great Plain, the spring harvest could be helped by irrigation during the sowing and harvesting seasons, and the harvest would be improved and secured durin...