Xin’an River

The westerly system is the Xin’an River, which flows from southern Anhui province, where it rises in the Huang Mountains near Shexian. This tributary flows through deep, gorgelike valleys in the rugged, hilly country of the Anhui-Zhejiang border. In the late 1950s a dam and hydroelectric project was started (completed…

…valley and the other, the Xin’an, rising in Anhui province and passing through Jiande in Zhejiang and other cities. On the latter tributary is located the large Xin’an River Dam, an important supplier of hydroelectricity for the region. The Qiantang tidal bore takes the form of a high wall of…

…metres) long built on the Xin’an River (a tributary of the Fuchun River) at Xin’anjiang, close to Jiande. This formed a reservoir about 60 miles (100 km) long and more than 6 miles (10 km) wide in places, with an area of about 225 square miles (580 square km).