About four years ago Dr. Gilbert White visited China and sowed the
seeds of this project through conversations with Drs. Huang and
Gong of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Mr. Long of the Yellow
River Conservancy Commission. After some additional rounds of
communications by letter, the plan for a workshop evolved and Drs.
Wolman and Brush visited with Dr. Sabadell of the Nat_ional Science
Foundation to begin the initial planning. In March 1987 Dr. Brush
visited China and the details were worked out for the October 1987
workshop. At the outset it was recognized that the 10 American
scientists and engineers ltad very Ii ttle knowledge of the Yellow
River and none had ever seen it. Therefore, it became important
that field trips be scheduled before the workshop to better set the
stage for fruitful discussions. It was also acknowledged that the
American participants could not present papers about the Yellow
River per se so their offerings reflected their general knowledge
of rivers using other rivers as examples. On the other hand the
Chinese participants were all well into the difficult problems of
harnessing the Yellow River and made their presentations
accordingly. Despite these differences the subject matter was the
unifying thread and cross communication was excellent.
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