板桥水库溃坝

事件

1. 01待考证： a source that says this: Meisner and Wemheuer do not (Google Books search inside, 2026-10-09). The line was: In early August 1975, Typhoon Nina stalled over the upper reaches of the Huai River basin, dropping over 1,600 millimetres of rain within three days and quickly exceeding the total design capacities of the regional reservoir networks.

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2. 02待考证： a source that says this: Meisner and Wemheuer do not (Google Books search inside, 2026-10-09). The line was: Built during the Great Leap Forward under the politically driven doctrine of 'storing water above all', the dams had expanded reservoir capacities while drastically reducing spillways, ignoring early warnings from hydrologist Chen Xing who was purged as a rightist.

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3. 03待考证： a source that says this: Meisner and Wemheuer do not (Google Books search inside, 2026-10-09). The line was: Around 1:00 am on 8 August, the earthen dam at Banqiao breached, sending an eight-metre crest of seven hundred million cubic metres of water rushing downstream at nearly fifty kilometres per hour, annihilating entire townships in their sleep.

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4. 04文革的折腾导致基层管理混乱、水库年久失修。暴雨中通讯线路全断了，驻马店与省里的联络彻底失灵，开闸分洪与炸坝泄洪的命令一再延误，下游老百姓根本来不及逃命。出处： 冯客 Frank Dikötter, 《文化大革命：人民的历史》，第23章“逆转”.

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5. 05大水在平原上泡了几个星期退不出去，烈日暴晒下到处都是死尸，霍乱和痢疾四处蔓延。几百万灾民困在树梢、房顶和残存的土坝上缺粮断水，灾后病死饿死的人远比刚决口时淹死的人还要多。出处： 冯客 Frank Dikötter, 《文化大革命：人民的历史》，第23章“逆转”.

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6. 06待考证： a source that says this: Meisner and Wemheuer do not (Google Books search inside, 2026-10-09). The line was: The catastrophe was immediately classified as a top state secret, kept out of textbooks and public awareness for decades, while subsequent internal investigations estimated total deaths between 85,000 and 230,000.

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