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Yongding River

The Yongding River (Chinese: ?????????; pinyin: Y??ngd??ng H??; Wade???Giles: Yungting Ho) is a river in northern China. It is one of the main tributaries in the Hai River system and is the largest river to flow through Beijing. In recent years, the Beijing segment of the river has dried up due to environmental issues. The Beijing municipal government has invested 16 billion yuan in an effort to replace the riverbed with parkland or smaller bodies of water. Etymology The river was originally called Wuding River (Chinese: ?????????; pinyin: W??d??ng H??), literally "unfixed river", because its flow was irregular. When the Kangxi Emperor reigned, he enacted various hydraulic engineering projects in the region to rein in the seasonal flooding. After those projects, the river was renamed...

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