But a sponge city does the opposite ... of his ideas following high-profile flooding disasters in Beijing and Wuhan in recent years. It paid off. In 2015, following President Xi Jinping's ...

Becoming a sponge city doesn't just conserve water and prevent ... Other cities that are becoming "spongier" include Wuhan, ...

This simultaneously reduces floods and increases the city water supply. The sponge cities concept was ... flooding problems in China – including Wuhan, where urbanization had erased all but ...

For more than two months, the city of Wuhan, China, was sealed off from the outside world. Flights in and out were canceled. Train and bus routes were suspended. Highway entrances were blocked.

The three towns, separated by the Yangtze and Hanshui rivers,a re linked by bridges, and because these municipalities are so closely connected by waterways, Wuhan is also called the "city on rivers." ...

Once tourists feel safe, they will return in big numbers. Wuhan, the much-maligned city in central China that was ground zero for the Covid-19 outbreak late last year, was the most-visited Chinese ...

Launched in 2015, the Sponge City Initiative invests in projects that aim to soak up floodwater. The projects are being built in 30 cities, including Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xiamen. By 2020 ...

The virus, which is marked by fevers and pneumonia-like symptoms, originated in Wuhan, an 11-million-person city in China's Hubei province. On Wednesday, local disease-control authorities in Wuhan ...

Zhu Zhenhua, an official with the Wuhan Sports Bureau, told the Changjiang Daily that tennis has long been a key sport for the city, with youth training programs available at nearly all tennis ...

The three towns, separated by the Yangtze and Hanshui rivers,a re linked by bridges, and because these municipalities are so closely connected by waterways, Wuhan is also called the “city on ...