In despite of the warning from the specialists a long time ago , Chinese people just awoke that "the wolf really came" till the flooding arrived. 1998 become a year of the flooding disaster. In the flood season, bed weather and heavy raining caused severe flood on the area of Yangzi river. The water level exceeded the highest level in the history. The main embankments of Jiayu, Jiujiang burst, it caused heavy loss of live and property. At same time, all alarm came from north as Liao river, Songhua river, Nun river , from south as Zhu river, Min river. The flux and peak of the flood exceeded the highest record in the history.
In this case, the extraordinary flood of the century excited the fighting volition of all Chinese. The president and the citizen, the army and government,million of soldiers and large mass formed a solid dam, painted many majesty and splendid pictures of "fighting a flood and rescuing disaster area"