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...life full circle. Starting in 1972, when she was a 30-year-old peasant living on a commune, Hu spent years hauling sacks of earth to reclaim land as Chairman Mao had ordered. A pumping station worked day and night to lift water from her fields over a dike and into Dongting Lake. But the dike ruptured in 1996 and swept away Hu's earthen house. Her family rebuilt it in brick, which they thought would withstand anything. Then the flood that hit two years later took half of the house away again. "I dreamed of moving higher...
...finally at peace. The government paid $2,000 to her family to dismantle what was left of their home and rebuild it a few hundred meters away?beyond where the water could reach. The authorities then shut the pumping station and left the dike to rot. The wetland she had once labored to destroy has returned to water; where her old house once stood, her son has floated a huge cage to raise fish. Migratory birds, such as rare swans and spoonbills, have returned to the area. WWF lent Hu enough money to buy a sow, which will give birth...
...policy to work, the locals have to cooperate as Hu did. Some refuse. They pocket the government's money, but leave the pumps running and continue planting in the flood plain. When the government breaches a dike, villagers sometimes repair it so they can continue sowing. "These lands are only half restored," says Yu Xiubo of the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Sciences. But the program is still new. "It takes time," says Jim Harkness, China director for WWF, "for people to lose their nervousness at giving up rice farming." China may have helped create the flood problem that plagues...