The grand award ceremony just concluded and ushered in the year 1999.
This year marks the return of Macao, the conclusion of the first phase of the Linghai Port project, and the last year of this century!
The New Year should bring new hopes; all the city leaders are busy with economic activities, except for one vice mayor who continues overseeing the Yangtze River levee project left unfinished last year.
The flood of '98 didn't cause any breaches across the province, no fatalities, and they even managed to protect the few Jiangxin islands on the Binjiang section, thanks largely to the massive investment in repairing the Jianghai Flood Control earlier. This year, there's a push to finalize unfinished levee sections quickly; only by making them impregnable can future floods be safely avoided.
But these matters have little to do with Han Yu.
