An economic journal published on the mainland in 198l reported that between 1954 and 1978 the province of Hunan alone was subject to 14 floods that destroyed over 800,000 mu of croplands each.
一九八一年在大陸出版的「經濟研究」中統計，從一九五四到一九七八的廿四年間，單單湖南一省，淹沒八十萬畝以上農田的大水災，就有十四次。