金湖县地处淮河下游,三面环湖,低洼水网圩区占全县总面积的77％,境内沟河纵横、密布。金湖的经济社会发展史,从一定意义上说,也是一部同水旱灾害进行长期艰苦奋斗的历史,从往年的统计和“九五”规划的数据看,每年河道清淤和圩堤加固土方都在600万立方米以上,施工任务十分繁重,群众每年冬春季节都要离家外出两个月时间投入于水利建设施工。 Jinhu County is located in the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, surrounded by lakes, low-lying water polder area accounts for 77% of the total area of ​​the county, the territory of vertical and horizontal ditch, clouds. In a certain sense, Jinhu’s history of economic and social development is also a history of long-term and arduous struggle with floods and droughts. According to the statistics of previous years and the data of the Ninth Five-year Plan, annual river dredging and levee reinforcement Earthworks are more than 6 million cubic meters, the construction task is very heavy, the masses every winter and spring have to leave home for two months time invested in water conservancy construction.