Table 3. General characteristics, capacity–area and capacity–runoff ratios for large rivers in China.

River	Drainage area (104 km2)	Runoff (km3 yr−1)	No. of reservoirs	Reservoir capacity (km3)	Capacity/area (103 m3 km−2)	Capacity/runoff (yr)
Yangtze River	180	951.3	43,602	262 (286.3)b	146	0.28
Songhua River	84.7	116.6	5,016	103 (83)	122	0.88
Liaohe River	29.7	14.8	1,309	38 (39.3)	128	2.57
Haihe River	29.2	22.8	1,041	33 (32)	113	1.45
Yellow River	78	20.7a	2,747	65 (82.7)	83	3.14
Huaihe River	31.2	62.2	9,806	58 (62)	186	0.93
Pearl River	56.3	333.8	17,016	106 (109.6)	188	0.32
Other rivers in Southeast	25.7		6,295	56 (56.7)	218
Other rivers in Southwest	144.9		1,897	57 (42.5)	39
Other rivers in Northwest	248.9		967	16 (15.9)	6
Total	908.6		89,696	794 (810)	87

^aThe runoff of the Yellow River has reduced dramatically since the 1960s; the runoff value used here is the mean runoff from 1976 to 2008.

^bData from the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR)¹¹.