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Water diversion plans pushed onto fast track

Four independent project entities are expected to soon be established to pave the way for full construction of the eastern and middle lines of China's ambitious south-to-north water diversion project.


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Four independent project entities are expected to soon be established to pave the way for full construction of the eastern and middle lines of China's ambitious south-to-north water diversion project.

The project was partly kicked off last December, with more sections scheduled to be built by the end of this year.

The worsening water shortage in North China due to severe droughts has forced the government to fast-track the project, a senior official said yesterday at a Beijing symposium on the project's construction and management mechanism.

Zhang Jiyao, minister of the office of the project's commission under the State Council, said: "Designated project proprietors to be established by local authorities along the two lines will take full responsibilities for fund raising, construction, operation management, loan repayment, insured value and appreciation of their projects and assets."

The proprietors will also take responsibility for the consequent obligations of their projects, particularly regional water pollution control and protection of water resources, Zhang told the meeting, which was attended by officials from Jiangsu, Hubei, Shandong, Hebei and Henan provinces as well as Beijing and Tianjin municipalities.

Zhang made it clear that "they (project entities) will be set up as modern enterprises and separated from local governmental administration."


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