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An input of 16 billion yuan for Golden Waterway Project along Yangtze River

Starting from this year China will, in 17 years, put in 16 billion yuan into repairing the main watercourse of the Yangtze River in a bid to renovate the river's navigation channels.


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Starting from this year China will, in 17 years, put in 16 billion yuan into repairing the main watercourse of the Yangtze River in a bid to renovate the river's navigation channels.

It is a reparation work, the largest in scale ever since the founding of the PRC, said an official at Changjiang (Yangtze River) Waterway Bureau. It means that the Golden Waterway of the Yangtze River is stepping into the golden period for its development. He also said: "by 2020, the Yangtze is going to become a modern navigation watercourse which is safe, expedite, convenient and efficient.

It is learned that the Ministry of Communications has just approved the Changjiang Main Waterway Development Plan and decided to conduct large-scale comprehensive reparation work along the Yangtze navigation channel. Starting from Shuifu port in Yunnan province and extending to the Yangtze estuary in Shanghai it stretches a total of 2,838 kilometers. The total investment is well over 16 billion-yuan of which 12 billion is to be invested directly in repairing the navigation passage.

According to the plan the related Yangtze waterway departments will, step by step, have more than 30 shallows and shoals systematically repaired along the Yangtze River where they impede navigation. It includes the building of structures such as T-dams (to narrow the waters for deepening the watercourses), the clearing, retrieving and dredging of the watercourse, renewal of the establishment such as waterway measures, navigation marks and signals as well as the building of some wharfs, stations, bank revetments and shoal protections etc.

With the comprehensive reparation the navigation scale of the Yangtze waterway will be raised. The part between Yunnan Shuifu and Chongqing will be built into a third class waterway, which can pass fleets formed by 1,000-ton barges all the year round. The part between Chongqing and Wuhai will be put into a first class waterway for passing through barges of 2,000 and 3.500 tons. The part below Wuhan can pass 20,000-ton - 40,000-ton fleet formed by 2,000-ton - 5,000-ton barges. The part between Tongling and Nanjing can pass 5,000-ton sea vessels all the year round. And the part below Nanjing can be upgraded to pass sea-crafts above 50,000 tons all the year round.

By People's Daily Online


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