China's water transfer project begins

[Keel]

"All these events were mainly initiated by the Elion Resources Group, a private Chinese company in Inner Mongolia. Since the mid-1990s, the group has been working with the regional government and locals to create a giant ecological shield in the Hobq Desert. Under the leadership of its founder Wang Wenbiao, Elion has created a desertification control model with Chinese characteristics. The Hobq Model is based on available desert resources and supported by technological innovation. Its enterprise development is driven by science and technology and its large-scale desertification control is driven by industry."

There are many heroic stories like Wang Wenbiao has done for fighting against desertification across China.

I think this is one area that will make us proud on top of the daring water diversion project in discussion. Based on what we have done hereunder the thread started by @JSCh, it has shown great encouraging signs of sucess:

Will China's Great GREEN Wall save the country from dust storms?

They are still discussing the viability of the western line of the water transfer project. Unlike the middle and east line, where terrain is relatively flat, the proposed western line cut through a lot of mountains and even worse, go through Tibet and Qinghai regions. These regions are part of the Himalayan volcano and earthquake belt and notoriously unstable. While it would really nice to get water to Xinjiang regions, it may not be viable.

I agree
The proposed project has to tackle some of the most difficult landscapes of China. But in view of the situation there in the area, we have to find a way to solve the problems

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

My respect for China increases manifold when I see these kinda infrastructure projects. We are talking of joining Ganga- Cauvery for past 40 years and we are still talking...

Congrats China..!

 

[Sanchez]

Great work! I'm so proud of my country...

 

[Ruisheng]

since it is winter now, the water volum is not huge, and the speed of water is about 1meter per second, so please wait till next summer to see the waves.



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"Meanwhile water in the western route will flow from three tributaries of the Yangtze River near the Bayankala Mountain, bringing much needed water to China’s western regions, including Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia.'

Hope we can turn these deserts and wastelands into forests and farmlands over time

We come. We seed. We farm.

 

[Keel]

We come. We seed. We farm.

We come, we plant, we afforest

 

[Ruisheng]

We come, we plant, we afforest

相互吹捧什么的最讨厌了

 

[TaiShang]

The dream of the founder of China has been finally achieved!

Eastern Route: 1,156 km long, moves 14.8 billion cubic meters of water a year, To: Tianjin region. From: Southern portion of the Yangtze River.

Central Route: 1,267 km long, moves 13 billion cubic meter of water a year. To: Tianjin, Beijing and others. From: The Danjiangkou Reservoir on Han River.

Western Route: 500 km long (noncontinuous), moves 8 billion cubic meters of water a year, From: Three tributaries of Yangtze River,(near Bayankala Mountain). To: Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia provinces.

 

[TaiShang]

South-north water diversion project starts to supply water to Beijing
2014-12-12 09:39:45 GMT2014-12-12 17:39:45(Beijing Time) China Daily

Photo taken on Nov 17, 2014 shows the heightened Danjiangkou Reservoir Dam in Central China's Hubei province, the starting point of the middle route of South-North Water Diversion Project. [Photo/Xinhua]

As the throat of the middle route of the South-North Water Diversion Project, the 4.25 km-tunnel across the Yellow River is the first water tunnel that runs through the second largest river in China. [Photo/Xinhua]

The canal runs through Jiaozuo in Central China's Henan province.[Photo/Xinhua]

This section of canal is built along the Beijing-Shijiazhuang railway. [Photo/Xinhua]

China is one step closer to completing its South-North Water Diversion Project as the first stage of the middle route, a 1,277-kilometer waterway, started to supply water to Beijing on Friday, reported china.cnr.cn.

After decades of planning and construction, clear water from Danjiangkou Reservoir in Central China's Hubei province flow through Henan province and Hebei province and cross the Yellow River on the journey leading to Beijing and Tianjin.

The first stage of the middle route, started in 2003, aims to pump almost 9.5 billion cubic meters of water - one sixth the volume of Yellow River - every year to the country's parched north, including more than 20 major cities.

Beijing is among the northern cities plagued by water shortage. The capital city has per capita water resources of less then 100 cubic meters, far below the 500 cubic meters which indicates acute water shortage by international standard and even nowhere near the 387 cubic meters for Israel, a country known for its scarce water resources.

 

[Keel]

Some graphics and more pix:

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[55100864]

When we say 'begins', it means completed!

 

[DoTell]

This question my sound stupid, but I have to ask: Does the water transfer system provide relief for flooding problem in the south? You know flood is a big problem in southern China. I wonder the designers of the water transfer system considered building something that'd guide the excessive water into the conduits which would feed the ever thirsty north?

 

[Keel]

Friday marks an important day for China’s South-North water transfer project, as water will begin to flow from central China’s Danjiangkou reservoir to Beijing.

When we say 'begins', it means completed!

"begins' = water " begins to flow" from south to north = the transfer of water has started

This question my sound stupid, but I have to ask: Does the water transfer system provide relief for flooding problem in the south? You know flood is a big problem in southern China. I wonder the designers of the water transfer system considered building something that'd guide the excessive water into the conduits which would feed the ever thirsty north?

That is exactly the idea for the construction of this massive project

 

[Ruisheng]

This question my sound stupid, but I have to ask: Does the water transfer system provide relief for flooding problem in the south? You know flood is a big problem in southern China. I wonder the designers of the water transfer system considered building something that'd guide the excessive water into the conduits which would feed the ever thirsty north?

It's a system. And a system means it contains not only the artificial rivers but also lakes, reservoirs, dams, etc. And in the pic you see it's far from full. I guess it has the capacity to transfer at least 5 times of the volume.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Impressive. China is the only country in history that could pull off projects this big.

Great Wall, Grand Canal, and now this.

Great Wall was kind of useless, but the Grand Canal was the economic lifeline of China that allowed it to have the largest population. This is the second Grand Canal!

 

[Ruisheng]

Impressive. China is the only country in history that could pull off projects this big.

Great Wall, Grand Canal, and now this.

Great Wall was kind of useless, but the Grand Canal was the economic lifeline of China that allowed it to have the largest population. This is the second Grand Canal!

One mistake about Great Wall: It's not useless.
1 It's a fast alarming system. With numerous of Towers we can send messages by making fire and heavy fog on the top of them. By recording the order of the fire, for example we have five towers and two fired as 10010, both approximate number (we use binary file to code so here 10010 means 18 thousand let's say) and location (First tower fired at Beijing) of the enemy can be sent to the border guards in minutes.
2 It cannot stop the invaders but it can effectively prevent them from bringing the goods they plundered from us back to their lair.
We Chinese, not French.