What does Pinglu Canal mean?

Pinglu Canal is an important waterway in ancient China.

I. Introduction

Located in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, it is the backbone project of the new land and sea passage in the west. The project starts from the Pingtang River mouth of Xijin Reservoir Area in Hengzhou City, Nanning City, and enters the Beibu Gulf along the Qinjiang River via Luwu Town, Lingshan City, Qinzhou City. The total length is134.2km, and the designed annual one-way capacity is 89 million tons. According to the first-class inland waterway standard, it can be navigable to 5000-ton ships.

Second, the value significance

Pinglu Canal is the first canal in China after the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal for over 0/000 years. Focusing on the development of shipping, giving consideration to water supply, irrigation, flood control and improving the water ecological environment. After the completion of the canal, it will fundamentally alleviate the shipping pressure in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River, and ease the shipping pressure in the Yangtze River through the combined transport of iron and water.

Third, ecological protection.

The Pinglu Canal Project will aim at "smooth river, clear water, fragrant fish, green shore, beautiful scenery and low carbon" and strive to become a world-class high-level protected ecological canal and green canal. In principle, a reserved area of 1km will be reserved along the Pinglu Canal for the construction of ecological corridors, the protection of biodiversity along the route and the implementation of protective development.

The strategic significance of Pinglu Canal;

I. Promoting the development of Guangxi and Southwest China

After the canal is completed and opened to traffic, it will directly open the shortest, most economical and most convenient sea passage between Guangxi inland and southwest and northwest, which can effectively solve the problem of smooth navigation of Xijiang River and greatly improve the transportation capacity of the new land and sea passage in the west. It will accelerate the transformation of resource advantages along the new land and sea passage in the west to economic development advantages.

The second is to form a strong radiation force to the central and western regions.

After the Pinglu Canal is completed, more production factors and port-facing industries will gather in the canal and coastal ports, eventually forming a strong radiation force to the central and western regions, which will highlight the strategic support role of Beibu Gulf Port to the central and western regions.

Third, form a new highland for the development of the western region

"One River flows east" has formed a traditional economic map. After the Pinglu Canal is completed, there will be a sea, a port and an industry in Guangxi. The rivers flowing southward will break the original pattern, form a new economic map and form a new development highland in the western region.