What is the total amount of Pinglu Canal project in Guangxi?

The total project of Pinglu Canal in Guangxi is about 400 million cubic meters.

The word "Ping" in the Pinglu Canal refers to the Pingtang River Estuary and the word "Lu" refers to the Luwujiang River, so the whole Pinglu Canal starts from the Pingtang River Estuary in Xijin Reservoir Area, Hengzhou City, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, passes through Luwu Town, Lingshan City, Qinzhou City, and enters the Beibu Gulf along the Qinjiang River, with a total length of about 135 km and an investment of 72.7 billion yuan.

According to the submitted development plan, the Pinglu Canal should be built according to the first-class inland waterway standard, with the purpose of navigating 5000-ton ships.

Under normal circumstances, the maximum navigable tonnage of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is 1.500 tons, while the navigable tonnage of Pinglu Canal is more than three times. According to the conversion that each train car can pull 60 tons of coal, it needs 84 train cars to pull 5000 tons of coal. And this, as long as a canal can do.

In March 2022, 17, the canal project was established, and the investment increased from 68 billion yuan to 72.7 billion yuan. On August 28th, the canal project, which has been brewing for nearly a hundred years, finally started.

With the opening of Pinglu Canal, the abundant fruit resources in Guangxi, medicinal materials resources in Guizhou, flower resources in Yunnan and other commodities can be exported to foreign countries at the fastest, fastest and most economically. Really take only one coat with water to support people.

At the same time, the opening of the Pinglu Canal in the future can effectively alleviate the shipping pressure at the mouth of the Pearl River Delta and promote the further development of the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone. Nanning part of FTZ is effectively combined with Qinzhou part. There will be high-tech zone manufacturing, Liu Jing Industrial Park and Li Ling Industrial Park in Guangxi Beibu Gulf ... The high-speed railway from Guiyang to Nanning will be opened soon, and many inland provinces and cities are gearing up to contribute to the development of Beibu Gulf Economic Zone.