In what month did the South-to-North Water Transfer Project in western Xinjiang start in 2022?

On February 6, 2022, the first project of South-to-North Water Transfer Project was to divert water from the Yangtze River to the Han River. It is planned to start construction within this year, and the preparatory work for construction is accelerating.

The implementation of "water transfer project" is the follow-up water source of the second phase of the middle line project determined in the master plan of South-to-North Water Transfer Project. As the first start-up project of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, the water transfer project is of great significance. The project plans to dig an artificial canal from the main stream of the Yangtze River to "replenish water" for the Hanjiang River, its largest tributary. According to the demonstration of water transfer demand, the annual water transfer is about 4 billion cubic meters.