What exactly is the South-to-North Water Transfer Project?

The South-to-North Water Diversion Project starts from Jiangdu Water Control Project in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and ends in the eastern part of Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, Jiaodong area and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area. The South-to-North Water Transfer Project is a strategic project in China. The conception of the project began at 1952, and the total length of the east, middle and west trunk lines of the project is 4350 kilometers.

Through the analysis and comparison of more than 50 schemes, the water transfer scheme has achieved many valuable results. The planning area of South-to-North Water Transfer Project involves a population of 438 million, and the water transfer scale is 44.8 billion cubic meters. The total length of the east, middle and west trunk lines planned by the project is 4350 kilometers. The first phase of the East and Middle Lines is 2,899 kilometers long, and the first-class supporting branch canals in six provinces and cities along the line are about 2,700 kilometers.

From 2065438 to September 2002, the relocation of migrants in Danjiangkou reservoir area of the Middle Route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project was fully completed. The South-to-North Water Transfer Project mainly solves the problem of water shortage in northern China, especially in the Huang-Huai-Hai River Basin, with a population of 438 million. * * * There are three water transfer lines: East Line, Middle Line and West Line. The three water transfer lines are connected with the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Huaihe River and the Haihe River, forming an overall layout with four horizontals and three verticals as the main body, which is conducive to realizing the rational allocation pattern of water resources in China.