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The South-to-North Water Diversion Project is an epoch-making project which has attracted the world’s attention. To solve the water shortage problem of Hanjiang, the Yangtze-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project emerged. Located in the hinterland of Jing-Chu, this project is a matching project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project. The starting point of the Yangtze-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project is the intake of the Jingzhou section of Yangtze River, from which the water of Yangtze River will stream in and finally into Hanjiang through the canal of the project. This project’s completion has an extraordinary significance not only to cities along the Jianghan Canal, but also to the entire Yangtze River Economic Belt and Hanjiang Ecological Economic Belt.

The Yangtze-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project is going to work in September. By that time, today’s largest canal will deliver water of Yangtze River to Hanjiang District and the North continuously.

The canal will extend for about 67.23 kilometers, 27.05 kilometers of which is in Jingzhou. The four projects of the Yangtze-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project in Jingzhou are: the Gate Pivot Project of Longzhou Dike, the Canal Project, the Dongjing River Replenishment Project, and the Jingzhou(Front) Control Center. Meanwhile, in Jingzhou District, there are also compensation projects such as Land Requisition and Demolition, Water System Recovery, Cultural Relic Protection, Land Reclamation, Environment Protection and City Construction.

According to information, the canal of Yangtze-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project is designed to carry 350m3/s, and it can reach 500m3/s maximum. The nation approved that Jingzhou can set sluice division gates in Gangnanqu and Miaohu separately. Each will receive 10m3/s to compensate the local in order to improve the water environment of those areas. Liu Mingchun, the deputy director as well as the press secretary of Jingzhou Environmental Protection Bureau, indicated that the Yangtze-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project will offer Jingzhou a water inflow of 10m3/s, and it will also lead to an improvement towards the moat and other water systems.