On August 28, 2022, the mobilization meeting for the construction of the Pinglu Canal was held at the construction site of the Pinglu Canal Madao Junction in Jiuzhou Town, Lingshan County, Qinzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, marking the first strategic channel for river-ocean combined transportation opened by China since the founding of New China. Construction started officially.

Pinglu Canal Project

According to reports, the Pinglu Canal is a river-sea connection project between the main stream of the Xijiang River and the Beibu Gulf. The starting point is located at the mouth of the Pingtang River in Xijin Reservoir District, Hengzhou City, Nanning. The estimated total investment is 72.7 billion yuan. The project is mainly based on shipping functions, combined with water supply, irrigation, flood control, and improvement of water ecological environment.

As an important traction project for the construction of the new western land-sea channel, the Pinglu Canal will open up a new channel with the shortest route to the sea for the vast southwest and northwest regions of China, ease the tension in the passage capacity of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, and enhance the anti-risk capability of the water transport channel.

In the future, after the project is completed, it will connect with the Hunan-Guangxi Canal, which is being studied and demonstrated, and will connect the Yangtze River, the Pearl River and the Beibu Gulf vertically, providing an important foundation for building a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and domestic and international dual circulation promoting each other. facility support.

It is reported that CCCC conducted a comprehensive and in-depth investigation and investigation on the geological landforms, natural resources, customs, and economic and social development of the mountains and rivers along the canal in the preliminary work, and learned from the comprehensive management and development model of the Yongding River Basin to study the formation of the "Pinglu Canal Development". A series of comprehensive achievements such as the “Proposal for Construction Models” have made sufficient technical, equipment and resource reserves for full participation in the construction of the canal. Editor/He Yuting