China News Service, Qinzhou, August 28 (Yang, Chen, Huang Lingyan) At 9 am on August 28, the backbone project of the new western land-sea channel - the mobilization meeting for the construction of the Pinglu Canal was held at the Madao Junction in Jiuzhou Town, Lingshan County, Qinzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The convening marks that the Pinglu Canal has officially entered the stage of construction.
Li Xiaopeng, Minister of Transportation, said in his speech at the conference that the construction of the Pinglu Canal can be described as the right time and place.
The Pinglu Canal is a networking project that optimizes and improves the national water transport network and accelerates the construction of a national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network. Practical actions for development are of great strategic significance to the economic and social development of Guangxi and Southwest China.
Liu Ning, Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, delivered a speech at the conference.
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Liu Ning, Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Autonomous Region, said that the Pinglu Canal is the backbone of the new land-sea passage in the west, and is of strategic significance for promoting the development of Guangxi and Southwest China.
After the canal is completed and opened to navigation, it will directly open up the shortest, most economical and most convenient access to the sea in the inland Guangxi and the southwest and northwest regions of my country; it will change the current situation that Guangxi is close to the sea but no rivers are navigable to the sea, and make the capital Nanning a coastal city. Form the urban agglomeration pattern of Nanning, Beihai, Qinzhou and Fangchenggang, promote the construction of an international gateway port in the Beibu Gulf, and promote the development of the seaward economy; it will open up a new sea-entry channel for the Xijiang Golden Waterway, and form a river-sea circulation channel to effectively connect the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. ; It will promote Guangxi and the southwest region to continue to deepen economic and trade cooperation with ASEAN and the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership" (RCEP) countries, accelerate the integration into the construction of a China-ASEAN community of shared future, and better serve the construction of a new development pattern.
The construction of the Pinglu Canal has merit in contemporary times and benefits in the future.
According to Chen Hongqi, Secretary of the Party Group of the Department of Transportation of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Pinglu Canal is a river-sea connection project between the main stream of the Xijiang River and the Beibu Gulf. Beibu Gulf, with a total length of about 135 kilometers, will shorten the voyage to the sea in the middle and upper reaches of the Xijiang River by about 560 kilometers after completion.
The construction content of the Pinglu Canal project mainly includes waterway engineering, shipping hub engineering, cross-river facility engineering along the line and supporting engineering.
The waterway grade is grade I inland river, the estimated total investment of the project is 72.73 billion yuan, and the construction period is 54 months.
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