China News Service, Quanzhou, March 13th (Wu Guanbiao, Lin Yingquan) This year marks the 5th anniversary of the official water supply project from Quanzhou, Fujian to Kinmen.
On the 13th, the Jinji Barrage, an important node of the project, welcomed the first batch of visitors from Taiwan compatriots this year. More than 100 Taiwan compatriots visited the site to learn about the water supply to Jinmen in an all-round way.
On August 5, 2018, Quanzhou, Fujian Province officially opened water to the Kinmen Water Supply Project, and the vision of "a family on both sides of the strait drinking water from the same river" became a reality.
So far, the project has supplied nearly 26 million tons of water to Kinmen.
During the visit, the Taiwan compatriots walked and watched all the way, and visited the Quanzhou Water Conservancy Culture Exhibition Hall and the river dam.
"Kinmen is a small island, and its water mainly depends on pumping groundwater, and it suffers from water shortage all year round." Li Zengqin, a veteran teacher in Kinmen, said that Quanzhou's water supply project to Kinmen has a profound vision, which has solved the problem of Kinmen's water shortage, and the people of Kinmen Be grateful for that.
Taiwan compatriots visit Quanzhou Water Conservancy Culture Exhibition Hall.
Photo by Wu Guanbiao
In the exhibition hall, Wang Zaizai, the former speaker of the Kinmen County Council, who is nearly 80 years old, thinks about the past. "When I was young, Kinmen often prayed to the gods for rain due to lack of water. It was very difficult for people."
Water conservancy is related to people's livelihood. It took more than 20 years for the Quanzhou-to-Kinmen water supply project to be realized.
As one of the witnesses and witnesses, he knows that there are countless hardships and twists, and how many people worked hard to communicate, just for the people of Kinmen to drink clean and high-quality fresh water.
In addition to meeting the water needs of the folks in Kinmen, the "one-work, multi-effect" water supply project from Quanzhou, Fujian to Kinmen has also effectively alleviated the problem of groundwater salinization in Kinmen, improved the water quality of Kinmen's Tianpu Reservoir and Taihu Reservoir, and greatly reduced Kinmen's water production costs , effectively protecting the groundwater resources and ecological environment of Kinmen.
The water supply from Quanzhou, Fujian Province to the Kinmen area comes from the Jinjiang River Basin. The water is diverted from the Jinji Barrage Sluice to the Longhu Reservoir, pumped by the Longhu Pumping Station to the Weitou sea point, and then transported to Kinmen through a submarine pipeline.
On February 20 this year, the Kinmen Water Supply Project officially started construction.
The total investment of the project is 3.1 billion yuan. After completion, it will provide Kinmen with a more reliable, stable and safer source of water.
"The mainland's economic development and engineering construction are very rapid. Every time I come, I can see new things, which can be described as changing with each passing day." Wang Zaisheng is full of expectations for the promotion of cross-strait communication. "As long as the two sides work together, it will definitely be achieved." ( over)