Construction site of Meijiang Irrigation District. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
People's Daily Online, Beijing, February 13 (Ouyang Yijia) During the Spring Festival in 2024, the low temperature, rain and snow weather will continue in Ningdu, Jiangxi, and the scene in the Meijiang Irrigation District will be full of people and machinery, and the "heat" and "speed" of construction will not decrease at all. In order to speed up the construction process of the project, rush to complete the construction of important nodes before the flood season, 28 kilometers before the main trunk canal in March to take the lead in achieving the goal of water and serving the spring irrigation, the Meijiang irrigation area project actively promotes the Spring Festival period without stopping work and production, and continues to invest in the construction of more than 260 people, more than 60 sets of large-scale equipment, the whole line is in full swing, seize the day and seize the construction scene, it is expected that the Spring Festival holiday will open up the two tunnels of Gushang and Jianggongling, and complete the main project of Guxia inverted siphon, and complete the project investment of more than 12 million yuan.
Up to now, 52 working faces have been opened for the backbone projects of the Meijiang Irrigation District Project, 7 tunnels have been started and tunnels have been entered, and the Huaxian Aqueduct, the largest control project of the Tuanjie Main Trunk Canal, has been completed ahead of schedule; The field project followed the construction rhythm of the backbone project, and 4 irrigation pieces were rolled out, and a total of 16 working faces were constructed. The project has completed a total investment of 136.6 billion yuan, accounting for 32% of the total investment of the project.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Water Resources, after the completion of the project, it will improve the agricultural production and irrigation conditions of Ningdu County by 580,000 mu and ensure the water supply of 790,000 urban and rural residents in the county, which will play an extremely important role in further consolidating food security, consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation, and boosting rural revitalization.
It is reported that the Meijiang Irrigation District Project in Jiangxi Province is a key dispatching project in Jiangxi Province, with a total investment of 422.9 billion yuan, mainly with the Tuanjie Reservoir as the leader, the cross-strait water transmission and distribution project as the framework, the Meijiang River water system as the bloodline, and the small and medium-sized reservoirs, Shuipi, and pumping stations as the nodes of the water resources optimization allocation network.