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Xi Focus: China s water diversion project promotes green development
Xinhua
14 May 2021, 17:30 GMT+10
ZHENGZHOU, May 14 (Xinhua) Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Thursday inspected the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in the city of Nanyang in central China s Henan Province. On Thursday afternoon, he went to the county of Xichuan, where he inspected the Taocha Canal Head, Danjiangkou Reservoir and village of Zouzhuang. Xi listened to the introductions of the construction, management and operation of the middle route of the water diversion project and the ecological conservation of the water source region. When the water started to gush north through the middle route in December 2014, Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, described the South-to-North Water Diversion Project as an important strategic infrastructure to optimize water resources, boost sustainable economic and social de