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Water diversion project

SHENYANG: In a few years, the central area of Liaoning Province, northeast China, will receive an additional 1.8 billion cubic metres of water annually for local people and for agricultural and industrial production. Construction of an 85.3-km tunnel, said to be the longest in the world, is proceeding smoothly and is expected to be completed at the end of 2008. It will cost 5.2 billion yuan (about $650 millions). Approximately 10 million persons will benefit from the project, which starts at the Huanren Manchu autonomous county in eastern Liaoning and ends at Xinbin Manchu autonomous county in the west. The tunnel, with a diameter of eight metres, runs past more than 50 mountains and some 50 rivers before it reaches the central part of Liaoning, a traditional industrial base of China. The tunnel will divert water from mountainous areas in eastern Liaoning to the central part of the province. Construction of the project is continuing smoothly, said Zhong Gang, director of the Liaoning Water Resources Bureau. The tunnel is longer than the world's longest railway tunnel, which extends for 57.6 km in Switzerland. — Xinhua

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