What impact will the Yangtze River Diversion and Huaihe River project have on Hefei?

Let’s give you a brief introduction to the Yangtze River Diversion and Huaihe River Project. The Yangtze River Diversion and Huaihe River Project involves Anhui and Henan provinces, with a total length of 723 kilometers of water transmission lines. Among them, the water transmission line in Anhui is 587.4 kilometers long, and the preliminary design approval has a total investment of 87.537 billion yuan.

The diversion project from the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River is not only a major strategic water resource allocation and other comprehensive utilization project, but also a major infrastructure and major people's livelihood project, which is related to the long-term development of Anhui's economy and society. It connects the three strategic areas of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Hefei Economic Circle, and Central Plains Economic Zone. It will solve the water shortage situation in the Huaihe River Basin, enhance the water security capabilities of Anhui along the Huaihe and Huaibei regions, and build a second river entry channel parallel to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. , optimize the regional comprehensive transportation system, restore the water ecological functions of Chaohu Lake, curb the over-exploitation of groundwater in Huaibei region, improve the water ecological environment of the Huaihe River Basin, promote regional coordination and cooperation, and support the sustainable economic and social development of the northern Anhui region and even the province. Immeasurable effect.

One of the important tasks of the river diversion project to the Huaihe River is to improve the water environment of Chaohu Lake and the Huaihe River. On the one hand, it promotes the improvement of the water quality and water ecological environment of Chaohu Lake; on the other hand, it helps maintain the ecological base flow of the Huaihe River, inhibits overexploitation of groundwater in the middle and deep layers of Huaibei, and improves the water conditions of the ecological environment.

Overall, 2/3 of the construction volume of the Yangtze River Diversion to Huaihe River Project is within the scope of Hefei City. Estimated based on price levels in the third quarter of 2014, the total investment in the project to divert the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River is 71.7 billion yuan, of which the investment in projects within the jurisdiction of Hefei City is approximately more than 50 billion yuan.

After the project is completed, it will benefit 13 cities and 46 counties in Anhui, with a water supply population of 41.31 million, which can change the water shortage problem in the middle reaches of the Huaihe River; develop shipping - create a "water highway" connecting the river to the sea; when Chao Lake When the water quality is good, there will be a certain exchange of water bodies in rivers and lakes; if the water quality does not meet the requirements, the river water will flow directly into the Huaihe River without passing through Chaohu Lake, thereby improving the water environment of Chaohu Lake and the Huaihe River.

In an era when trains and high-speed rail were not available, maritime/water transportation could be said to influence the historical development process of a country or city.

The canal has always been a city’s production line, and its contribution to Anhui’s development and future is immeasurable!

Refer to the impact of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal on the historical process

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal carries the history of the rise of cities. From Dezhou, Linqing, and Liaocheng in Shandong, to Xuzhou, Huai'an, and Yangzhou in northern Jiangsu, to Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, and Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, and Jiaxing, Huzhou, and Hangzhou in Zhejiang, countless cities are connected by the Grand Canal. prosper.

What kind of memories will the Jianghuai Grand Canal leave us in the future!

At the end of 2016, the "South-to-North Water Diversion" project, known as Anhui's version of the "Millennium Plan", officially started the project to divert the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River. This major water channel connecting the north and the south, connecting the Yangtze River, Huaihe River and Chaohu Lake, is known as As the "Jianghuai Grand Canal".

Anhui’s abbreviation Wan comes from the Wanshan River in Qianshan (ancient Wan Kingdom). Because the Yangtze River flows through Anhui, it is also known as the “800-mile Wanjiang River”. At the same time, the Huaihe River flows through Anhui for 430 kilometers, accounting for It accounts for half of the total length of the Huaihe River, so it is also called the Jianghuai Land.

Hefei, the provincial capital, is located in the middle of Anhui and between the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers. Anhui is neither east nor west. History is all about the Jianghuai River. In ancient times, Fu Jian, the king of the former Qin Dynasty, defeated Feishui. From then on, the Central Plains once again Torn apart. Then Zhang Liao shocked Xiaoyaojin, forcing Wu State's strategic focus to shift from the Hefei area to the Jingzhou area, which directly led to the breakdown of the Sun-Liu alliance. As recently as January 21, 1949, Hefei was liberated. Since then, Hefei has taken over the position of commanding the cross-river battle, which is also the beginning of the cross-river battle, and China has been unified since then.

Speaking of the Jianghuai Grand Canal, we have to talk about the Jianghuai watershed, which serves as the dividing line between the Yangtze River Basin and the Huaihe River Basin. It covers an area of ??about 20,000 square kilometers and has an average altitude of 100-300 meters. The head of the ridge is in Yuexi County, spanning Anqing, Lu'an, Hefei, and Huainan, and the tail of the ridge covers almost the entire territory of Chuzhou. The location of Hefei's cities and counties such as Feidong, Feixi and Chaohu is particularly typical. Rainfall flows from here to the Yangtze River or Huaihe River, with the southern foot flowing to the Yangtze River and the northern foot flowing into the Huaihe River, so it is called the Yangtze-Huaihe River watershed.

Cao Cao also wanted to connect the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.

It is said that nearly 2,000 years ago, Cao Cao saw the importance of connecting the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River from a strategic perspective. When he occupied Hefei, he ordered his men to build a "new city" and dig a canal to connect the two rivers. , to facilitate the transportation of supplies and water diversion for irrigation during the attack on Wu. However, what Cao Cao did not expect was that the river crossing the foothills of Jiming Mountain was dug today, but it was filled with sand again overnight. In the end, the exhausted general was dismissed by Cao Cao and investigated. However, the desire to communicate with Jianghuai moved the people. People remembered this "frustrated" general and called the place "Jiangjunling".

In the reign of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty, Prime Minister Du You also proposed opening up the waterway from Chaohu Lake to the Huaihe River.

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Huaihe River became the first river to be systematically regulated on a large scale. The idea of ??connecting the Jianghuai River in Anhui Province resurfaced, and the Huaihe River Commission, the Provincial Planning Commission, the Transportation Department and other departments discussed the idea The research and demonstration of the Jiang-Ji-Huai Project has never stopped.

In 1953, when Mao Zedong gave a speech in Anqing, he proposed cutting Jiangjun Ridge to connect the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers.

In the early 1950s, the former Huaihe River Commission and the Anhui Provincial Water Conservancy and Transportation Department began the investigation and preliminary demonstration of the communication project;

In 1976, the South-to-North Water Diversion Planning Group of the Ministry of Water Power prepared The "Report on the Recent South-to-North Water Diversion Project" (first draft) pointed out: "The Chaohu Line is more suitable as a water diversion channel from the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River."

In 1982, the "Minutes of the Huaihe River Control Conference" approved by the State Council pointed out: "Should be used The water source of the Yangtze River supplements the water source of the Huaihe River. ”

In 1995, the Jianghuai Canal was listed as an important part of the national planned water transportation channel;

In 1997, the Jianghuai Canal was included in the national plan. 136 One of the important waterways;

In September 2004, the Jianghuai Canal was included in Anhui’s water transport development plan and passed the review of the expert group;

In 2010, he served as deputy director of the Ministry of Transport Minister Weng Mengyong stated when inspecting water transport construction in Hefei, Chaohu and other places that the Ministry of Transport will support Anhui in carrying out the preliminary work of the Jianghuai Canal project and dig a new longitudinal river channel to connect the Yangtze River, Chaohu and Huaihe River in Anhui. Regardless of the transportation department The "Jianghuai Canal" is mentioned, the water conservancy department talks about "diversion of the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River", or the environmental protection department talks about "the diversion of the river to the Huaihe River". This "Jianghuai Grand Canal" project that connects the two major water systems of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River is the dream of generations of people in Anhui. .

The millennium dream of 70 million Anhui people has come true today.

On the morning of December 29, 2016, the Yangtze River Diversion to Huaihe River Project officially started construction. It is a project that focuses on urban and rural water supply and the development of Jianghuai shipping, combined with irrigation water replenishment and improvement of the water ecological environment of Chaohu Lake and the Huaihe River. Large-scale cross-basin water diversion project. From south to north, it is divided into three sections: diversion of the river to Jichao, communication between the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, and northward transmission of river water. The total length of the water transmission line is 723 kilometers, including 88.7 kilometers of newly opened canals, 311.6 kilometers of existing rivers and lakes, 215.6 kilometers of dredging and expansion, and pressure pipelines. 107.1 kilometers. The water supply scope covers 46 counties (cities and districts) in 12 cities in Anhui Province: Bozhou, Fuyang, Suzhou, Huaibei, Bengbu, Huainan, Chuzhou, Tongling, Hefei, Ma'anshan, Wuhu, and Anqing, and 9 counties (cities and districts) in 2 cities in Henan Province: Zhoukou and Shangqiu. Counties (cities, districts), covering an area of ??approximately 70,600 square kilometers. The estimated total investment of the project is 91.271 billion yuan, and the total construction period is 72 months.

A Jianghuai Grand Canal will hold up what kind of urban development imprint the entire Anhui will have! And ultimately be remembered by history.

Hefei has benefited the most from the project of diversion of the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River, which has allowed Hefei to connect to the river and the sea. This has changed Hefei’s water transport disadvantage when competing with its neighboring brother provincial capitals Wuhan and Nanjing, and made Hefei a water transport hub city in Anhui. , a key node city in the national water transportation system, while greatly reducing Hefei’s internal and external transportation costs of bulk goods.

When Anhui was elected as the provincial capital after liberation, the provincial government submitted two alternative cities, one was Wuhu and the other was Bengbu. Wuhu is located along the Yangtze River and has water transportation advantages; Bengbu is located on the Beijing-Shanghai Line and has railway transportation advantages. Driven by their transportation advantages, these two cities were also the two cities with the best economic and urban construction foundations in Anhui at that time.

Later, great people believed that Wuhu was located in the south of Anhui and Bengbu was located in the north of Anhui, so it was not suitable to be the provincial capital. Hefei was located in the middle of Anhui and was not suitable to be the provincial capital.

Since then, Hefei has grown from a small county with a population of less than 50,000 and few streets to the provincial capital of Anhui. Although Hefei has become the provincial capital, it has had no sense of presence in the country and the province for a long time. People from other provinces do not recognize it, and people in the province are dissatisfied. Its status is very embarrassing.

One of the most important reasons for Hefei’s low status and lack of strength in the country and the province is that the transportation conditions are too poor. Although it is located in the middle of Anhui, it does not rely on the Yangtze River or the Huaihe River. The two main rivers in China that pass through Anhui have not brought any benefits to Hefei. In the era of common railways, Hefei did not have a main line railway passing through it, so it was a weak existence. As a result, as a provincial capital city, it ranks very low in the national rankings. Even the economic strength of Wuhu, Bengbu, Fuyang and other cities in the province is ahead of it.

Hefei has seized the opportunity of high-speed rail construction. The Beijing-Hong Kong, Beijing-Taiwan, Beiyanjiang, Zhenghe-Hangzhou and other national high-speed rail trunk lines intersect in Hefei, becoming a national high-speed rail hub city in the shape of a rice. The project of diversion of the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River is divided into three sections from south to north: the diversion of the Yangtze River to Chao, the communication between the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, and the northward transmission of river water. The total length of the line is 723 kilometers. The project connects the two main rivers of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River in Anhui, and connects the Chaohu Lake, Shaying River, and Hehe River. Yu Line, Wushen Canal and many other river and lake water systems are connected, allowing Hefei, located in central Anhui, to have direct access to the Yangtze River in the south and the Huaihe River in the north, integrating into the provincial and national water transportation network.

Construction has finally started. I talked about building the Grand Canal when I was a kid. It finally started this year. The Jianghuai Grand Canal happens to pass through my hometown!

Huge impact! Truly have your own port! You can reach the river and the sea! Accelerate development!

The people have benefited greatly from the livelihood project

It is better to absorb and merge Wuwei and go all out to build Wuwei Port on the Yangtze River. Hefei will suddenly transform into a big city along the river, joining Nanjing, Wuhan and Chongqing. Yan Huan!

Hefei can achieve the goal of connecting rivers and seas, laying a solid foundation for the next step of going global!

Necessary

It is recommended that the Huaihe Canal be diverted from the Yangtze River and add important towns and tourist attractions along the way to set up tourist terminals, so that the resources can be fully utilized and developed into a new economic growth point.