China is willing to spend 70 billion yuan to dig out a canal. Is the canal still useful today

The most famous artificial Grand Canal in China is the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, which has been open to water for thousands of years. So, in the face of more diverse modern transportation methods, is the canal still useful? Why is China willing to spend 70 billion yuan on investment and still have to dig up a path?The country has invested heavily in the construction of a canal, and a canal will be built in Pinglu, Guangxi

The most famous artificial Grand Canal in China is the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, which has been open to water for thousands of years. So, in the face of more diverse modern transportation methods, is the canal still useful? Why is China willing to spend 70 billion yuan on investment and still have to dig up a path?

The country has invested heavily in the construction of a canal, and a canal will be built in Pinglu, Guangxi. Guangxi needs a smooth waterway that leads directly to the sea outlet, which can provide better assistance for economic development.

The Pinglu Canal is designed to be built with a total mileage of 140 kilometers, connecting Nanning across Guangxi to the Gulf of Tonkin. It can be connected with the waterway of Guangdong to increase trade exchanges.

Water transportation is very important because nowadays shipping ships are built with high technology, with considerable power systems and loading capacity. Moreover, compared to railway, road, and aircraft transportation, the cost of water transportation is the lowest, and the efficiency is also very high. The loading capacity of airplanes and road vehicles cannot be compared to thousands of tons of ships, or even tens of thousands of tons of ships.

Each railway carriage can only load dozens of tons, and even a whole train can only load a few hundred tons, but it cannot be compared to a ship. Moreover, after calculating the transportation cost per kilometer, the cost of waterway transportation is less than one yuan per kilometer. The degree of this discount requires frequent trade freight forwarders to accumulate such smooth and favorable waterway transportation methods. This is also why the economy of coastal areas is very developed, close to ports, with convenient shipping, which naturally has a better promotion and impact on economic development.

There are many mountains in Guangxi. Although there are many rivers, there is a lack of access to the sea. At present, there is only one port in the Gulf of Tonkin. It is not convenient to provide access to ports for manufacturing hubs. Due to the lack of such convenient conditions, many trade loading and unloading goods ultimately choose to go to Guangdong, and the preferential policies for economic development also lean towards Guangdong. The trade activities in Guangdong are becoming increasingly prosperous, and the growth of trade volume is also very fast. Guangxi is naturally envious of Guangdong's developed waterways and promoting economic development. Now that the country has decided to support Guangxi in building the Pinglu Grand Canal, it is very joyful.

If the construction of the Pinglu Grand Canal is completed, what benefits will it bring to Guangxi?

According to the scientifically planned route, the Pinglu Canal connects all the water areas it passes through, increasing trade volume, attracting more ships to Guangxi, increasing economic cooperation, and is expected to develop into a shipping scale in the Pearl River Delta in the future. It can be imagined that the economic benefits will also be very considerable.

The workload of this Grand Canal is very large, and many tributaries need to be excavated and the main main stream needs to be excavated. The total amount of earthwork needs to be excavated exceeds 300 million cubic meters. The total amount of engineering is very large, and the environment along the coast needs to be protected. These earthwork can be directly and reasonably planned into farmland according to the appropriate geographical location along the coast, so that the people along the coast can have more ecological land. In addition, the greenery along the coast and park style scenery also provide a better ecological environment for this canal.

The Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal in China has a navigable capacity of only over a thousand tons of ships, while the Pinglu Grand Canal has a navigable capacity of 5000 tons of large ships.

The waterway of this Grand Canal also faces construction technical challenges, with a water level drop exceeding 60 meters being a surprising challenge. This highly intuitive understanding is equivalent to the height of a 20 story ordinary residential building. In this case, it is equivalent to jumping directly from a 20 story height to a waterway with a drop of 50 meters. How can a ship loaded with goods safely and smoothly overcome the drop from such a high position?

The technical solution designed is to allow the ship to pass through such a high water level in a stepped manner, ultimately safely and smoothly crossing the water level drop.

Once Guangxi has this Grand Canal, the transportation waterway can save hundreds of kilometers, and the remaining transportation costs and time can provide more advantages for trade and improve competitiveness. The annual cost savings for transportation alone can reach several billion yuan.

So the cost of investing 70 billion yuan in this Grand Canal by the government is considered high by many people. In fact, in the future, this Grand Canal can contribute to both the local economy and the national economic construction, and the value created is infinite. The future will still be a project that benefits future generations.

In addition, the Pinglu Grand Canal can provide better convenience for trade between China and ASEAN countries, and increase trade interaction between China's goods from this port and ASEAN countries, resulting in higher efficiency. The West has been suppressing China's trade exports, and in this situation, China has strengthened its cooperation with ASEAN.

Only modern construction methods can efficiently complete such a massive canal project. If it were in ancient times, excavating such a large-scale canal project would have been impossible for several decades. Now, with the assistance of various high-tech machinery and equipment, it has a better acceleration effect on the construction cycle.

The project is currently progressing smoothly, and netizens are also looking forward to the completion and delivery of this Grand Canal.

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