New follow-up project for China's south-to-north water diversion begins construction

BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The construction of a project linking China's two mega water infrastructures -- the Three Gorges project and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project -- started Thursday, a new move to further transfer water to the country's dry north and improve its national water network.

Vice Premier Han Zheng, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and head of a leading group on high-quality follow-up development of the water diversion project, announced the start of the new project's construction at a meeting on the matter held via video link.