CHINA-RUSSIA: WATER SUPPLY TO XINJIANG AND GANSU

The Guardian newspaper on March 7, 2017,reported that China is considering plans to build a 1,000km (620 mile) pipeline to pump water from Siberia to its drought-stricken northwest. Chinese media reports claim that urban planners in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, have drawn up proposals to pipe water into the chronically parched region from Russia’s Lake Baikal. The pipeline would begin at the southwestern tip of the 600km-long Russian lake and run about 1,000km, across Mongolia, to Gansu’s capital through the Hexi corridor. Li Luoli, Vice President of the state-run think-tank China Society of Economic Reform, claimed the mega-project was theoretically feasible and “certainly beneficial” to China. He added that “Once the technical issues are resolved, diplomats should sit down and talk to each other about how each party would benefit from such international cooperation.” The state-run Global Times separately said the pipeline would quench the “desperate thirst” of Gansu province and boost its “ecological environment” and economy.







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