Gas Pipeline Runs over 4000 km Across China

If the Great Wall that runs from east to west，winding up high mountains and lofty hills and the plateau desert is said to resemble a flying dragon，then，the west-to-east gas pipeline，that leads from west to east，runs through deserts，crosses Taihang Mountains and gets across the Yellow and Yangtze rivers，meandering 80001i（4000 km）and brings benefits to hundreds of millions of people，is a magic hidden dragon.

This 4000 km-long main energy artery that runs through the heartland of China starts west from Lunnan of the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Beyinguoleng in Xinjiang，via Gansu and Ningxia into Shaanxi and，in Jingbian of Shaanxi，connects with the Changqing Gas-field and then gets across the Yellow River through Shanxi，Henan，Anhui，Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to reach Shanghai in the east，pipelining the rich reserves of natural gas in the Tarim Basin unceasingly to China’s economically most developed southeast coastal regions.

The west-to-east gas pipelining project is the largest scheme started up in the beginning of the new century in China:investment of 27.3 billion Yuan has been madefor the prospecting and development of the upstream gas-field and 43.5 billion Yuanfor pipeline construction，investment of 68.8 billion Yuan has been channeled to the downstream gas-using project as well as to the construction of urban pipe network.the scale of investment is in no way inferior to that of the Three Gorges Project，it will play a tremendous role in boosting the development of the western region.

For this reason，after the Party Central Committee and the State Council formally announced the start of the west-to-east gas-pipelining project in March 2000.

Premier Zhu Rongji called it as”the curtain has been raised for the large-scale development of the western region”.More than two years have passed，after the overture has been sounded，what magnificent drama will be staged？

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