Tarim River Basin Comprehensive Control Project
2 min readThe Tarim River is China’s longest inland river with a total length of 2,179 kilometers.
The river basin covers a total of 1.02 million square kilometers with a total population of 902 million. From 2001, the state began to implement the Tarim River basin comprehensive control project.
After many years of control, key projects including the Tarim River main stream comprehensive control project, the east Bostan Lake pumping station and the Xiabandi key water control project were completed successively, effectively improving the river basin’ sdrought and disaster relief capability. Meanwhile, the task of emergency water diversion to the”green passage”in the lower reaches of the Tarim River was completed 13 times,ending the 30-plus-year history of drying of the 300-plus-kilometer river course in the thelower reaches of the Tarim River. The underground water levels on both sides of the river in the lower reaches have risen notably, the area of vegetation on both banks has reached 270,000 mu, and the trend of ecological deterioration has been preliminarily reversed.
By the end of 2012,a total of 9.882 billion yuan had been invested in the short-termTarim River basin comprehensive control project, the investment completion rate being 94%. During the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, the remaining task of investing 1.91 billion yuan in project construction will be completed, construction of backbone projects and supporting projects will be accelerated, and overall assessment of the effect of short-term comprehensive control will be carried out as soon as possible to formulate the comprehensive plan for the Tarim River basin and create conditions for launching the second-phase Tarim River basin control project.
In 2012, unified year-round water diversion in the Tarim River basin was realized for the first time, and the river basin’s water resource utilization rate rose significantly.
Between 2011 and 2012, the Tarim River basin’s agricultural irrigation area was 24.14 million mu, and a win-win situation was achieved for productive and ecological water supply.
