Key Water Control Project Completes in XinjiangWork on the Uluwat water control project, the largest of its kind in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, completed Monday after five years of construction.The project is built at a tributary of the Hotan River at the southern edge of Taklimakan Desert. The multi-purpose project combines water control with power generation, irrigation and environmental improvement. It has a 138-meter-high dam, the highest in Xinjiang, an installed capacity of 60 million kilowatts, and a reservoir with a storage capacity of 347 million cubic meters, capable of improving irrigation in 75,000 hectares of farmland. Construction of the project cost 1.4 billion yuan pooled by the central and local governments and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Hotan is an arid area inhabited by 1.5 million people of different ethnic groups, and the project is expected to be of great significance to promote local economic growth. |
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