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World records set by South-to-North Water Diversion Project
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The South-to-North Water Diversion Project has set multiple new world records, including its construction scale, water diversion distance, population benefited, population resettlement, and complexity of engineering.
China.org.cn丨Updated: May 8, 2018
IX. World's largest U-type aqueduct – the Tuanhe Aqueduct Project in the central route
The Tuanhe Aqueduct Project in the central route is a U-type aqueduct with three-dimension prestressing. The inner diameter of the aqueduct is nine meters, the single span 40 meters, and the maximum flow 420 cubic meters per second. All three parameters are unprecedented.
An overlook of the Tuanhe Aqueduct in the Central Route.