Recently, the land for the Baile Water Conservancy Project in Quanzhou, Fujian has been approved by the State Council and the Ministry of Natural Resources has officially approved it, with a total area of 20.89 square kilometers.

Quanzhou Baile Water Control Project

The Quanzhou Baile Water Conservancy Project is located in the upper reaches of the main stream of Xixi River, Jinjiang River, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. The dam site is located in Changji Village, Baile Township, Anxi County. 288 meters, the total storage capacity of the reservoir is 544 million cubic meters, and the storage capacity of Xingli is 492 million cubic meters.

The total construction period of the project is 54 months. The project will permanently acquire 25,896 mu of land, temporarily occupy 82 mu of land, demolish 2,487,100 square meters of houses, and relocate 38,866 people. The land acquisition for the project involves 24 administrative villages in 6 townships in Anxi and Yongchun counties. As well as 2 market towns and related facilities, about 40,000 people will be relocated and resettled, with an estimated total investment of 14.269 billion yuan.

The development tasks of Baile Water Control Project are mainly water supply, combined with flood control and power generation, and create conditions for improving downstream irrigation and ecological water use. After the completion of the project, in conjunction with the downstream embankment works, the urban flood control capacity of Anxi County and Nan'an City can be increased from the current 20-year and 30-year once-in-a-lifetime to 50-year-in-flood respectively.

The relevant person in charge of the Quanzhou water conservancy department introduced that the annual project investment of 2.5 billion yuan expected to be completed in 2022 will be mainly used to promote the construction of sub-projects such as the main project, the resettlement area, and the special 2.5 billion yuan reconstruction project. After the completion of this reservoir, which is equivalent to 3.3 times the water surface area of Hangzhou West Lake, it will effectively guarantee the water supply scale of Jinjiang City’s water supply project to Kinmen Island of 34,000 cubic meters per day, and the multi-year average water supply to Kinmen will reach 12 million cubic meters. The long-term overexploitation of groundwater and the decline of groundwater level have caused the trend of salinization, which is of great significance to help the sustainable economic and social development of Kinmen area and improve people's livelihood. Editor/He Yuting