A water pipeline¹ connecting Chinese mainland coastal² province of Fujian to Kinmen went into operation on Sunday, delivering water from Fujian's Jinjiang River to alleviate³ water shortages in Kinmen.

 

一条连接中国大陆福建省与金门的输水管线周日开始动工，用晋江的水缓解金门的水资源短缺。

 

The source of the water-diversion project is Longhu Lake in Jinjiang City, the second largest lake in Fujian.

 

The 28-km pipeline will provide 34,000 cubic meters of water daily to Kinmen, a small island attached to Taiwan but very near the mainland.

 

The investment totals 388 million yuan (about 57 million U.S. dollars) and the water price has been set at 9.86 new Taiwan dollars (around 0.33 U.S. dollars) per cubic meter.

 

The smooth operation of the water supplying project concerning Kinmen people's welfare is a great event in the history of Kinmen's development as well as the cross-Strait relations, Liu Jieyi, head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said at a ceremony held in Jinjiang.

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