China’s new US$10.7 billion canal near completion to boost Asean trade links
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The Pinglu Canal – a US$10 billion waterway connecting China’s heartlands to the Gulf of Tonkin – will begin trial operations as soon as September.

China’s landmark Pinglu Canal has entered its final phase of construction and is set to begin trial operations as early as September

The Pinglu Canal – China’s most ambitious waterway project in centuries – will stretch 134km (83 miles) from Nanning, capital of the southern Guangxi region, to the Gulf of Tonkin, known as the Beibu Gulf in China.