China Will Improve Yangtze Navigation
China plans a 15-year project to expand and modernize navigation on its greatest waterway, the Yangtze River, and its 90 navigable tributaries, the New China News Agency said Monday.
By the turn of the century, vessels will be able to reach every major city on the river and its tributaries, the Ministry of Transport decided at a meeting in the southern city of Nanchang.
The plan involves building 39 new ports on 33 major tributaries and setting up a new communications system with radar and short-wave radio systems.
Harbors below the city of Nanjing will be equipped for international container traffic, and 10 new river berths will be set aside for foreign trade, the agency said.
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