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2010年

全国水利发展统计公报

The new satellite communication platform was completed and put into operation.
The new platform, installed with 27.2 MHz satellite resources, is suitable for
emergency usage, and applied to small river and reservoir improvement,
hydrological forecasting, data broadcasting, video consultation and monitoring.

Ⅲ. Key Water Structures

Embankments and water gates. The length of river embankments constructed in
the whole country reached to 294,100 km. Of which, 121,400 km of embankment
met the standard, and the rate of up-to-standard accounts to 41.3%. The length of
embankment met the standard of Grade-I and Grade-II was 27,900 km, accounting
for 78.4% of the total Grade-I and Grade-II embankment. These embankments
are able to protect 600 million people and 47 million ha of cultivated land. Water
gates of all kinds constructed all over the country was 43,300, of which 567 were
large water gates. The water gates includes 2,797 flood diversion sluices, 14,676
drainage sluices, 4,694 tidal barrage, 8,182 water diversion intakes and 12,951
controlling gates.

Length of embankment

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