Friday is an important day for China's South-North water transfer project, with water beginning to flow from the Danjiangkou reservoir in central China to Beijing.
The central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project transfers water from the Danjiangkou Reservoir located in the upper and middle reach of the Hanjiang River, the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, to the Tuancheng Lake in Beijing's Summer Palace, running across the Yellow River through a tunnel.