2025. Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
At the meeting, the "Top Ten Global Engineering Achievements 2025" selected by Engineering, a journal of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was released. Among them, the middle route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project and the Taklimakan Desert Lock Border Project were included in the list, and China Railway Construction Corporation, as the main participating unit, contributed to the project construction.
On October 13, the General Assembly of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations opened in Shanghai in 2025. Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Photographed
by Wang Ye, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, the "Top Ten Global Engineering Achievements 2025" was determined through global nomination, expert selection and recommendation, public questionnaire survey, and deliberation by the selection committee. The "Top Ten Global Engineering Achievements" in this selection mainly refer to the major innovations in engineering science and technology that have been completed in the past five years and have been proved effective in practice and have a global impact, including major engineering projects or key technical equipment, as well as key original innovations and breakthroughs in engineering science and technology.
The "Top 10 Global Engineering Achievements in 2025" are: Antibody Conjugate Drugs, Blackwell GPU Architecture, DeepSeek Open Source Big Language Model, Deep-sea Manned Submersible, High-performance Carbon Fiber Composite, Humanoid Robot, Mars Probe Perseverance, Euclid Space Telescope, The Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and the Taklimakan Desert Border Lock Project.
It is understood that the "2025 Top Ten Global Engineering Achievements" embodies four characteristics: First, it embodies the most advanced technological level in the field of engineering science and technology or achieves major original breakthroughs. Secondly, it comprehensively reflects the systematic innovation of the project to achieve the overall goal through technology integration, system optimization and resource coordination. Thirdly, it highlights the development direction of new quality productivity, has the potential to promote the birth of new industries and stimulate new momentum, and has significant industrial and economic driving value. Fourthly, it highlights the key role of engineering in breaking through the limits and helping mankind effectively respond to global challenges. On August 25,
2022, as an important part of China's national inter-basin water diversion project, the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project was officially put into operation. The project diverts water from the Danjiangkou Reservoir in Hubei Province to Beijing and Tianjin through Henan and Hebei. The total length of the main canal is 1432 kilometers, showing a trend of high in the south and low in the north. The designed annual water diversion volume is 9.5 billion cubic meters. Open channels, aqueducts, culverts, tunnels and other forms of water conveyance are used to realize the whole process of gravity water conveyance.
Among them, the Yellow River Crossing Tunnel Project of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, which was constructed by the 16th Bureau of China Railway, is known as the largest water conservancy project crossing major rivers in human history, and is also the first water tunnel crossing the Yellow River in China. With a total length of 4,250 meters and a diameter of 7 meters, the tunnel passes through the bottom of the Yellow River at an average depth of 40 meters. It is the largest and most difficult "throat" project in the middle route project. In the Anyang section
of the first phase of the Middle Route of
the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, under the conditions of high water pressure, sand gushing, water gushing and landslides, the builders adopted shield technology to cross the Yellow River with extremely complex geological strata for a long distance and at one time. It has successively overcome world-class construction problems such as ultra-deep diaphragm wall, ultra-deep soil reinforcement, ultra-deep shaft, big bore shield machine passing through complex geological strata, and successfully created construction records such as the deepest depth, the largest water pressure and the longest distance of underwater tunnel shield construction in China's water conservancy and hydropower projects, which has become an epoch-making landmark project in the Yellow River Basin. After the completion of the Middle Route of
the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, it not only optimizes the allocation of water resources and ensures the safety of drinking water, but also effectively promotes the ecological environment restoration and sustainable development of rivers and lakes along the line, which provides a reference solution for global water resources allocation and ecological optimization.
Taklimakan Desert Locking Project
Taklimakan Desert Locking Project Completed
On November 28, 2024, the landmark project of China's "Three North" battle, the 3046-kilometer-long Taklimakan Desert Locking Project, was successfully closed.
China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) participated in the border locking project in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, where more than 75% of the tasks are concentrated in the last 285 kilometers of the border locking circle around the pagoda. In order to ensure that the source of sand does not expand and spread, and lock up the "downwind" of Hetian, the development of railway construction led by China Railway Construction Bridge Bureau, China Railway 21 Bureau and China Railway 23 Bureau, which are responsible for the most difficult sand control section of Minfeng, divides the 35 km locking project into the first and second phases of implementation, and adheres to the principle of "monthly progress and quarterly results". The project has installed 87 kilometers of high vertical sand barriers, planted 3898 mu of grass squares, and harnessed 8394 mu of desert area, equivalent to 785 football fields, successfully completing the established task of locking the border.
The builders have comprehensively applied various measures such as forest and grass construction, engineering sand fixation and photovoltaic sand control to break through extreme environmental constraints such as drought, water shortage and strong wind and sand activities, overcome a series of technical problems such as wind and sand channels, complex terrain and difficult sites, and constructed the world's longest green ecological barrier around the desert to control sand sources. It has effectively protected the surrounding oasis, farmland, grassland and other ecosystems, changed the thousand-year history of "sand advancing and people retreating", and provided a new model for global desertification control and regional sustainable development.
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