11月8日上午,省委,省政府在景泰县城隆重举行景电二期延伸向民勤调水工程开工典礼,之后又在腾格里沙漠南缘工地举行了剪彩奠基仪式。到此,几十万民勤人民翘首以盼的引水工程正式拉开了帷幕。民勤县位于我省河西走廊东端,石羊河下游,西、北、东三面被巴丹吉林和腾格里大沙漠包围,严酷的自然环境严重地影响着民勤绿洲的生存和发展。近些年来,由于石羊河流域水资源日益减少,地下水位下降,风沙不断侵蚀,生态逐年恶化,给该县湖区群众的生产、生活造成很大困难。为了民勤湖区10多万人的生存和发展,为解决武威地区经济、社会发展面临的严重缺水局面,进一步改变沙进人退的问题,省委、省政府决定,在我省财力十分困难的情况下,争取国家的支持,利用景电二期工程已经建成的间隙提水能力,向西延伸工程渠道100多公里,逐步实现每年向民勤县调水6100万立方米。作为近期解决民勤县水资源紧缺的应急措施。工程东起景泰县五佛寺 The morning of November 8, the provincial party committee and government held a grand ceremony in Jingtai County to extend the redevelopment project to the Minqin Water Diversion Project. After that, a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site of the southern edge of the Tengger Desert. At this point, hundreds of thousands of Minqin people highly anticipated diversion project officially kicked off. Minqin County is located in the eastern end of Hexi Corridor in our province, downstream of Shiyang River, surrounded by Badain Jaran and Tengger Desert on the west, north and east sides. The harsh natural environment seriously affects the survival and development of Minqin Oasis. In recent years, due to the decreasing water resources in the Shiyang River Basin, the decrease of groundwater table, the continuous erosion of aeolian sand and the worsening of the ecological environment year by year, great difficulties have been caused to the production and livelihood of the masses in this lake area. In order to survive and develop the 100,000-plus people in the Minqin Lake area and solve the serious water shortage situation in Wuwei’s economic and social development and further change the issue of the withdrawal of Shajin people, the provincial party committee and the provincial government decided that it is very difficult in our province to have financial resources Of the case, for national support, the use of King two projects have been completed gaps in water capacity, westward extension of the project more than 100 kilometers of channels, and gradually achieve annual water transfer 61 million cubic meters to Minqin County. As a solution to the recent shortage of water resources in Minqin County emergency measures. Project East Jingtai County five Buddhist temple