Day in pictures: Apr. 16
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Workers celebrate after the world's longest water diversion tunnel is completed in northeast China's Liaoning Province, on April 15, 2009. Construction teams digging the world's longest water diversion tunnel completed their work Wednesday in Liaoning Province, breaking a record held by Japan's Seikan (Aomori-Hakodate) tunnel, which is 53.86 km long. The 85.3 kilometer long tunnel starts in Hengren county in east Liaoning and ends in Xinbin county in the west part of the province, it will bring water from the Dahuofang Reservoir to more than 10 million people in seven industrial cities of the province. [Xinhua] |
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