Tunneling (China) When excavating an 18 km tunnel in the Chinese province of Gansu, contractors Gansu Sino-Italy, quickly realised they needed Grindex pumps to handle the large-scale dewatering problems they were encountering. The Yintao project is a large-scale water transfer undertaking currently on-going in north-west China. This enormous scheme, which comprises more than 200 km of tunnels, is part of a series of projects that will help transport some of the water resources in the south of the country to the northern regions. It is the largest water related project in the Gansu Province since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. The entire project has been designated as a “Throat Project” (key project), owing to the complicated geological conditions posed by the deep

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