Beijing, June 30(ANI): The trunk line of the world's longest natural gas pipeline, or main line of China's second west-to-east natural gas pipeline, went into operation today.
The pipeline, connecting central Asia and China, will deliver natural gas from Turkmenistan to as far afield as Shanghai in eastern China and Guangzhou and Hong Kong in southern China, Xinhua reports.
Once completed, the entire pipeline, which starts in Huoerguosi on the China-Kazakhstan border, will be about 8,700kilometres long.
The pipeline will have one trunk and eight branches.
Three branches have been completed and the other five will be finished next year.
After completion, the 142.2-billion-yuan (21.88 billion dollar) pipeline project will carry 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually.
China's first west-to-east pipeline, which pipes gas from Tarim Basin of Xinjiang to Shanghai, is designed to transmit 12 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually. (ANI)
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