During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will build approximately 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways.

The reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission's "Striving for the 15th Five-Year Plan" series of press conferences that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will build approximately 2,500 kilometers of national high-grade waterways and more than 100 automated terminal berths of 10,000-ton class and above, basically completing a modern water transport system. Xia Xin, Director of the Infrastructure Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that China will build world-class ports, enhance the shipping services, industrial support, and resource allocation capabilities of the world-class port clusters in the Bohai Rim, Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, optimize and upgrade the transport functions of major ports for bulk materials, strengthen the connectivity of the inland water transport system, systematically enhance the navigation capacity of the Yangtze River mainline, steadily break through navigation bottlenecks in key inter-provincial waterways, accelerate the construction of a world-class Shanghai International Shipping Center, actively develop the Southeast Coastal port cluster and the Beibu Gulf port cluster, and build the new Three Gorges water transport channel.