<p>The pipeline, which linked Turkmenistan with southern China, will boost supplies to the country's booming industrial zones in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.<br /><br />The pipeline will have one trunk and eight branches. Three branches have been completed and the other five will be finished next year.<br /><br />The pipeline starts in Huoerguosi on the China-Kazakhstan border, 670 km northwest of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.<br /><br />The annual natural gas transportation capacity of the pipeline is expected to be 30 billion cubic meters. It is designed to provide stable gas supply for at least 30 years.<br /><br />Liao Yongyuan, deputy general manager of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), said the project would optimise the country's energy consumption structure benefiting about 500 million people.<br /><br />As of May 28 this year, the already finished lines had delivered 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas to about 18 provincial regions and about 100 million people, Liao said.<br /><br />It is expected to help ease strained natural gas supply in the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta.</p>.<p>And it is planned to be connected with natural gas lines already in use, resulting in a network totalling 40,000 km of gas pipelines, state-run Xinhua reported. </p>
<p>The pipeline, which linked Turkmenistan with southern China, will boost supplies to the country's booming industrial zones in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.<br /><br />The pipeline will have one trunk and eight branches. Three branches have been completed and the other five will be finished next year.<br /><br />The pipeline starts in Huoerguosi on the China-Kazakhstan border, 670 km northwest of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.<br /><br />The annual natural gas transportation capacity of the pipeline is expected to be 30 billion cubic meters. It is designed to provide stable gas supply for at least 30 years.<br /><br />Liao Yongyuan, deputy general manager of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), said the project would optimise the country's energy consumption structure benefiting about 500 million people.<br /><br />As of May 28 this year, the already finished lines had delivered 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas to about 18 provincial regions and about 100 million people, Liao said.<br /><br />It is expected to help ease strained natural gas supply in the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta.</p>.<p>And it is planned to be connected with natural gas lines already in use, resulting in a network totalling 40,000 km of gas pipelines, state-run Xinhua reported. </p>