Sept 15 — China announced the Pinglu Canal navigation area. The canal’s
inland-river section from the start point to the river–sea boundary — from the
Pingtang river mouth in Hengzhou, Nanning, to the Qinjiang Bridge on the G75
Lanhai Expressway — is provisionally designated as an 'inland river Class B'
navigation area. The decision completes the navigation-area system for the first
river-to-sea canal in China since the founding of the PRC.