The reporter learned from China's South-to-North Water Transfer Group that on December 21, the 2025-2026 ice age water transfer project officially started on December 21, and is expected to end in February 2026. As a strategic infrastructure to alleviate the serious shortage of water resources in northern China, during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the East Line project successfully completed ice water transportation tasks for 5 consecutive years, with a cumulative total of about 961 million cubic meters of water transfer during the ice period, which strongly ensured the stability of water supply in extreme cold weather, guaranteed the domestic, industrial, agricultural and ecological water needs of regions along the route, and effectively solved the problem of water scarcity in winter and spring.

The reporter learned from China's South-to-North Water Transfer Group that on December 21, the 2025-2026 ice age water transfer project officially started on December 21, and is expected to end in February 2026. As a strategic infrastructure to alleviate the serious shortage of water resources in northern China, during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the East Line project successfully completed ice water transportation tasks for 5 consecutive years, with a cumulative total of about 961 million cubic meters of water transfer during the ice period, which strongly ensured the stability of water supply in extreme cold weather, guaranteed the domestic, industrial, agricultural and ecological water needs of regions along the route, and effectively solved the problem of water scarcity in winter and spring.