江苏名曰“水乡”,但淮北和沿海地区却严重缺水。从60年代起,江苏人民就开始了“扎根长江,引江济淮,江水北调”的伟大创举。兴建了江都水利枢纽和淮安、刘老涧、皂河等一批大型抽水站,并以苏北段大运河为输水干线,经过13级翻水,把江水送到了苏北大地的每一个地区。 Jiangsu is known as “Water Village,” but there is a serious shortage of water in Huaibei and its coastal areas. Since the 1960s, the people of Jiangsu started the great pioneering work of “rooting the Yangtze River, guiding the Yangtze River to the Yangtze River and transferring water from the river to the north.” Jiangdu Water Control Project and a number of large-scale pumping stations such as Huai’an, Liulaojian and Zaohe have been built and the Grand Canal of the Northern Jiangsu section has been used as a water mainline. After being turned into water at level 13, the river has been transported to every area of ​​the Northern Jiangsu Province .