Projects to improve traffic on Yangtze

China will dredge sections of the Yangtze River this year to deepen it and increase the amount of freight traffic that can use the waterway, a national legislator said recently.

"Projects will be carried out on the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River," said Tang Guanjun, deputy to the National People's Congress and also director of the Changhang River Administration of Navigational Affairs in Hubei province.

"We aim at forming a water network connecting more places," he said.