China - Sichuan Urban Development Project : environmental assessment (Vol. 3 of 9) : Yibin City environmental impact assessment

Page 1 1 World Bank Financed Yibin Environmental Improvement Project In Yibin City, Sichuan Province Environmental Impact Assessment Chengdu Hydropower Investigation Design & Research Institute of China Hydropower Engineering Consultant Group Corporation October, 2005 E1245 v 3 Page 2 1 Preface The Environmental Improvement Project in Yibin City, Sichuan Province is also called Binjiang ring road project for short. It consists of road project, bridge and culvert project, protective project, landscape project and drainage project. The proposed road project is an import part of the urban road network planned by the municipal government, and involves two parts, namely Line A and Line B. Line A is laid along the left banks of the Min River and the Yangtze River, extending from east to west. It starts from the Min River North Bridge and ends at Tianyuan Co., Ltd., with a total length of 6688.51 meters. Line B starts from the Cultural Square of Nan