China has approved dredging work on a 122km stretch of the Grand Canal in Zhejiang province, costing approximately Rmb10bn. Regarded as an important tributary of the Yangtze, the Zhejiang section of the Canal will be connected to the Qiantang River via a new shiplock so that the waterway links Zhejiang better with the waterway network in the Yangtze River Delta, the most vibrant part of the Chinese economy.