The 25,0 Km Pinglu Tunnel, part of a gigantic water supply project designed to supply China's dry regions with water from the "Yellow River," was completed after five years of construction. The 50-million-euro project awarded to the Austrian ALPINE construction company employed up to 400 workers on the construction site in China. The 85,000 concrete segments used to line the tunnel were produced in a prefabricated component plant specially built for this purpose.

The tunnel boring machine has drilled through the mountain pervaded with 25 kilometers of fault zone since September 2006. The Pinglu Tunnel is the longest tunnel in the world built with a single tunnel boring machine. It took the ALPINE crew 90 minutes to reach their workplace inside the mountain at the end of the excavation work.

ALPINE has built gigantic pumping stations for the water transfer project since 1997

ALPINE already provided services for the Chinese "Yellow River Diversion Project" at the end of the 1990s. The water from the Yellow River must be pumped 364 meters over the river's water level before it can flow a distance of 167 kilometers to the dry regions of the Chinese Shanxi Province. ALPINE built two pumping stations for this purpose between 1997 and 2001 having a length of 165 meters, a width of 18 meters and a height of 39 meters.