Agricultural waterway upgrading and improvement projects in early farmland consolidation zones are multi-year projects. Taking 2015 as an example, the planning stage was from June, 2015 to January, 2016, while the design stage was from February, 2016 until the end of April, 2016, and the construction stage is from approximately July, 2016 (after contracting) untilthecompletion and acceptance at the end of April, 2017 (to be decided depending on each work area).