Construction of a desalination project that will deliver purified seawater to Beijing from its neighboring Hebei Province's coast will start at the end of the year, local authorities announced on April 16.

The project will be located in Caofeidian, the second largest port in Hebei, with a daily desalination capacity of 1 million tons of seawater, said Wang Xiaoshui, director of the seawater desalination department of Beijing Enterprises Water Group Ltd.

After the project goes into operation in 2019, Beijing will receive more than 300 million cubic meters of desalted Bohai seawater annually, about 10 percent of its current water consumption volume.

"Beijing residents will be able to enjoy desalinated seawater," said Wang.

The project will include a facility and a 270-km-long pipeline extending to Beijing.