Construction will start in March 2011. According to information released on the official website of the Xiushui County Government, the Jiujiang Xiushui Sky Eye refers to a large-scale telescope project located in Xiushui County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. Its official start date was March 2011. The project is led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a total investment of approximately It is worth 1 billion yuan and was completed in September 2016 with a construction period of 5.5 years. The Jiujiang Xiushui Sky Eye is one of the important projects of the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its main purpose is to detect important astronomical phenomena such as dark matter, dark energy, and gravitational waves in the universe.