China News Agency, Beijing, April 8 (Reporter Chen Su) Recently, the State Council of China held an executive meeting and decided to start a new batch of water conservancy projects with mature conditions.
At the regular briefing on the State Council's policy on the 8th, Wei Shanzhong, vice minister of the Ministry of Water Resources of China, said that at present, the water conservancy still has an imperfect flood control engineering system in the river basin, insufficient capacity for overall allocation of water resources, heavy tasks of water ecological and water environment governance, and water conservancy infrastructure systems. It is a prominent problem that the degree of intelligentization of networking is not high.
Wei Shanzhong said that the spatial and temporal distribution of water resources in China is extremely uneven, with summer floods and winter dryness, shortages in the north and southern abundance, and frequent floods and droughts.
China has carried out large-scale water conservancy project construction. In recent years, a large number of major water conservancy projects such as the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the first phase of the East Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the Huaihe Chushandian Reservoir, and the Jiangxi Xiajiang Water Conservancy Project have been completed and brought into full play. The most extensive and most beneficial water infrastructure system.
He said that water conservancy projects play an important role in ensuring national water security, promoting coordinated regional development, stimulating effective investment demand, and promoting stable economic growth. Accelerating the construction of water conservancy infrastructure has needs, conditions and foundations.
The 2021 Central Economic Work Conference and this year's government work report will both strengthen the construction of water conservancy infrastructure as an important area for expanding domestic demand.
On March 29 this year, the executive meeting of the State Council conducted a special study on strengthening the work related to the expansion of effective investment in water conservancy project construction in 2022. The meeting pointed out that this year, a batch of projects that have been included in the plan and have mature conditions, including major water diversion projects such as the follow-up project of the South-to-North Water Diversion, will be started. Key projects such as flood control and disaster reduction, reinforcement of dangerous reservoirs, construction and reconstruction of irrigation areas, etc.
Wei Shanzhong said that these projects, together with other water conservancy projects, can complete the annual investment of about 800 billion yuan.
"The Ministry of Water Resources will work with relevant departments and localities to focus on ensuring flood control safety, water supply safety, food safety, and ecological safety, and will meet the needs of economic and social development, the preliminary technical demonstration is basically mature, there are no major differences between provinces, and local governments are more willing to promote project construction. For major water conservancy projects, speed up the review and approval, promote the construction of the project as soon as possible, raise construction funds through multiple channels, strengthen construction management and supervision and inspection, ensure the quality of the project and safe production, and ensure that the annual goals and tasks are completed on time."
Regarding the relationship between water conservancy and ecology, Zhang Xiangwei, director of the Planning and Planning Department of the Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China, said that in terms of site selection and design, the red line of ecological protection will be avoided, development intensity will be reasonably controlled, construction land and resettlement relocation will be minimized, and efforts to avoid or slow down adverse effects on ecology.
In the project feasibility study stage, strictly carry out environmental impact assessment.
In the operation and scheduling of the project, ecological scheduling is carried out to ensure the basic ecological water volume of the river.
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