Zhongxin Finance, April 8th. On the morning of April 8th, at the State Council Information Office's regular briefing on the State Council's policies on the construction of water conservancy projects in 2022, Wei Shanzhong, vice minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, proposed that the spatial distribution of water resources in my country and the distribution of population economy , The problem of the mismatch of land and space utilization patterns has not been effectively solved, and nearly 70% of urban agglomerations, more than 90% of energy bases, and 65% of major grain producing areas have prominent water shortage problems, which has become a bottleneck for the development of these regions. , it is difficult to meet the requirements of high-quality economic and social development.

　　Wei Shanzhong said that this year, the Ministry of Water Resources will focus on two aspects of work.

The first is to promote the high-quality development of the follow-up project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. At present, the first phase of the East-Middle Route project has been completed and operated for 7 years, accumulatively supplying 51.8 billion cubic meters of water to the north.

　　According to him, more than 75% of the urban areas in Beijing drink water from the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, and almost 100% in Tianjin. Therefore, this year, in order to further improve the water volume and water supply guarantee rate of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the Ministry of Water Resources should focus on promoting the river diversion from the middle route. The preliminary work of the Buhan project will ensure that the construction will start within the year.

　　At the same time, the Ministry of Water Resources will also deepen the preliminary demonstration of the follow-up project of the eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, promote the timely construction of the project, and ensure that the project becomes a lifeline for optimizing the allocation of water resources, ensuring the safety of drinking water for the masses, restoring the ecological environment of rivers and lakes, and smoothing the economic cycle between the north and the south.

　　The second is to coordinate the promotion of other major water diversion projects.

For those whose conditions are basically mature, the Ministry of Water Resources will accelerate the construction of projects this year, such as the Guangdong water resource allocation project around the Beibu Gulf, we must speed up the construction and solve the problem of water shortage in western Guangdong as soon as possible.

For those who have a certain foundation for the preliminary work, we must speed up the progress of the preliminary work, strive to approve the project as soon as possible, and create conditions for the start of construction.

For other projects in the planning, we will also speed up the project demonstration, and continue to roll forward the construction of major water diversion projects.

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