On April 8, the State Council Information Office held a regular policy briefing.

At the meeting, Wei Shanzhong, vice minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, introduced that in 2022, the construction and modernization of large and medium-sized irrigation areas will continue to be promoted to ensure national food security.

  Specific measures include implementing the renovation of about 90 large-scale irrigation areas and more than 480 medium-sized irrigation areas, improving irrigation water source projects, canal engineering and measurement and monitoring facilities, promoting standardized and standardized management, and restoring and improving the irrigation area of ​​more than 25 million mu.

At the same time, link up with the construction of high-standard farmland, give priority to building these large and medium-sized irrigation areas into high-standard farmland, and select some qualified large and medium-sized irrigation areas to create a batch of modern digital irrigation areas.

(Reporter Lang Jiahui)

Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]