China News Agency, Beijing, November 30th (Reporter Chen Su) Ye Jianchun, the deputy minister of China's Ministry of Water Resources, stated on the 30th that China currently has many reservoirs close to or reaching the design life limit and plans to complete China's existing disease insurance by the end of 2025. Reinforcement of reservoirs.
At the regular policy briefing held by the State Council that day, Ye Jianchun introduced the operation of China's reservoir projects.
"Reservoir projects are vital to flood and drought disaster prevention, water supply security, and agricultural irrigation. China has more than 98,000 reservoirs, 80% of which were built in the 1950s and 1970s, including 4,700 large and medium-sized reservoirs and 94,000 small reservoirs. Many, accounting for about 95%." Ye Jianchun said that in recent years, China has invested funds to remove dangers and strengthen dangerous reservoirs to ensure the safety of the reservoirs. However, as the years go by, many reservoirs have approached or reached the designed service life, or exceeded the standard. Due to floods, earthquakes and other reasons, the project is aging and damaged, and some reservoirs are still in danger.
On November 18, the executive meeting of the State Council pointed out that this year China has suffered a relatively serious flood disaster in history. Many reservoirs, especially small reservoirs, have been affected. Strengthening the danger removal and reinforcement of dangerous reservoirs has become a top priority.
The meeting clearly requested that the existing dangerous reservoirs should be completely eliminated and reinforced before the end of 2025, and the newly emerging dangerous reservoirs should be timely eliminated and reinforced.
Ye Jianchun said that the Ministry of Water Resources has established the goals and tasks of reservoir reinforcement and operation management during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period (2021-2025). By the end of 2022, it will complete the remaining problems of the small reservoir reinforcement project. By the end of 2025, complete the existing dangerous reservoirs and the newly added dangerous reservoirs after the annual safety appraisal to ensure the safe operation of the reservoir, improve the rainwater regime monitoring and safety monitoring facilities, and improve the reservoir operation management and protection chief Effective mechanism.
Ye Jianchun said that in order to achieve the above goals, a total of nearly 100 billion yuan will be invested in five years, of which the central government will provide certain subsidies, and the local finance will establish sound and stable funding channels, and use this large area to carry out the risk removal and reinforcement of dangerous reservoirs. Take the opportunity to improve and improve the market-oriented mechanism, drive local capital and private investment, and expand effective investment.
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