On May 14, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on advancing the high-quality development of the follow-up project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in Nanyang City, Henan Province and made an important speech, and emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly analyze the new situation and tasks faced by the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, and fully, accurately and fully implement the new situation. Development philosophy, in accordance with the requirements of high-quality development, overall development and safety, adhere to the water management thinking of giving priority to water saving, spatial balance, systematic governance, and two-handed efforts, and follow the principles of demonstrating major water conservancy projects with real needs, ecological safety, and sustainability. The entire river basin and water resources are allocated in a balanced manner, scientifically advance project planning and construction, and improve the level of intensive and economical utilization of water resources.

  Standing on the strategic overall and long-term development of the party and the country, General Secretary Xi Jinping fully affirmed the significance of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, deeply analyzed the new situation and tasks faced by the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, and pointed the way for the high-quality development of the follow-up projects of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. , Drew a blueprint for ecological environmental protection and sustainable economic and social development.

  Send a stream of clear water north to nourish future generations.

As a backbone project for cross-basin and cross-regional allocation of water resources, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has benefited hundreds of millions of people, effectively alleviating the extremely unbalanced temporal and spatial distribution of water resources such as "the shortage of North and Nanfeng", and has made fundamental contributions to safeguarding and improving people's livelihood. , Providing lasting momentum for promoting sustainable economic and social development.

  The South-to-North Water Diversion is a large-scale systematic project, and it is also a model project of harmony between people and water, sharing of resources, and coordinated development of north and south.

General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly summarized the six valuable experiences accumulated over the years of project implementation: adhere to the national game of chess, concentrate efforts on major events, respect objective laws, plan overall guidance, value water conservation and pollution control, and accurately and accurately adjust water, so as to do a good job for us. Project planning and construction provide a fundamental follow.

We must use this as a "water level gauge", based on the dynamic evolution of social contradictions and development processes, use system thinking, strengthen top-level design, optimize strategic arrangements, innovate systems and mechanisms, and continuously raise the "water level" of ecological civilization, including water security. .

  Entering a new stage of development, water resources, as a basic natural resource and a strategic economic resource, have more supportive significance in the formation of a unified national market and a smooth domestic cycle.

Continue to scientifically advance the implementation of water transfer projects. Conceptually, we must strengthen ecological and environmental protection, especially the protection of water resources along the line, and handle the relationship between open source and throttling, stock and increment, time and space with a systematic concept, so that the project can be integrated Maximize benefits; strategically, it is necessary to follow the law, study and judge the long-term supply and demand trends, regional distribution, and structural characteristics of water resources, scientifically determine the scale and overall layout of the project, accelerate the construction of the main skeleton and main arteries of the national water network, and comprehensively improve the water security capacity; In terms of management, under the premise of comprehensively saving water and strengthening the rigid constraints of water resources, we must coordinate and strengthen demand and supply management, water source areas must "draw a hard lever", water receiving areas must "tighten the tap", and resolutely maintain the ecological "red line" And safety "bottom line".

  The South-to-North Water Diversion Project is in the contemporary era and will benefit the future.

All regions and departments must deeply understand the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech, firmly promote the high-quality development of the follow-up project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project with a high sense of political responsibility and a sense of historical mission, properly handle the relationship between development and protection, and continuously improve the well-being of the people, and ultimately achieve ecological benefits. The economic and social benefits are unified, and man and nature coexist harmoniously.