After the Second Plenary Session of the Fifth Session of the 13th National People's Congress, the "Minister's Channel" interview activity was held, and some heads of relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council who attended the meeting were invited to be interviewed through online video.
All Media Reporter from Rule of Law Daily: The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the river and lake chief system, and the establishment, improvement and strengthening of the river and lake chief system have also been written into the documents of the Fifth and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the 19th Central Committee of the Party.
Excuse me, how is the implementation of this innovative water management system?
Has the expected goal been achieved?
Li Guoying, Minister of Water Resources: The river and lake chief system is a major reform initiative personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping. It is a major institutional innovation officially approved by the Party Central Committee.
This system starts from safeguarding the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people, aims to solve the water disasters, water resources, water ecology and water environment issues that the masses are most concerned about, most directly and most realistically, and satisfies the people’s eagerness for clear waters and lush mountains. look forward to.
Therefore, the construction and implementation of this system has been widely supported and responded positively by party committees and governments at all levels and the people from all walks of life.
At present, the construction and implementation of this system has achieved remarkable results in at least three aspects.
First, the responsibility system is fully established.
All regions have comprehensively established a responsibility system for the protection, governance and management of rivers and lakes with the party and government leadership responsibility system as the core, and 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country have the main responsible comrades of the party committee and government as the provincial chief river chief.
At the provincial, city, county and township levels, 300,000 river and lake chiefs have been established, and village-level river and lake chiefs have been established, including 900,000 river patrolmen and river guards.
Now it can be said that basically every river and every lake in our country is managed and protected by someone.
Second, the working mechanism has been continuously improved.
At the national level, the inter-ministerial joint meeting system for the full implementation of the river and lake chief system has been established and improved. The leading comrades of the State Council serve as the convener, and 18 member units cooperate closely to strengthen the overall planning and organizational leadership of the national river and lake chief system.
The Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Haihe River, the Pearl River, the Songhua River, the Liaohe River, and the Taihu Lake have established a provincial-level joint meeting mechanism for river and lake chiefs. The river basin is a unit, and the upstream and downstream, left and right banks, main and tributaries are coordinated, and the joint prevention, control and joint governance mechanism has also been formed.
The river chief offices have been established at the provincial, city and county levels to establish and improve the inter-departmental linkage and coordination mechanism within their respective jurisdictions.
Third, the appearance of rivers and lakes continued to improve.
All localities give full play to the advantages and positive effects of the river and lake chief system, and, in response to prominent problems such as water disasters, water resources, water ecology, and water environment in rivers and lakes, take measures according to local conditions, prescribe the right medicine, take precise measures, rectify the chaos in rivers and lakes, and manage and control them in accordance with the law Water space, strictly protect water resources, speed up the restoration of water ecology, vigorously control water pollution, historical changes have taken place in the appearance of rivers and lakes, more and more rivers and lakes have returned to life, more and more river basins have returned to life, and more and more rivers and lakes have returned to life. Many rivers and lakes have become happy rivers and lakes that benefit the people.
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