Li Guoying, Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, said at a series of themed press conferences held by the State Council Information Office on the 13th titled "The Beginning of Authoritative Departments" that from January to August this year, 985.6 billion yuan was invested in water conservancy construction nationwide, and various new water conservancy projects were started. 23,600, with an investment of 736.1 billion yuan in water conservancy construction, both setting records for the same period in history.
On September 13, the State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences with the theme of "The Start of the Talk from Authoritative Departments", inviting Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying, Director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Water Resources Zhang Xiangwei, Director of the Department of Rural Water Conservancy and Hydropower of the Ministry of Water Resources Chen Mingzhong, and Director of the Ministry of Water Resources. Yao Wenguang, director of the Ministry of Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention Department, introduced the situation of solidly promoting high-quality development of water conservancy in the new stage and comprehensively improving national water security capabilities, and answered reporters' questions. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xin
When introducing the situation of solidly promoting the high-quality development of water conservancy in the new stage and comprehensively improving the national water security guarantee capability, Li Guoying said that from January to August this year, the construction of water conservancy projects absorbed 1.971 million people, providing a good foundation for the economic recovery. Strong support.
"The implementation of a number of major national water network projects such as the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the water resource allocation project around the Beibu Gulf, and the second phase of the Huaihe River into the sea channel have been accelerated, and the construction of provincial, municipal, and county-level water networks has been advanced in an orderly manner." Li Guoying He said that the rural water supply engineering system has been continuously improved, and the integration of urban and rural water supply, large-scale centralized water supply, and standardized construction and management of small water supply projects have been promoted according to local conditions.
Chen Mingzhong, director of the Rural Water Conservancy and Hydropower Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that from January to August this year, 98.88 billion yuan of investment in rural water supply projects has been implemented across the country, 73.65 billion yuan of construction investment has been completed, and 15,692 rural water supply projects have been started and 9,029 have been completed. , improving the water supply security level for 38.253 million rural residents.
Zhang Xiangwei, director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that the construction of backbone projects of the national water network has been significantly accelerated. While accelerating the construction progress of a number of ongoing projects such as water diversion in Central Yunnan, Dongzhuang in the Yellow River Basin, and Dateng Gorge in the Pearl River Basin, a number of major projects such as the Jilin Water Network Backbone Project and the Hebei Xiongan Main Canal on the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project have started this year.
Zhang Xiangwei said that in the next step, the Ministry of Water Resources will speed up the improvement of the river basin flood control engineering system, vigorously implement major national water network projects, accelerate the recovery of the ecological environment of rivers and lakes, promote the construction of digital twin water conservancy, establish and improve water-saving system policies, and strengthen institutional mechanisms Legal management promotes high-quality development of water conservancy in the new stage and provides a strong guarantee of water security for promoting Chinese modernization.