Promote the high-quality development of water conservancy in the new stage
Comprehensively improve the national water security capability
——Written on the occasion of “World Water Day” and “China Water Week” in 2022
Li Guoying, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources
March 22 is the 30th “World Water Day”, and the publicity activities of the 35th “China Water Week” are also launched at the same time. The United Nations has determined that the theme of this year’s “World Water Day” is “Cherish Groundwater, Cherish Hidden Resources”, and the theme of my country’s commemoration of this year’s “World Water Day” and “China Water Week” is “Promoting the comprehensive management of groundwater overexploitation and revitalizing the ecological environment of rivers and lakes.” “.
Water is the mother of all things, the foundation of survival and the source of civilization. Water conservancy concerns the overall strategic situation, long-term development, and people’s well-being. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has had a profound insight into my country’s national conditions and water conditions. From the strategic height of realizing the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, he has put forward the water control idea of ”water saving priority, space balance, systematic governance, and two-handed efforts”, and established the The country’s “River Strategy” deploys and promotes the construction of major water conservancy projects such as the high-quality development of the follow-up project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, providing a powerful ideological weapon and scientific action guide for water control in the new era. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core coordinated the promotion of water disaster prevention, water resource conservation, water ecological protection and restoration, and water environment governance, and carried out a series of fundamental, pioneering, and long-term work, and wrote the Chinese nation’s efforts to control water and secure the state and promote water conservancy. A new chapter for the people. In terms of groundwater protection and governance and ecological protection of rivers and lakes, through the implementation of national water-saving actions, strengthening rigid constraints on water resources, comprehensively establishing the river and lake chief system, and promoting the implementation of a number of major water diversion projects across basins and regions, my country’s water resources utilization methods Realize deep-level changes, achieve overall optimization of water resources allocation pattern, and achieve historic improvement in the appearance of rivers and lakes. The comprehensive control of groundwater overexploitation in North China has achieved remarkable results. By the end of 2021, the shallow groundwater level in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei governance area will increase by 1.89 meters compared with the same period in 2018, and the deep groundwater level will rise by 4.65 meters on average. The ecological water level guarantee rate has reached 100%, and many rivers such as Chaobai River and Hutuo River are connected across the board. More and more rivers are returning to “life”, more and more river basins are returning to life, and more and more rivers and lakes have become happy rivers and lakes that benefit the people.
Water safety is a fundamental issue for survival. The danger of rivers and water sources is a danger to the living environment and the survival of a nation. We must pay attention to solving the problem of water safety. Restricted by special natural geographical and climatic conditions and economic and social development conditions, coupled with the dynamic evolution of water resources in river basins and regions, my country’s water resources, water ecology and water environment carrying capacity are still facing constraints. The hidden danger of disaster risk is still a serious challenge that must be fully addressed. We must thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s “water conservation priority, spatial balance, systematic governance, and two-handed efforts” water control ideas and the spirit of the instructions and instructions in his important speech on water control, complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, overall development and safety, and promote new In the high-quality development of water conservancy at the stage, efforts should be made to improve the ability to prevent floods and droughts, the ability to use water resources intensively and economically, the ability to optimize the allocation of water resources, and the ability to protect and manage the ecology of large rivers and lakes, so as to provide a strong water security guarantee for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
The first is to improve the flood control engineering system in the basin.Adhere to the supremacy of the people and life, thoroughly implement the concept of “two persistences and three transformations” in disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, make up for the shortcomings of disaster early warning and monitoring, make up for the shortcomings of disaster prevention infrastructure, and comprehensively build a line of defense against floods and droughts. Taking the river basin as a unit, construct a modern flood control engineering system mainly composed of river channels, embankments, reservoirs, and flood storage and detention areas, improve standards, optimize layout, and comprehensively enhance flood control and disaster reduction capabilities. Accelerate the construction of river control projects, speed up the reinforcement of dangerous reservoirs, and improve the capacity of flood regulation and storage. Implement the construction of dykes on the main streams of large rivers and lakes and the improvement of river courses, strengthen the management of major tributaries and small and medium-sized rivers, strictly control the flood discharge space of rivers and lakes, and improve the flood discharge capacity of river courses. Speed up the optimization and adjustment of the layout of flood storage and detention areas, implement the safety construction of flood storage and detention areas, and ensure that they can play a key role at critical moments.
The second is to implement major national water network projects.Adhere to a national game of chess, scientifically plan the overall layout of the national water network, follow the principle of demonstration of major water conservancy projects that are truly necessary, ecologically safe, and sustainable, and take natural river and lake water systems, major water diversion projects, and backbone water transmission and distribution channels as the key link. For the purpose of regional river and lake water system connectivity projects and water supply channels, and end with water resource regulation and storage projects with control functions, speed up the construction of a country with “complete systems, safe and reliable, intensive and efficient, green and intelligent, smooth circulation, and orderly regulation”. Water network, coordinately promote the construction of provincial water network, and comprehensively enhance my country’s overall water resources allocation capacity, water supply guarantee capacity, and strategic reserve capacity. Improve the rural water supply engineering network according to local conditions, strengthen the construction of modern irrigation areas, and open up the “last mile” of the national water network.
The third is to revive the ecological environment of rivers and lakes.Focusing on improving the quality and stability of water ecosystems, establish the concept of ecological civilization that respects nature, conforms to nature, and protects nature, adheres to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand, strengthens ecological management and restoration of rivers and lakes, and implements river and lake water systems. Comprehensive rectification, carry out the mother river recovery operation, implement “one river, one policy” and “one lake, one policy”, maintain the healthy life of rivers and lakes, and realize the sustainable utilization of river and lake functions. We will further promote the governance of groundwater over-exploitation, carry out a new round of comprehensive governance of groundwater over-exploitation in North China, and continue to accelerate the recovery of the ecological environment of rivers and lakes in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Scientifically allocate engineering measures, plant measures, and farming measures, steadily promote comprehensive control of soil erosion, and improve water conservation capabilities.
The fourth is to promote the construction of smart water conservancy.In accordance with the requirements of “demand traction, application first, digital empowerment, and ability enhancement”, with digitization, networking, and intelligence as the main line, comprehensively promote the construction of computing data, algorithms, and computing power, and accelerate the construction of digital twin watersheds and digital twin water conservancy projects. Aiming at all elements of physical watersheds and the whole process of water conservancy management and management, build a water conservancy perception network and digital scenarios that integrate sky, air and ground, realize multi-dimensional, multi-space-time-scale intelligent simulation of digital twin watersheds, and build systems with forecasting, early warning, rehearsal, The smart water conservancy system with the preplan function supports scientific and precise decision-making, and realizes the transformation of water safety risks from passive response to active prevention and control.
Fifth, establish and improve water-saving system policies.Adhere to the priority of water saving and the amount of water, fully implement the principle of “four waters and four determinations”, promote the total management of water resources, scientific allocation, comprehensive conservation and recycling, strictly manage water resources, and make good use of water resources . Strengthen the rigid constraints of water resources, strictly control the total amount of water resources development and utilization, strictly manage water-saving indicators, strictly control the ecological flow and double control of groundwater levels and water levels, and strictly control water resources in planning and construction projects, and water-saving evaluation. Improve the initial water rights allocation and water rights trading system, promote the market-based trading of water rights, innovate and improve the water price formation mechanism, further promote the reform of water resources tax, and establish and improve water conservation systems and policies. In-depth implementation of national water-saving actions, strengthening water-saving quota management and water efficiency standard supervision, promoting contract water-saving management and water-saving certification, deepening agricultural water-saving and efficiency-enhancing, industrial water-saving and emission reduction, urban water-saving and loss reduction, and construction saving. Water-based society, and comprehensively improve the level of intensive conservation and safe use of water resources.
Sixth, strengthen the legal management of water conservancy systems and mechanisms.Strengthen the system of river and lake chiefs, compress the responsibilities of river and lake chiefs at all levels, continue to clean up and rectify outstanding problems in rivers and lakes, ensure smooth flow of rivers and floods, and maintain the integrity of river and lake ecological spaces. Adhere to the concept of river basin system, and strengthen unified planning, unified management, unified scheduling and unified management of river basins. Improve the system of water laws and regulations, establish a cross-regional and cross-departmental joint mechanism for water administrative law enforcement, strengthen the connection between water administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, and coordinate with procuratorial public interest litigation, and promote the protection and governance of large rivers and lakes in accordance with the law. Adhere to the synergy between the role of the government and the market mechanism, deepen the reform of key areas and key links such as diversified water conservancy investment and financing, the value realization mechanism of aquatic ecological products, and the compensation mechanism for water flow ecological protection, accelerate the cracking of institutional and institutional obstacles that restrict the development of water conservancy, and improve adaptation The high-quality development of the water governance system, mechanism and legal system provides a strong water security guarantee for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
Source: People’s Daily March 22, 2022