Ministry of Water Resources： Accelerate the construction of the main skeleton and artery of the national water network and promote the high-quality development of the follow-up project of South-to-Nor

Cctv newsOn the morning of Tuesday, September 13th, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee held a press conference on the achievements of water conservancy development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Zhang Xiangwei, director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, introduced at the meeting that the spatial and temporal distribution of water resources in our country is extremely uneven, and speeding up the construction of a national water network and a modern and high-quality water conservancy infrastructure network is an urgent need to optimize the strategic pattern of water resources in China, which is related to national development and security. We will thoroughly implement the spirit of the important speech delivered by the Supreme Leader General Secretary at the 11th meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Committee and the symposium on promoting the high-quality development of the follow-up project of South-to-North Water Diversion Project, and scientifically plan the layout of "outline, objective and knot" with the focus on networking, supplementing the network and strengthening the chain, that is, taking the natural water system of major rivers and lakes, major water diversion projects and backbone water transmission and distribution channels as the "outline" and the regional rivers and lakes as the "objective". Taking key water resources regulation and storage projects as the "knot", we will build a national water network with "complete system, safety, reliability, intensive efficiency, green intelligence, smooth circulation and orderly regulation and control", comprehensively enhance China’s water resources overall allocation capacity, flood protection capacity and strategic reserve capacity, and provide water security for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. The next step is to do a good job in four aspects:

First, speed up the construction of the main skeleton and aorta of the national water network.Around the major national strategy, based on the main streams of major rivers and key rivers and lakes, and focusing on the east, middle and west lines of South-to-North Water Transfer Project, we will scientifically promote the planning and construction of a number of major inter-basin and inter-regional water diversion projects, and continue to do a good job in the planning and demonstration of the follow-up projects of South-to-North Water Transfer Project on the basis of the already started project of diverting water from the Yangtze River to fill the Han River, so as to promote the high-quality development of the follow-up projects of South-to-North Water Transfer Project.

The second is to improve the regional water resources allocation system.Combined with the national, regional and provincial water security needs, strengthen the interconnection of major national water resources allocation projects and regional important water resources allocation projects, promote the construction of regional rivers and lakes and water diversion projects, and form a water network system of provinces, cities and counties that integrates urban and rural areas and is interconnected.

The third is to promote the construction of water source storage projects.Fully tap the storage potential of existing water source projects, accelerate the construction of key water sources within the planning, implement small and medium-sized water source projects, and enhance the urban and rural water supply guarantee capacity and the national water resources strategic reserve capacity.

The fourth is to build a digital twin water network.Taking digital scene, intelligent simulation and accurate decision-making as the path, we will vigorously promote the construction of digital water network, intelligent dispatching and automatic monitoring and early warning, and build a digital twin water network with the functions of forecasting, early warning, rehearsal and pre-planning, so as to improve the digital, networked and intelligent level of water network.