The 14th Five-Year Plan has begun, and localities have successively announced future water conservancy construction plans. The reporter from Jiandao.com learned from the Ministry of Water Resources that the Ministry of Water Resources recently held a special scheduling meeting to promote the construction of major water conservancy projects in 2022. More than 30 new projects will be started in 2022.

Since 2022, investment in water conservancy projects has accelerated. From January to March 2022, China completed a water conservancy investment of 107.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 35%. The 11th meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Committee held on April 26 emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of network-based infrastructure such as transportation, energy, and water conservancy. Accelerate the construction of the main skeleton and arteries of the national water network, and promote the construction and modernization of key water sources, irrigation areas, and flood storage and detention areas.

According to the Ministry of Water Resources, about 800 billion yuan of investment in water conservancy projects will be completed in 2022. It will focus on advancing the preliminary work of 55 major water conservancy projects, implement more than 1,700 dangerous reservoirs for reinforcement, and implement the continued construction and modernization of about 570 large and medium-sized irrigation areas.

"Comprehensively strengthening the construction of water conservancy infrastructure is of great significance to safeguarding national security, smoothing domestic circulation, promoting domestic and international circulation, expanding domestic demand, promoting high-quality development, and stabilizing the macroeconomic fundamentals." Wei Shanzhong, Vice Minister of Water Resources, said in a statement. This scheduling meeting was emphasized. Keywords: infrastructure, infrastructure construction, domestic engineering news, planning and investment

Wei Shanzhong said that water conservancy departments at all levels should go all out to promote project approval and construction. Unswervingly stick to the goal, seize opportunities, and speed up the related work in accordance with the preliminary work schedule and the requirements of the start-up time node, and strive to complete ahead of schedule and overfulfill. It is necessary to formulate specific work plans, implement list-based management, refine and materialize the objectives and tasks of the preliminary work and the start of construction, and speed up the handling and feasibility study approval of land use pre-review, resettlement, environmental impact assessment and other elements. Editor / Xu Shengpeng