China's economy has experienced relative twists and turns under the disturbance of the epidemic, but the reporter from Jiandao.com learned that recently, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a series of press conferences on the theme of "China's Ten Years", introducing the achievements of water conservancy development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and answering reporters ask. Li Guoying, Minister of Water Resources, said that in the past ten years, China's flood and drought disaster prevention capabilities have achieved an overall jump, and the average annual loss of flood disasters as a percentage of GDP has dropped from 0.57% in the previous decade to 0.31%. Since 2022, 19,000 new water conservancy projects have been started across the country, a record. In the face of the worst drought since 1961 in the Yangtze River Basin in 2022, the "Special Action for Joint Operation of Reservoirs in the Yangtze River Basin for Drought Relief and Water Supply" has been implemented to ensure the safety of drinking water for 13.85 million people and the water demand for irrigation of 28.56 million mu of autumn crops.

Zhang Xiangwei, director of the Planning and Planning Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has implemented 172 and 150 major water conservancy projects. In the past ten years, the national investment in water conservancy construction has reached 6.66 trillion yuan, five times that of the previous ten years. During this period, a number of flood control backbones have been implemented in the Yangtze River Basin, such as the construction of important flood storage and detention areas in the Yangtze River Basin, flood control in the lower Yellow River, and the Xijiang Datangxia Water Control Project. The project also carried out large-scale construction of small and medium-sized rivers, and reinforcement of dangerous reservoirs. Constructed 54 cross-basin and cross-regional water diversion projects, including the first-phase project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the diversion of the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River, the Han to the Weihe River, and the Pearl River Delta water resources allocation. The designed annual water diversion volume is 64.79 billion cubic meters. The deployment ability has been significantly improved.

Yao Wenguang, director of the flood and drought disaster prevention department of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that in the past ten years, China's large rivers have basically formed a basin flood control engineering system composed of river channels, dykes, reservoirs, flood storage and detention areas, etc., and basically have the ability to defend against the largest floods that have actually occurred since the founding of the People's Republic of China. ; The annual water supply capacity of national water conservancy projects reaches 890 billion cubic meters. Through comprehensive measures such as "storage, diversion, lifting, and adjustment", the safety of urban and rural water supply can be ensured and the drought loss can be minimized. Editor / Xu Shengpeng