In 2011 and 2012, the national investment in water conservancy construction reached 345.2 billion yuan and 430.3 billion yuan respectively, and the total investment in the two years exceeded the total scale of water conservancy investment in the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" of 704 billion yuan, especially in 2012 the national water conservancy construction investment exceeded 400 billion yuan. Yuan, a record high level.

        The Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei stated at the meeting of the directors of the National Water Resources Department on the 28th that this year the central government will further implement the policies and measures for promoting water and benefiting the people. Reinforcement tasks for 5,400 key small (1) type dangerous reservoirs have basically completed the treatment of 2,209 key small and medium-sized rivers and important river sections. The conditions of rural water conservancy infrastructure continued to improve, the construction of key water conservancy projects was accelerated in an all-round way, and the strict water resources management system was gradually implemented.

        Chen Lei pointed out that the current implementation of my country’s central government’s policy of rejuvenating water and benefiting the people needs to be further increased, the pace of people’s livelihood water conservancy construction needs to be further accelerated, water conservancy weak links need to be further consolidated, the reform of key water conservancy areas needs to be further deepened, and the grassroots water conservancy service system and capacity building need Further strengthen.

        It is understood that in the future, the Ministry of Water Resources will strengthen the weak links of flood control, expand the construction of farmland water conservancy, promote the connection of rivers, lakes and reservoirs, strengthen conservation and protection of water and soil resources, expand urban water conservancy work, strengthen water conservancy social management, improve water conservancy service systems, and improve water conservancy policy systems. Strive to complete the management tasks of more than 5,000 small and medium-sized rivers by 2015, and complete the risk removal and reinforcement tasks of dangerous reservoirs and large and medium-sized dangerous sluices in the plan by the end of 2015, and ensure the effectiveness of new farmland during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period The irrigation area is 40 million mu.

        (Source: Xinhua News Agency)