10-year plan to conserve water
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January 31, 2011, Monday
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CHINA is to employ strict water resource management measures to fight shortages, Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei has said.
The measures will focus on three "red lines" adopted to limit the scale of water exploitation, to improve the efficiency of water usage, and to curb water pollution, Chen told a press conference yesterday after the central authority issued its first document of the year on Saturday.
China will intensify efforts to accelerate the development of the nation's water conservancy and promote the sustainable use of water resources, said the document, known as the No. 1 document, which usually reflects government priorities each year.
The No. 1 document sets targets to improve China's relatively backward water conservancy situation over the next five to 10 years, Chen said.
A core policy is the use of 10 percent of land-transfer fees - about 60 to 80 billion yuan (US$9.12 billion to US$12.16 billion) each year - to boost agricultural conservancy construction.
China's water consumption should be controlled within 670 billion cubic meters by 2020, the document said.
China's average water resources per capita are just 28 percent of the global average, or 2,200 cubic meters.
The document said China will add to its annual input in water conservancy - double the volume in 2010 - in the next 10 years.
China's water conservancy input was 200 billion yuan last year and a double volume will mean 400 billion yuan each year or 4 trillion yuan in the next 10 years, Chen said.
China suffers a water shortage of 40 billion cubic-meters annually, with two thirds of cities having trouble accessing water, Chen said.
Water safety problems have been tackled for 210 million rural residents and existing rural water problems will be solved by 2013, with new problems being tackled by the end of the 12th Five-year Plan period (2011-2015), the minister said.
North China wheat-growing regions, including Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Shanxi and Jiangsu provinces, have had little rain since October.
The measures will focus on three "red lines" adopted to limit the scale of water exploitation, to improve the efficiency of water usage, and to curb water pollution, Chen told a press conference yesterday after the central authority issued its first document of the year on Saturday.
China will intensify efforts to accelerate the development of the nation's water conservancy and promote the sustainable use of water resources, said the document, known as the No. 1 document, which usually reflects government priorities each year.
The No. 1 document sets targets to improve China's relatively backward water conservancy situation over the next five to 10 years, Chen said.
A core policy is the use of 10 percent of land-transfer fees - about 60 to 80 billion yuan (US$9.12 billion to US$12.16 billion) each year - to boost agricultural conservancy construction.
China's water consumption should be controlled within 670 billion cubic meters by 2020, the document said.
China's average water resources per capita are just 28 percent of the global average, or 2,200 cubic meters.
The document said China will add to its annual input in water conservancy - double the volume in 2010 - in the next 10 years.
China's water conservancy input was 200 billion yuan last year and a double volume will mean 400 billion yuan each year or 4 trillion yuan in the next 10 years, Chen said.
China suffers a water shortage of 40 billion cubic-meters annually, with two thirds of cities having trouble accessing water, Chen said.
Water safety problems have been tackled for 210 million rural residents and existing rural water problems will be solved by 2013, with new problems being tackled by the end of the 12th Five-year Plan period (2011-2015), the minister said.
North China wheat-growing regions, including Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Shanxi and Jiangsu provinces, have had little rain since October.
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