I still remember that on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in 2013, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader braved the cold and came to the land of Longyuan. At Magang’s home in party member, an old village in Yuan Gudui, the general secretary saw the water tank in the house and deliberately scooped up a ladle of water to taste it carefully. The bitter and salty taste made him frown. Later, the General Secretary made a special trip to Weiyuan County to inspect the water diversion project site, and said eight words to the local and accompanying responsible comrades of relevant state ministries and commissions, "People’s livelihood is paramount and water control is important".
△ On February 3, 2013, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited the needy people in Yuangudui Village, Tianjiahe Township, Weiyuan County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province. The picture shows the General Secretary having a cordial conversation with Ma Gang, an old party member, to learn about the production and living conditions.
Whether the water problem is solved well or not is directly related to the people’s sense of acquisition, happiness and security.
Summer flood and winter drought, lack of abundant resources in the north and extremely uneven distribution of water resources in time and space have always been the basic water situation in China, and building a national water network is the fundamental measure to solve the uneven distribution of water resources in time and space in China.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has stood at the strategic height of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, put forward the idea of "giving priority to water conservation, balancing space, systematically managing and exerting strength with both hands", established the national "river strategy" and made plans for major projects of the national water network.
The key to building a national water network is to get through the aorta.
From Jiangdu Water Control Project on the East Line of South-to-North Water Transfer Project to Taocha Canal Head Project on the Middle Line, from the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River to Wangjiaba Sluice on the Huaihe River, the General Secretary visited several key water conservancy projects of the national water network. He said earnestly: "Accelerate the construction of the main skeleton and artery of the national water network to provide a strong water security guarantee for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way."."
With the completion of major water diversion projects such as the first phase of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the cross-basin and cross-regional water network pattern in China has gradually taken shape. By January 12, 2024, the first phase of the East and Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project had transferred more than 68 billion cubic meters of water, benefiting 44 large and medium-sized cities along the route and directly benefiting more than 176 million people.
In addition to the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, in recent years, a number of major water diversion projects have been reported frequently.
In January 2021, the first phase of the water resources allocation project in northern Hubei was opened to water. The project takes Danjiangkou Reservoir as the water source, and the whole line draws water by itself, supplying water to 4.82 million people in 3 cities and 7 counties along the northern Hubei region and irrigating 3.8 million mu of cultivated land, effectively alleviating the serious shortage of water resources in the northern Hubei region.
In December, 2022, the water diversion project from Yangtze River to Huaihe River was put into trial operation, and the Yangtze River and Huaihe River achieved a historic "hand in hand". The water supply scope of the Yangtze River-Huaihe River Diversion Project covers 55 counties (cities, districts) in 15 cities in Anhui and Henan provinces, with a total length of 723 kilometers and a benefit range of 70,600 square kilometers, benefiting more than 50 million people in northern Anhui and eastern Henan.
△ Xijiang River goes underground to moisten Greater Bay Area. The water resources allocation project in the Pearl River Delta starts from Liyuzhou, the main stream of Xijiang River in Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong Province in the west, crosses Shiziyang and reaches Gongming Reservoir in Shenzhen in the east. It is a long-distance pressurized water transfer project with the largest flow in the world.
On January 30, 2024, the Pearl River Delta water resources allocation project, a major national water conservancy project and a national water network backbone project, was opened to water. With a total length of 113.2 kilometers, the project can deliver 1.708 billion cubic meters of water to Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area every year, benefiting more than 32 million people along the route, solving the water shortage problem in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan and other places, and building a multi-water source guarantee system in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
To build a national water network, we need to work hard to smooth the microcirculation.
In January, 2017, on the eve of the Spring Festival of the Lunar New Year, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader came to Desheng Village, Zhangbei County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, braving the cold of April and September. He walked into the homes of poor households and asked with concern where the water used by the villagers came from.
In January 2020, on the eve of the Spring Festival of the Lunar New Year, the General Secretary came to Yunnan to visit and express condolences to the cadres and masses of all ethnic groups. In the kitchen of Li Fashun, a villager in Tengchong, three village, he turned on the tap and nodded when he saw the clear tap water rushing out.
A warm-hearted inquiry and careful examination again and again embodies the people’s leaders’ concern about the villagers’ water use.
In order to solve the problem of drinking water safety in rural areas, in recent years, Chinese has traveled all over remote areas and deep mountains that have never been touched before, looking for water sources and repairing channels.
△ By 2020, the problem of drinking water safety for poor people in China has been comprehensively solved, and the people’s sense of gain and happiness has been significantly improved.
In Linxia Dongxiang Autonomous County, Gansu Province, under the complex terrain such as collapsible loess, ditches and steep mountains, more than 7,200 kilometers of pipelines cover the whole county.dredgedredgeClear water flowed into the homes of more than 300,000 Dongxiang people. The villagers bid farewell to the days when water was carried by donkeys and stored in water cellars, and earth-shaking changes have taken place in the mountain villages of the county.
In Guyuan Mountain Area of Ningxia, starting from the reservoir in Jingyuan County, the clear pulse has passed through six pumping stations, raising the water more than 600 meters high, so that a small village with more than 700 people 230 kilometers away can also drink tap water at any time.
In order to strengthen the "capillary" construction of national water network, in 2023, the state made great efforts to open the "last mile" of water network construction.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Water Resources, in 2023, the penetration rate of tap water in rural areas in China reached 90%, and the proportion of rural population covered by large-scale water supply projects reached 60%.
"Ask the canal that clear? Because there is a source of living water. " Overlooking the land of China, a national water network based on natural rivers and lakes, with water diversion and drainage projects as channels and storage projects as nodes, is accelerating construction, and a "water of happiness" is flowing into thousands of households from all directions, nourishing a better life.