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People’s Daily Online, Beijing, February 24 (Ouyang Yijia) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources that as of February 24, the cumulative water diversion of the first phase of the middle line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project exceeded 70 billion cubic meters, and the direct beneficiaries of the four provinces and cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Henan exceeded 114 million.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Water Resources, since the first phase of the middle line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project was opened to water on December 12, 2014, the Ministry of Water Resources has strengthened the management of project scheduling, strengthened operation supervision, and made every effort to ensure the safety of the project, water supply and water quality, effectively alleviate the shortage of water resources along the line, and help high-quality economic and social development. In terms of optimizing the allocation of water resources, the water supply area of the project has been continuously extended, the beneficiary population has continued to increase, and the domestic water supply guarantee rate of the water-receiving cities in the middle line has increased from the minimum of less than 75% to more than 95%, and the industrial water supply guarantee rate has reached more than 90%.
The relevant person in charge of the China South-to-North Water Diversion Group said that over the past ten years, the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has been running safely and smoothly, and the water quality has reached the surface water Class II standard and above, which has effectively alleviated the problem of water shortage in the northern region, and the development constraints caused by the lack of water in the water area have been gradually reduced.
In Beijing, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and the Miyun Reservoir have achieved a “handshake”, the water supply safety factor in the central urban area has been increased from 1.0 to 1.3, and some new urban areas such as the sub-center of the city have also used “south water”, and the proportion of “south water” in urban areas has increased to nearly 80%.
In Tianjin, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project covers 15 of the 16 administrative regions, and extends urban water supply to rural areas through projects to improve the quality and efficiency of drinking water in rural areas, comprehensively improving the drinking water quality of 2,817 villages and 2.868 million rural residents.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Water Resources said that the Ministry of Water Resources will thoroughly implement the “National Water Network Construction Planning Outline”, accelerate the construction of the main skeleton and artery of the national water network, build a high-standard follow-up project to divert the river to supplement the Han River in the middle line, and improve the overall layout of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project as soon as possible, so as to provide a strong water security guarantee for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization.
