The reporter learned from China South to North Water Transfer Group Co., Ltd. on the 14th that as of May 13, the cumulative water transfer volume of the east line and middle line of the south to North Water Transfer Project had reached 53.1 billion cubic meters. Among them, 8.5 billion cubic meters of ecological water supply has been implemented for more than 50 rivers along the line, and more than 5 billion cubic meters of groundwater overexploitation has been reduced for water receiving areas.
Since the South-to-North Water Transfer Project was fully completed in 2014, south water has become the main water source for more than 140 million people in more than 280 counties and urban areas in more than 40 large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing and Tianjin.
On May 14 last year, the Symposium on promoting the high-quality development of the follow-up project of the South-to-North water transfer was held in Nanyang City, Henan Province. Jiang Xuguang, chairman of the South-to-North Water Transfer group, said that over the past year, the South-to-North Water Transfer group has solidly promoted the high-quality development of follow-up projects and accelerated the construction of the main framework and artery of the national water network.
The river diversion and Han River replenishment project is the first major project to be started in the follow-up project of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. It plays an important role in giving full play to the water transmission potential of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, enhancing the allocation capacity of water resources in the Hanjiang River Basin and improving the stability of water supply in the north water receiving area.
Jiang Xuguang said that the South-to-North Water Transfer group takes the commencement of the project of diverting water from the Yangtze River to make up the Han Dynasty as the top priority, and goes all out to promote the commencement preparations such as the establishment of project legal person, handling of pre requisites, handling of approval procedures, bidding preparation and tackling major key technologies. At present, all work is being vigorously promoted according to the established node objectives to ensure the commencement of work as soon as possible within the year.
At the Symposium on further promoting the high-quality development of the follow-up project of the South-to-North Water Transfer held on May 13, Li Guoying, Minister of water resources, said that it is necessary to accelerate the planning and construction of the follow-up project of the South-to-North Water Transfer, focus on the preliminary work of the river diversion and Han supplement project of the middle line, deepen the feasibility study and demonstration of the follow-up project of the east line, promote the planning of the west line project, and actively cooperate with the revision of the overall plan.