Hubei will invest 100 billion yuan to build water during the 12th Five-Year Plan period

Wang Guosheng, deputy to the National People's Congress and Governor of Hubei Province, said at the Fourth Session of the Eleventh National People's Congress that the total scale of water conservancy investment in Hubei Province during the 12th Five-Year Plan period will reach 118.9 billion yuan, and this year it will strive to reach more than 20 billion yuan.

This year's Central Document No. 1 focused on water conservancy and systematically deployed the reform and development of water conservancy. Hubei, a large agricultural province and water conservancy, ushered in a historic opportunity for water conservancy development. Wang Guosheng stated that Hubei Province will use the province's efforts to promote water conservancy, increase financial special funds for water conservancy, and require provincial finance to invest more than 20 billion yuan in the next five years. The remaining part will continue to adopt "water conservancy loans, fiscal interest subsidy, and budget recovery." The way to meet the actual needs of water conservancy construction.

At present, Hubei Province has already planned more than 2,000 water projects. Through five to ten years' efforts, Hubei Province will basically complete the “four systems” of water conservancy: a well-functioning flood control and drought relief system; a rational allocation and efficient use of water resources systems; a water resources protection and water ecological health protection system; and adaptation to scientific development Water management system.

This year, all aspects of work have been carried out in an orderly manner. For example, in terms of infrastructure, do a good job in the flood control and security projects such as the comprehensive treatment of the Jingjiang Levee, and in terms of farmland water conservancy, do a good job of stems, branches, buckets, agriculture, and wool from the reservoirs to the fields. “Five-level channel construction has effectively solved the problem of the circulation of farmland irrigation. For the people’s livelihood and water conservancy, the “unsolved drinking water problem of 2 million people throughout the year” has been included in the ten practical issues of the provincial government; in terms of water ecological environment construction, attention has been focused on Wuhan Dadong Lake, Huangshi Magnetic Lake and other water ecological restoration projects.

Wang Guosheng also stated that it will establish an investment and financing platform, widely absorb social funds to invest in water conservancy, attract enterprises and institutions and private funds to participate in water conservancy construction, and widely guide farmers to voluntarily invest in work to carry out small-scale farmland water conservancy projects that they have benefited from. Daquan water conservancy, Daxing water conservancy good situation.