National Water Network Construction for Serving the Chinese Path to Modernization:Development Direction and Strategic Approach
The national water network is an important foundation and support for ensuring the national water security,which is also one of the forerunner field for comprehensively building a socialist modern country.On the basis of summarizing the development course and main achievements of China's water conservancy construction,this paper analyzes the geographical effect of the construction of national water network,the requirements and objectives of the construction of national water network in Chinese modernization,and puts forward the strategic approach to promote the construction of Chinese modern national water network.The results are as following:1)Since the reform and opening-up,the development of water infrastructure has experienced four stages:policy adjustment stage,management transformation stage,livelihoods development stage,and institutional guarantee stage.In 2023,the development of water infrastructure was at the stage of overall planning,formed significant economic,social,ecological and security benefits.2)The basic requirement of the Chinese path to modernization for the national water network construction is to alleviate the bottleneck constraints of water resource shortage,water environmental pollution and water ecological damage faced by the ecological civilization construction and the high-quality development of economic and social development,and to form a national water security system compatible with the socialist modernization.3)In the future,China should base on the whole basin and the spatial balance of water resources,systematically coordinate the whole process of water management,promote the"one network"construction of the national water network between basins and at different levels,optimize the man-water relationship and man-land areal system,and provide a strong water security guarantee for the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country.
national water networkgeographical effecttrans-regional trans-watershedwater resources allocationwater infrastructuresystem governanceChinese path to modernization