In the first year of the "15th Five Year Plan", as a "water conservancy province" that has invested over 100 billion yuan in water conservancy for three consecutive years, Guangdong is planning a more ambitious new blueprint for "moistening southern Guangdong with water". Standing at a new starting point, a water management and revitalization practice with over 700 billion yuan investment as the engine, coordinated development and safety, and integrated traditional engineering and digital intelligence will soon be fully launched on this Lingnan land.

Build a backbone water network worth 700 billion yuan

The Guangdong Provincial Department of Water Resources has clarified that it will accelerate the implementation of a batch of major water conservancy projects with a total investment of over 700 billion yuan during the 15th Five Year Plan period. These projects aim to lay the foundation, benefit the long-term, and benefit the people's livelihood, and optimize the overall layout of the province's "Five Verticals and Five Horizontals, Hundred Rivers and Hundred Hubs" water network construction, fully creating the "Water Runs Southern Guangdong" water management brand. It is expected that in the next five years, Guangdong's water conservancy investment will continue to maintain a large scale and high level, providing strong support for stable investment and expectations in the province's economy, and becoming a new engine for promoting high-quality development. In terms of specific project layout, precise zoning measures will be implemented: in the Pearl River Delta, the focus will be on ensuring water quality and safety resilience; In western Guangdong, we will make every effort to promote the largest provincial investment in the Guangdong Water Resources Allocation Project around the Beibu Gulf since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and systematically solve the problem of drought in the Leizhou Peninsula; In eastern Guangdong, water system connectivity and reservoir expansion are used to enhance the ability to cope with extreme drought. At the same time, the province will establish a "dual water source, dual guarantee" water supply pattern for cities at or above the county level, and focus on improving the level of rural water supply guarantee, allowing urban and rural residents to drink high-quality water together.

Building a Strong Barrier of Disaster Prevention and Reduction Wisdom

In terms of coordinated development and security, Guangdong Water Resources will focus on building a more resilient water and drought disaster prevention system. In terms of engineering measures, we will accelerate the construction of a number of flood control reservoirs, implement the management of major rivers and the consolidation and upgrading of embankments in the Greater Bay Area. More importantly, we will vigorously build a smart perception and early warning system that integrates the sky and the earth. Specifically, it includes continuing to promote the construction of dozens of water conservancy rain measurement radars to capture "rain in the clouds", implementing "rainfall stations in villages and towns" to monitor "landing rain", promoting "hydrological stations in towns and villages" to monitor "river water", and forming a three-dimensional monitoring network. At the same time, we will strictly implement the "456" water conservancy early warning mechanism, which covers 4 types of early warning, consolidates 5 types of responsible parties, and facilitates 6 channels of release, to ensure that early warning information reaches the grassroots end and fully protect the safety of people's lives and property. Keywords: Water Conservancy News and Information, Water Conservancy News Network

Digital Empowerment and Reform Breakthrough

Looking towards the future, Guangdong Water Resources will focus on developing new quality productive forces and driving modernization of water resources through technological innovation and institutional reform. At the technological level, we will comprehensively build a digital twin water conservancy system, achieve full coverage of digital twins for major rivers, the Greater Bay Area water network, and new major projects, deeply implement the "artificial intelligence+water conservancy" action, and enhance the intelligent flood control scheduling and engineering intelligent operation and management capabilities. At the reform level, the core is to solve the funding problem, fully promote the listing of water conservancy REITs projects, explore and promote comprehensive development models such as WOD, and guide social capital participation. At the same time, we will deepen the market-oriented reform of water rights, pilot the assetization, market-oriented allocation, and intelligent management of water resources in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, and promote the paid utilization of river and lake shoreline resources and the realization of the value of aquatic ecological products, stimulate the vitality of the water resources factor market, and inject new momentum into the sustainable development of water resources.Editor/Gao Xue