In the first July, my country ’s completion of water conservancy construction investment increased by 71.4% year -on -year

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 10 (Reporter Liu Shiping) Liu Weiping, deputy minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, said on the 10th that important progress has been made in my country's water conservancy infrastructure construction since this year. As of the end of July, the investment in water conservancy construction was 567.5 billion yuan, an increase of 71.4%over the same period last year.

Liu Weiping said at the progress of the construction and results of the construction and results held by the Ministry of Water Resources that as of the end of July, 25 new water conservancy projects started; 31,800 water conservancy projects were built, The number of employees is 1.61 million.

"Rural water conservancy is the key area of ​​water conservancy infrastructure construction. Rural water supply safety is related to hundreds of millions of people's livelihood. Large and medium -sized irrigation areas are the infrastructure guarantee of Chinese rice bowls." Liu Weiping said that since this year, the Ministry of Water Resources has strengthened deployment and promoted. Large funds support, implement account management, strengthen supervision and guidance, and make every effort to promote the construction and modernization of rural water supply, large and medium -sized irrigation areas.

Statistics show that as of the end of July, there were 46.6 billion yuan in rural water supply project construction in various places, more than twice the same period of the same period last year; 10905 rural water supply projects have started, which has increased the level of water supply guarantee of 25.31 million rural population; rural water supply project maintenance and maintenance The investment was 2.51 billion yuan, 67,000 maintenance and maintenance projects were completed, and 130 million people were serving the rural population.

In terms of large and medium -sized irrigation districts, the construction and transformation have completed 17.8 billion yuan. The State Council has clearly started 3 newly -built large -scale irrigation districts that have been promoted by this year.

Liu Weiping said that in the next step, the Ministry of Water Conservancy will anchored the annual goal of the year and continues to promote the construction of water conservancy projects. At the same time, the implementation of the construction and reconstruction projects of rural water supply, large and medium -sized irrigation areas, and providing strong water conservancy support for maintaining economic operations in a reasonable range.

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