The rotating convener, Mayor Gong Zheng, delivered a speech, and the joint meeting of provincial river and lake chiefs in the Yangtze River Basin was held to jointly build the spirit of a happy Yangtze River | River and Lake | Joint Meeting
The joint meeting of provincial river and lake chiefs in the Yangtze River Basin in 2023 was held today.Gong Zheng, the rotating convener of the joint meeting, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and Mayor, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.
Wang Daoxi, Deputy Minister of Emergency Management and Deputy Minister of Water Resources, attended and delivered a speech. Ma Jianhua, Vice Convenor of the Joint Meeting and Director of the Yangtze River Commission, delivered a report on the management and protection of rivers and lakes in the Yangtze River Basin. Members of the joint meeting and leaders of the 15 provinces in the Yangtze River Basin, including Liu Tao, Ciren Pingcuo, Na Yunde, Zheng Xiangdong, Wu Haitao, Zhang Yingchun, Lu Xiaoqing, Zhang Shuguang, Xia Xinmin, Zhang Xiaohong, Li Gang, Zhong Hongjiang, Sun Yunfeng, Chen Yan, and Hu Yun, made a video exchange speech.
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The meeting pointed out that we must adhere to green development and accelerate the construction of the Anlan, green, harmonious, and beautiful Yangtze River. We need to focus on improving the water environment and continue to deepen the battle to defend the blue water. Efforts will be made to restore aquatic ecology, strengthen ecological monitoring and protection of key rivers and lakes, and systematically promote the restoration of aquatic biodiversity. We will focus on protecting water resources, prioritize water conservation, strengthen joint scheduling of water projects in the Yangtze River Basin, strengthen rigid constraints on water resources, and increase efforts to protect drinking water sources. We will focus on ensuring water safety, always tighten the string of flood and disaster prevention, and ensure the safety of major rivers during flood season. Efforts will be made to promote the water culture, continue the historical context, and carry out investigations and protection of water conservancy heritage. Efforts will be made to control river and lake shorelines, and to promote ecological restoration and waterfront space construction at a high level.
The meeting emphasized the need to strengthen collaborative governance, firmly establish the concept of "one game in the river basin" and a systematic concept, fully leverage the role of the joint meeting mechanism of river and lake chiefs in the Yangtze River Basin, and further improve the capacity and level of river basin governance. We need to strengthen the implementation of responsibilities, strengthen supervision and assessment, and ensure that management and protection responsibilities are fully implemented. Strengthen basin collaboration, strengthen joint consultation, joint inspection, joint law enforcement, and joint supervision. Strengthen intelligent management, further improve the river and lake chief management information system, and promote the normalization of data sharing. Strengthen social participation, strike a combination of the rule of law, market, technology, and policy, fully leverage the roles of grassroots river and lake leaders, volunteers, and others, smooth channels for the public to reflect on issues, motivate the whole society to take action, and form a strong joint force to promote the protection of the Yangtze River.