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China has made great breakthrough in water conservancy construction
during the "Ninth Five Year Plan" period. The central
government invested nearly 100 billion yuan in infrastructure construction
for water conservancy projects in 1998, 1999 and 2000, an annual
increase of three to four folds over the normal times.
During the "Ninth Five Year Plan" period, China began
to construct 30,000-km protecting embankment with 16,000-km of sectional
embankment completed to the standard, of which the first and second
tiered embankments along mainstreams and tributaries of major rivers
occupied over 10,000 km. A total of 6,000 km sea dykes was built
and 236 cities across the country reached the national standard
for flood control, a rise of 37 percent as against the 31 percent
in the early days of the "Ninth Five Year Plan" period.
25 water control projects were put into operation, an increased
capacity of six billion cubic meters for flood control, and over
80 large and medium-sized reservoirs got consolidated with a capacity
of 5.8 billion cubic meters being restored for the prevention of
floods
(People's Daily 01/17/01)
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