The Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee of the Ministry of Water Resources learned deeply and understood the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech and important instructions to implement the national “jiang river strategy”, as a “spokesperson” of the Yellow River, provide strong water security guarantees for comprehensive promotion of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.
To promote the development of water quality in the Yellow River Basin
Since 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping has held a colloquium three times, and made a series of important speeches and important directives on ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin. These important discourses have answered a series of major theoretical and practical questions about conservation governance in the Yellow River Basin. In the past six years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has deeply understood the profound thinking on the major issues of the Yellow River, continuously improve political judgment, political understanding and political execution. The efforts of the whole committee are to cooperate with the top-level design, fully implement the Platform for Ecological Protection and High Quality Development and Special Plan for Water Conservancy.
In order to strengthen the development and security of the Yellow River, General Secretary Xi Jinping paid high attention to safeguarding the Huang River Changzhi Jiuan, stating that "although the Yellow River has not had great problems for many years, the Yellow River water hazards still hang like a sword on its head, there is no let down guard at all." After more than 70 years of argument, Guxian water conservancy hub project began construction, 1371 km downstream standardized levee was fully constructed. Relying on engineering and non-engineering measures to respond to 14 numbered floods, the further wrote Anlan Xinhua Chapter in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. As of 2024, the Yellow River Basin water and soil retention rate reached 69.07 percent, up 2.32 percentage points from 2019, further improving the productive living conditions of people in Huangtu Plateau area.
In the process of deploying strategies to promote ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, General Secretary Xi repeatedly emphasized the establishment of a "one game" idea, requiring upstream and downstream, dry tributaries, left and right bank planning, noting that "to improve strategic thinking ability, put system ideas through the whole process of ecological protection and high quality development". In order to build a new water conservancy productivity, the initial construction of the digital twin Yellow River with full-water coverage and chain linkage. In the new journey of the new era, we will deeply understand the rationale and philosophy contained in General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourse on water management. We will integrate strategic thinking, historical thinking, dialectic thinking, systems thinking, innovative thinking, rule of law thinking, bottom line thinking, making decisions and doing things.
Deeply implement the national "River Strategy" to fully promote ecological protection and high-quality development of Yellow River Basin
In June, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued "Views on Comprehensive Promotion of River Protection and Governance" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinion") to comprehensively advance river protection governance and further enhance water safety and security capabilities. Under strong leadership of the Ministry of Water Resources, we will deeply practice the spirit of water management ideas and important discourse on water management.
In order to improve the watershed regulation and flood mitigation system, we strive to protect the Yellow River Anlan. At present, the incongruous characteristics of the Yellow River water-sand relationship has not fundamentally changed. Flood risk is still the biggest threat to the Yellow River basin. It must actively practice "two insistence, three transformation" disaster prevention and relief concept, adhere to the rule of dry tributaries, optimize the layout of the flood control system. Sound responsibility implementation, decision support, dispatch command "Trinity" water drought disaster defense work system, enhance flood response capacity.
The water supply gap in the Yellow River water supply and demand is large, and the distribution of water space and time distribution does not match economic and social development needs. It must be grasped from this source, adhere to water city, water localization, water localization, human production, water conservation priority, green development path, strict implementation of water rigidity constraints, steady optimization and adjustment of "eight or seven" water distribution scheme, and sound control system covering the whole basin. In order to promote the development of water rights in all levels of the basin, we will continue to promote the integration and integration of water networks at all levels of the basin.
In order to strengthen the ecological function of the river basin, improve the ecological environment of rivers and lakes, enhance the conservation of water sources and soils, build the green ecological corridor of rivers and rivers, promote the ecological protection of estuary and delta. Enhancing ecological water scheduling and management, ensuring that key rivers mainly control the sectional ecological flow to meet the standard, successively carry out ecological rehydration of Uliangsu sea and estuary delta ecological rehydration.
The Yellow River culture is an important part of Chinese civilization and is the root and soul of the Chinese nation. It must adhere to the times, keep innovation, promote systematic protection of the Yellow River cultural heritage, dig deep into the era value of the Yellow River culture, pass on good history and national roots. To deepen the relationship between river governance and statecraft, the history of people's treatment of Yellow River water culture brand, to seize the integration of Yellow River water project and Huang River culture, actively contribute to the construction of Yellow River National Cultural Park.
The Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development is a complex system project, supporting each other inside and outside the watershed. Various governance elements interact with each other, leading to full mobilization of motivation in all aspects, and must join together to sing the "Yellow River Great Chorus" of the new era. Watershed management institutions should continue to play the role of the main force, strengthen the "four unity" of watershed governance management. The Yellow River Project has been successfully completed, and the Yellow River Project has been successfully completed. The Yellow River Project has been successfully completed. The Yellow River Project has been successfully completed, and the Yellow River Project has been successfully completed. The Yellow River Project has been successfully completed.
(Director of Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee, Ministry of Water Resources)
Source: Learning Times 1st edition October 8, 2025
