On December 22, 2021, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the fifth anniversary of the full implementation of the river and lake chief system. The five-year long system of rivers and lakes is a five-year period of water ecological governance and restoration, a five-year period of strengthening water resources protection and water pollution prevention, and a five-year period of forging ahead in Daxing water ecology.

Over the past five years, the chaos in rivers and lakes, focusing on the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and the Grand Canal, has been effectively curbed. In 2020, the water consumption of GDP will drop by more than 20 cubic meters compared with 2016, and the proportion of water quality sections of Class I to III surface water nationwide will increase by more than 15% compared with 2016.

In 2004, the Ministry of Water Resources organized the protection and restoration of water ecosystems, and promoted the protection and restoration of water ecosystems as a key task. System Protection and Restoration Engineering Technical Guidelines, forming a more and more perfect governance system. The current river and lake chief system has solidly entered the stage of strategic upgrading of the river and lake chief system.

Under the implementation of river and lake reconstruction in line with China's national conditions, my country's river and lake ecology is transforming into a "happy river and lake". During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the goal of Xingfu River and Lake is "smooth river, clear water, green shore, beautiful scenery and harmonious people".

According to the person in charge of the Ministry of Water Resources, there are 45,000 rivers in the country with a total length of 1.5 million kilometers. It is not an easy task to manage them in an integrated manner.

The combination of new technologies and equipment such as satellite remote sensing, big data, and drones with the river and lake chief system is very helpful.

The relevant person in charge said that in recent years, a map of water conservancy and a remote sensing background database have been used to complete 1.1 million kilometers of river and lake demarcation results. The integration of regulation and technological means. The efficiency of river and lake supervision is constantly improving, and the management and protection of rivers and lakes is also moving towards digitization, intelligence and refinement.

Promote the use of the "Internet + Big Data" river and lake chief system work model, and use cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things and other technologies, and local areas have also made solid achievements. For example, in Chengdu, Sichuan, all 295 rivers, 1,377 main canals, and 293 reservoirs in the city have been included in the river chief management system, and the main pollution indicators of rivers have been effectively controlled. Another example is that the ecological management and protection team of Jiujiang Rivers and Lakes in Jiangxi has been reduced from 2,219 to 779 people, realizing the normal inspection and control of 15 rivers of more than 50 square kilometers in the whole region; Hunan Xiangtan demolished 168 open garbage ponds along the rivers this year, and the rivers and lakes There are 98 "eight chaos" problems, and the appearance of rivers and lakes has been improved.

Five years of steady struggle, such examples abound.Entering the "14th Five-Year Plan" river and lake chief system, the 3.0 version was officially opened.

According to the content introduced by the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources at the press conference, in the new era, the river and lake chief system should continue, and the major river basins should be continued, and the small and micro water bodies should be gradually rolled out. There must be focus and coordination.

1. More attention will be paid to the integrity of the river and the systemic nature of the river basin. Change from "segmented governance" to "global governance", and solve the problem that some rivers currently only govern the urban area but not the suburbs, only the upstream but not the downstream, and only the part but not the whole, so as to coordinate the whole river basin and combine points, lines and planes .

2. The symptoms must be treated, and the root cause is the key. The governance starts from key river basin areas and gradually extends to the "last mile", rolling out "one river (lake), one policy", strictly controlling the water resources of rivers and lakes and the water coastline space.

3. Continue to ensure the integrity of the ecological space of rivers and lakes, restore the ecological environment of rivers and lakes, and create healthy, beautiful and happy rivers and lakes.

The "Opinions on Fully Implementing the River Chief System" and "Guiding Opinions on Implementing the Lake Chief System in Lakes" issued in 2016 and 2017, to the "Opinions on Fully Implementing the River Chief System" issued by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council this year. Opinions", under the witness of countless eyes, the river and lake chief system has become more and more perfect and mature. With the accelerated advancement of the river and lake chief system, "the water is always clear and the water is always clear" will be realized more quickly.