Water conservancy and water transport projects are key areas of infrastructure construction. Data show that in the first five months of this year, water conservancy and water transport construction completed investment of more than 410 billion yuan, more than 73 billion yuan, an increase of more than 30 per cent year-on-year, in pulling the investment, stabilising growth, expanding domestic demand, and promoting the development of play a huge role.

Water conservancy and water transport projects naturally have the conditions for integrated development. The National Water Network Construction Plan Outline proposes to promote the integrated development of water network and shipping, indicating that the current and future period, should accelerate the realisation of the water network and shipping integrated planning, resonance, complement each other, and promote each other's integration of the development of the situation for a higher standard of protection of the country's water security, and promote the economic and social development of high quality to make a greater contribution.

To strengthen the integration at the planning level, and strengthen the synergy among various departments. National water network in the "outline" and "eye", mainly by the large rivers, major tributaries, small and medium-sized rivers, as well as the relevant diversion and transfer of drainage channels and river and lake system connectivity projects, these natural rivers and lakes and diversion and transfer of drainage projects, many of which are water transport corridors or with the water transport conditions. water transport conditions. To comprehensive planning in the basin, land space planning and other comprehensive planning, good at "boat by water", the allocation of water resources, flood water venting, river and lake ecological protection and restoration of river and lake corridors and connecting channel needs, and inland navigation on the demand for water transport channel co-ordination, scientific evidence of the location of the important channel towards the water source and water volume, The location and direction of important passages, water source and volume, and the way of scheduling should be scientifically demonstrated, and the construction schedule should be determined in accordance with the respective needs of the water network and water transport, financial conditions, and the degree of urgency. In the preliminary work of the water network project, which also serves the function of water conservancy and water transport, it is necessary to strengthen the synergistic promotion of water conservancy, transport and other departments, so as to form the effect of "one plus one is greater than two" in the establishment of the project, the fight for funds, the construction arrangement and the later benefit exertion.

The role of important corridors in water conservancy and shipping should be further enhanced under the strategic deployment of national water network construction. The Yangtze River, Pearl River, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and other important channels are typical representatives of the deep integration of water conservancy and shipping. We should make good use of the resource endowment of the golden waterway of the Yangtze River, and further enhance the flood control, water supply, ecology and shipping capacity of the Yangtze River basin through the joint scheduling of the upper and middle reaches of the main river as well as some tributaries of the reservoir group, and the construction of a new channel for water transport in the Three Gorges Hub, and other measures. Enhance the deep integration of water conservancy and water transport in the Pearl River, give full play to the role of the Dato Gorge and other controlling hubs, and safeguard all kinds of water demand. Promote the comprehensive function of the northern section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal north of the Yellow River, and strive to maintain its effectiveness and play an important role in the protection and inheritance of the use of the Grand Canal culture, the promotion of the recovery of rivers and lakes in North China and the comprehensive management of over-exploitation of groundwater in the wake of the water replenishment to achieve the first full-flow through the water in a hundred years in 2022. In addition, a number of water conservancy and water transport integration projects will be planned and constructed in a coordinated manner, and the construction of Pinglu Canal will be accelerated to give full play to its comprehensive role in the new land and sea corridor and optimisation of the water resources allocation pattern around the Beibu Gulf as early as possible, and the construction of Gan-Guangdong and Xiang-Gui Canal will be promoted in an orderly manner to facilitate the formation of the water resources allocation of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Basin, as well as the new inland waterway transport pattern.

In addition, there is a need to innovate the construction and management mechanism of the integration project. Water conservancy project public welfare characteristics are more prominent, market-oriented investment and financing capacity is weak, water transport projects, although both public welfare characteristics, but the benefits are generally better than water conservancy projects. To give play to the characteristics of their respective projects, in the construction, operation and management, investment and financing mechanisms to explore. Promote the integration of the relevant standards of engineering synergy, in the construction, scheduling, management standards, taking into account flood control, water supply, ecology, navigation and other aspects of the function of the integrated play, scientific determination of the relevant standards and levels. (Source: Economic Daily News by Zhao Zhongnan)