China steps up investment in water conservancy over the past five years
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
China completed 5.68 trillion yuan (about 810 billion U.S. dollars) in water conservancy investment during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), Vice Minister of Water Resources Chen Min said on Friday.
Addressing a press conference, Chen said that the country’s annual investment in water conservancy projects has exceeded 1 trillion yuan for four consecutive years since 2022.
The country’s effective irrigated farmland had reached 1.09 billion mu (about 72.67 million hectares) by the end of 2025, an increase of more than 53 million mu compared with the end of 2020, according to the press conference.
Meanwhile, access to tap water in rural areas continued to expand, with the national rural tap water coverage reaching 96 percent by the end of 2025.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
