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Western
Region Development: Ten Pojects scheduled
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2000-10-04
7. The Water-Control Projects at Zipingpu in Sichuan
Province and Shapotau on the Yellow River in the Ningxia
Hui Antonomons Region
Strengthening of the construction of water facilities
in the western region is an important task related to
the overall development of the west and the improvement
of the ecological environment.
The Zipingpu water conservancy project in Sichuan Province,
located in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River,
is a large-scale project mainly intended for irrigation
and water supply, and which has comprehensive functions
like power generation and flood control. Its construction
will improve the flood-control capacity in the downstream
Chengdu Plain. The water supply guarantee rate will
increase by 10 percentage points, which will be of great
significance to the economic development of Sichuan
Province.
The construction of the water conservancy project at
Shapotou on the Yellow River will improve the irrigation
conditions along the Yellow River in Ningxia, as well
as improve the guarantee rate and water utility efficiency
of areas currently irrigated by the Yellow River While
improving the comprehensive productivity of agriculture
in this region, the project will control the total amount
of water drawn from the Yellow River, increase the power
supply, help the inhabitants in mountainous areas rise
out of poverty as soon as possible, and foster the rapid
development of the rural economy in this region.
8. Returning Farmland to Forests and Pastures, Ecological
Construction and Breeding Saplings in the central and
western regions
Returning farmland to forests and pastures is of great
strategic significance to the development of the western
region. The implementation of this project will effectively
improve the ecological environment and prevent soil
erosion in the western region. From the year 2000, pilot
projects of converting land to forests and pastures
will be carried out in 13 provinces and regions in the
upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the middle reaches
of the Yellow River like Yunnan and Sichuan, Shanxi
and Gansu. A projected total of 343,000 hectares of
land will be returned to its original state, and there
will be 432,000 hectares of man-made forests and pastures
on what was previously wasteland. This project will
not only have an enormous ecological effect but will
also be an active driving force for the adjustment of
the cultivation mix in rural areas.
Besides returning farmland to forests and pastures,the
Central Government will also invest in comprehensive
projects to ecologically control areas with serious
soil erosion and bad ecological environments. The projects
are of extreme importance to the social and economic
development of the western region. Only by strengthening
the control over and constantly improving the ecological
environment can the abundant natural resources in the
west be fully explored and utilized, the conditions
for the introduction of capital, technology and
talent be created, the flooding in the middle and lower
reaches of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers be mitigated
and social and economic development be promoted.
Hope for the development of the western region lies
in this project, which is also an important condition
for the realization of the sustainable development of
the entire country.
Water-control projects, returning farmland to forests
and pastures, ecological construction and sapling projects
in the western region all combine resource development
with environmental protection and pursue the integration
of economic, social and ecological effects for the sustainable
development of the economy.
9. Qinghai Potassic Fertilizer Project
Qinghai Province is a poor region in western China.
The construction of large industrial projects in this
area is of great political and economic significance
to the strategy of the western region development. The
salt water lake in Qinghai is rich in potash resources,
which not only guarantee the current production capacity
but also satisfy the needs of this project and other
follow-up projects. Due to the current low production
capacity, most of the potash fertilizers need to be
imported. Making use of self-developed technology that
has been successfully applied in production, this project
offers clear advantages.
The construction of this project will support the country's
agricultural production, promote the comprehensive utilization
of the resources in the salt lake and foster local economic
development. This project also serves as an
active experiment on the rational exploration of natural
resources and the readjustment of the industrial structure
in the western region,
1 0. Facilities Construction in Colleges and Universities
In order to implement the strategy of
western region development, speed up the cultivation
of talent and enhance the quality of talent, the State
has decided to support higher education and construct
lab facilities, as well as promote the socialization
of logistic services in colleges and universities in
the western region by making use of the funds raised
through the issuance of government debts. This project
will effectively improve the educational and technical
levels of the laborers, accelerate the development of
education and enlarge the scale of the cultivation of
high-level talent. It will also ameliorate the conditions
for schooling in the western region, create
favorable working conditions for research staff and
improve the research standard in colleges and universities.
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