The switchboard of the Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China: 010-63202114.
The Water Conservancy Bureau is the current Water Conservancy Bureau. It is mainly responsible for the development, utilization, conservation, protection, and management of water resources, prevention and control of water hazards, etc. within its area of ??responsibility.
The Ministry of Water Resources implements the Party Central Committee’s principles, policies, decisions and arrangements on water conservancy work, and upholds and strengthens the Party’s centralized and unified leadership of water conservancy work in the process of performing its duties. The main responsibilities are:
(1) Responsible for ensuring the rational development and utilization of water resources. Formulate water conservancy strategic plans and policies, draft relevant laws and regulations, formulate departmental regulations, and organize the preparation of major water conservancy plans such as the national water resources strategic plan, the comprehensive plan for important rivers and lakes determined by the state, and the flood control plan.
(2) Responsible for the overall planning and guarantee of water use for life, production and operation, and ecological environment. Organize and implement the strictest water resources management system, implement unified supervision and management of water resources, formulate national and cross-regional water supply and demand plans, and water allocation plans, and supervise their implementation. Responsible for water resource dispatching in important river basins, regions and major water diversion projects. Organize and implement the water abstraction permit, water resources demonstration and flood control demonstration systems, and guide the paid use of water resources. Guide the water supply industry and township water supply work.
(3) Develop relevant systems for water conservancy project construction in accordance with regulations and organize their implementation, be responsible for proposing the scale, direction, and specific arrangements for central water conservancy fixed asset investment and organize and guide their implementation, and review and approve national plans in accordance with the authority prescribed by the State Council For fixed asset investment projects within the internal and annual planned scale, make recommendations on the arrangement of central water conservancy funds and be responsible for the supervision and management of project implementation.
(4) Guide water resources protection work. Organize the preparation and implementation of water resources protection plans. Guide work related to the protection of drinking water sources, guide the development and utilization of groundwater and the management and protection of groundwater resources. Organize and guide the comprehensive management of groundwater overexploitation areas.
(5) Responsible for water conservation. Formulate water conservation policies, organize the preparation of water conservation plans and supervise their implementation, and organize the formulation of relevant standards. Organize and implement management systems such as total water consumption control, and guide and promote the construction of a water-saving society.
(6) Guide hydrological work. Responsible for hydrological and water resources monitoring, construction and management of national hydrological station network. Monitor rivers, lakes, reservoirs and groundwater, and publish hydrological and water resources information, intelligence forecasts and national water resources bulletins. Organize and carry out investigation and evaluation of water resources and water energy resources and monitoring and early warning of water resources carrying capacity in accordance with regulations.
(7) Guide the management, protection and comprehensive utilization of water conservancy facilities, waters and their shorelines. Organize and guide the construction of water conservancy infrastructure networks. Guide the management, development and protection of important rivers, lakes and estuaries. Guide the protection and restoration of river and lake water ecology, the management of ecological flow and quantity of rivers and lakes, and the connection of river and lake water systems.
(8) Guide and supervise the construction and operation management of water conservancy projects. Organize and implement the construction and operation management of important water conservancy projects that are controlled and cross-regional and cross-basin. Organize and coordinate the implementation of relevant policies and measures for the operation of the Three Gorges Project, the operation of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and the construction of subsequent projects, guide and supervise the safe operation of the projects, organize relevant work on project acceptance, and supervise and guide the construction of local supporting projects.
(9) Responsible for soil and water conservation work. Formulate water and soil conservation plans and supervise their implementation, organize and implement comprehensive prevention and control of water and soil erosion, monitor and forecast, and make regular announcements. Responsible for the supervision and management of soil and water conservation in construction projects, and guide the implementation of national key soil and water conservation construction projects.
(10) Guide rural water conservancy work. Organize and carry out the construction and renovation of large and medium-sized irrigation and drainage projects. Guide the construction and management of rural drinking water safety projects and guide work related to water-saving irrigation. Coordinate water conservancy work in pastoral areas. Guide rural water conservancy reform and innovation and the construction of social service systems. Guide the development of rural water energy resources, the transformation of small hydropower and the electrification of rural hydropower.
(11) Guide the resettlement management of water conservancy projects. Formulate policies related to water conservancy project resettlement and supervise their implementation, and organize the implementation of water conservancy project resettlement acceptance, supervision and evaluation systems.
Guide and supervise the implementation of late-stage support policies for reservoir resettlement, coordinate and supervise the late-stage support work for the Three Gorges Project and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, and coordinate and promote counterpart support.
(12) Responsible for investigating and handling major water-related illegal incidents, coordinating and arbitrating water disputes across provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and guiding water administration supervision and water administrative law enforcement. Responsible for production safety in the water conservancy industry in accordance with the law, and organizing and guiding the safety supervision of reservoirs, hydropower station dams, and rural hydropower stations. Guide the supervision and management of the water conservancy construction market, and organize and implement the supervision of water conservancy project construction.
(13) Carry out water conservancy science and technology and foreign affairs work. Organize and carry out quality supervision work in the water conservancy industry, formulate technical standards, procedures and specifications for the water conservancy industry and supervise their implementation. Handle foreign affairs related to international rivers.
(14) Responsible for implementing the relevant requirements of the comprehensive disaster prevention and reduction plan, organizing the preparation of flood and drought disaster prevention plans and protection standards and guiding their implementation. Responsible for monitoring and early warning of floods and droughts. Organize the preparation of flood and drought prevention dispatching and emergency water volume dispatching plans for important rivers, lakes and important water projects, submit them for approval according to procedures and organize their implementation. Responsible for technical support for flood prevention and emergency rescue. Responsible for the dispatching of important water projects during typhoon defense.
(15) Complete other tasks assigned by the Party Central Committee and the State Council.
(16) Functional transformation. The Ministry of Water Resources should effectively strengthen the rational utilization, optimal allocation, conservation and protection of water resources. We must prioritize water conservation, shift from increasing supply to paying more attention to demand management, strictly control the total amount of water used and improve water efficiency. Adhere to the priority of protection, strengthen the management and protection of water resources, waters and water conservancy projects, and maintain the health and beauty of rivers and lakes. Adhere to overall planning and consideration, ensure reasonable water demand and sustainable use of water resources, and provide water security guarantee for economic and social development.