North China’s Hebei Province, which is plagued by the overuse of underground water, is seeing a rise in underground water levels, thanks to efforts it has made to curb the exploitation. The province has formed 3.36 billion cubic meters of surface water use capacity to replace underground water exploitation during the past five years, Xu
Chinese engineers are testing techniques that could be used to build a 1,000km tunnel – the world’s longest – to carry water from Tibet to Xinjiang, experts involved in the project say…Full Article: South China Morning Post Oct 2017 Key Points The proposed Tibet-Xinjiang water tunnel would connect southern Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo River to Xinjiang’s
A 3,000-hectare irrigation project built by China’s Jiangxi Water and Hydropower Construction is expected to be commissioned in October, an Ethiopian official said Friday [16 June 2017]. The statement by Bizuneh Tolcha, Director of Public Relations and Communications Directorate at the Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE), said the project costs 55 million
Kyrgyzstan’s irrigation facilities are to be developed thanks to a Chinese grant, the press service of the government reported on Wednesday [24 May 2017] citing a kyrgyz official as saying. “Eleven irrigation facilities are planned to be financed this year, six of them, worth 32 million U.S. dollars, will be funded by a grant from
Xianda (Tianjin) Seawater Resources Development Co, a leading environmental engineering firm in Asia, announced Thursday [3 November 2016] a construction and operation agreement for the first zero-liquid discharge seawater desalination project in China. The deal takes place during Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s seven-day visit, which started from Monday, in China. He said at the
The daily output of China’s 121 seawater desalination projects reached more than 1 million tonnes in total by the end of 2015, according to an official report released on Wednesday [7 September 2016]…Full Article: Xinhua Finance Sept 2016 Key Point According to the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), China utilized 67.14% of its desalinated water for
The State Council, China’s cabinet, is looking to the private sector to help modernize the country’s irrigation facilities, according to a regulation published Thursday [2 June 2016]. Together, government funds and private investment will support the development of farmland irrigation systems, according to the new regulation. The government should help private investors identify suitable construction
China has begun reorganizing and adding to its irrigation and water conservation facilities to facilitate a tiered pricing mechanism encouraging more economical water use by farmers. “Some facilities have no anti-leak designs and in many cases irrigation water is not measured. All these need to be fixed before we bring in the tiered pricing mechanism,”
A yearlong program to increase yields of wheat, corn and soybeans in China’s less-fertile regions will rely on science and technology to invigorate agricultural production and benefit 70 million farmers, according to an official from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The program, dubbed Second Granary, is expected to reap an additional 9 billion kilograms of
China’s Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday [27 May 2015] published a guideline on achieving “zero discharge” of agricultural waste by 2030. The guideline also set targets on agricultural science and mechanization. China must guarantee to maintain the basic farmland at a level of no less than 1.56 billion mu (about 104 million hectares) by 2020,