Middle Route Project of South-to-North Water Transferring

Middle Route Project of South-to-North Water Transfer is the backbone project for sustainable development of North China. This paper put forwards the necessity and the main features of the project. It is emphasized that the basic law of the project planning and designing is benefit to both the water supply area and water diverted area. How to put into practice this law is the main line of this article. China features large in territory and great different natural climate condition. The spatial distribution of water resources is uneven and non-coordinated with the national economic layout of China. Since 1980s, water resources shortage has became more and more serious in a larger scope with economic development. Along with the concept setting up of water being as a kind of resources, great progress has been achieved in water saving area. According to the statistical data, from 1980 to 1997, GDP of China increased by 7.4 times, reached to 11000 billion RMB, but water use increased by 25%, the water saving potential capacity has been greatly developed. Chinese economy is being in high-speed development, water resources demand will still increase. This requires us in one hand to develop water saving potential capacity and more in another hand to transfer water in a long distance by means of market and government macro regulation and control, for solving fundamentally water resources shortage problem.