On January 26, Li Guoying, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, presided over a ministry meeting to study and strengthen the operation, management and protection of rural water supply projects.

The meeting emphasized that rural water supply is related to the livelihood and well-being of hundreds of millions of people. It is necessary to unswervingly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches and instructions on rural water supply security and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, promote the implementation of the "3+1" standardized construction and management and maintenance model of rural water supply in a detailed and practical manner, do a good job in consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation and effectively connecting rural revitalization with the normalization of rural water supply after the transition period, and effectively ensure the safety of rural water supply. It is necessary to comprehensively implement unified management, unified monitoring, unified operation and maintenance, and unified services of rural water supply in counties, and strive to build a full-chain standardized system from water sources to faucets to promote high-quality development of rural water supply. It is necessary to strengthen the management and control of rural water supply safety risks, improve the early warning, discovery, solution, and feedback mechanisms for rural water supply problems, improve the emergency water supply guarantee system for both emergency and emergency use, and enhance the digital, networked, and intelligent level of rural water supply project management. On the basis of adhering to the public welfare attribute and ensuring people's livelihood, we must steadily promote rural water supply price reform, further promote water conservation, and promote standardized, professional and sustainable operation of projects.

Information source: China Water Conservancy