The South-to-North Water Transfer Project is related to the overall strategic situation, long-term development, and people's well-being. The Ministry of Water Resources announced on September 13, 2021 that the east route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has completed the 2020-2021 water transfer task, and the mid-line has completed 99.76% of the annual water transfer task. Up to now, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has transferred 46.761 billion cubic meters of water and directly benefited 140 million people. The South-to-North Water Diversion Project is playing an increasingly important supporting role for China's economic and social development.

Today, the main water sources of more than 40 large and medium-sized cities in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan and other provinces and cities are from the south thousands of miles away. Among them, Beijing accounts for more than 70%, and Tianjin accounts for almost 100%. Today, the hardness of tap water in Beijing has dropped by 2/3, and more than 5 million people in Hebei have completely bid farewell to the long history of drinking high-fluorine water and brackish water. Thousands of miles of water transfer, from south to north, 48 rivers and a large number of lakes along the route have revived. The decline of groundwater level and land subsidence in North China have been effectively curbed. This series of changes has benefited from the continuous water supply in the first phase of the east and middle routes of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.

The summer floods and winters are dry, the north is short of Nanfeng, and the temporal and spatial distribution of water resources is extremely unbalanced. This has always been my country's basic water regime. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has coordinated the promotion of water disaster prevention, water resources conservation, water ecological protection and restoration, and water environment governance, and has completed a number of major trans-basin and trans-regional water diversion projects. The South-to-North Water Diversion is China's backbone project for cross-basin and cross-regional allocation of water resources. Editor/Sang Xiaomei