Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying introduced on March 8 at the second "Minister Channel" of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress that the Ministry of Water Resources adheres to the principle of water conservation priority, strengthens the rigid constraints on water resources, and vigorously improves the ability to save and intensively utilize water resources, so that the intensity of water resource development and utilization does not exceed the carrying capacity of rivers and lakes, so that the "returning water to rivers" will not exceed the load capacity of rivers and lakes, and achieve "returning water to rivers." In the past 10 years, my country's GDP has increased by nearly 10 times, and the total national water use has achieved zero growth. (Reporters Wei Hongyi and Wu Yu)
