The Chinese government has pledged to intensify construction of water facilities, an urgent effort to enhance grain safety and fight drought and floods.
China will prioritize water projects in its infrastructure construction and take irrigation and water conservancy as a major task in rural infrastructure improvement, President Hu Jintao stressed at a meeting on the matter held in Beijing on Friday and Saturday.
Hu said water has exerted more evident impact on China's economic security, ecological security and national security as the economic and social development and improved livelihoods are facing water strains.
Rain-triggered floods have battered central and southern regions of China, killing people, destroying homes and inundating farmland since June, right after some areas were hit by severe drought for months which caused drinking problems and damage to crops.
Hu said accelerating development facilities is an urgent need for the nation to guarantee grain safety, restructure its economy, build an energy-saving and environment-friendly society, promote social stability and combat natural disasters.
Hu said China will establish a water system that can shield the nation from the impact of floods and drought, utilize water efficiently and protect water resources by 2020.
In recent years, the "smart city" has gradually become a hot topic, give the public a expectation on better future city life. In the international arena, has been more than 200 "smart city" projects are being implemented. Some domestic cities are taking positive action, Shanghai put forward that take advantage of urban wisdom to building a smart city, Wuhan in October last year, has taken substantive steps to construct smart city, Ningbo in September 2010 to make a decision on building a smart city, then introduced five-year Action Platform for the smart city construction. The city has also been classified as hubs of the province to build a central hub "smart city system. Conform to the wave of smart city, develop intelligent industry in the city to promote the construction of “two districts six cities ", the first to build a moderately prosperous society of a higher level to benefit the whole people, should play an active role.
An "intelligent life", and "smart city" is closer to us
Last year, two reports on Zhejiang may not seem like much, but let us smell the atmosphere of "intelligent life", see the dawn of the "smart city".
The first report: Ningbo held the first China Intelligence Fair, provincial ministries tripartite signed a "smart city" pilot cooperation agreement. September 2, 2011, China's first smart city Expo - 2011 China Smart City technology and application products Exposition "held in Ningbo. Three days exhibition, 310 enterprises participate in the exhibition, 16 total investment of 6.5 billion smart city cooperation projects located in Ningbo.