Site News September 8 to 13 , by the Ministry of Water Resources , International Water and Environmental Engineering (IAHR) co-sponsored the 35th International Water Congress held in Chengdu, Sichuan , Chairman of the Organizing Committee , Vice Minister of Water Resources Jiao Yong at the opening ceremony and made Assembly general Report . From 78 countries and regions around 1,400 government officials, heads of international organizations , researchers , engineers, young scholars , corporate exhibitors attended the meeting. UNESCO Assistant Director-General Ka Longji also made ​​a general report on the meeting .

 

This session of " wise man happy water : Water Sciences and Engineering of the quest " as the theme , by organizing plenary sessions, academic clubs , exhibition wall papers , Master Class , Student Paper Competition , seminars , technical visits and exhibitions around the water engineering and social civilization , water environment and water ecology , river hydraulics and river management, marine hydraulics and coastal engineering , water resources and water information , climate change and disaster response and many other topics expand exchanges and discussions . Conference by the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower , Sichuan University , Tsinghua University, University of Hong Kong , the Chengdu Municipal Government co-host.

 

Ying International Water and Environmental Engineering Institute invited Jiao Yong, vice minister of the English speech entitled " people and water towards sustainable development is the inevitable road" General Report , elaborated people and water dialectical relationship , introduced China's modernization process water relations of people facing problems and challenges , as well as the development of China's modernization to create harmony between man and water policies and measures. He said the Chinese government attaches great importance to water conservancy work , adhere to the people-oriented, people and water, flood control ideas, to comprehensively strengthen the legal, policy, investment, technology and other aspects of water conservancy support , built the world's large-scale water infrastructure system, and efforts to overcome stages of development difficulties arising from the ecological environment , out of a flood with Chinese characteristics Hing water path.

 

Jiao Yong said that the Chinese government is implementing a modernization strategy for the 21st century , the construction of ecological civilization modernization strategy as the core content of China 's economic and social sustainability throughout the entire process of development . To provide safe water conservancy modernization process safeguards to maintain good water ecology and water environment, it is necessary to establish the guiding ideology of harmony between man and water , improve water conservation to economic and social development support capabilities , implement the most stringent water management system, strengthen the rivers ecological protection and restoration .

 

International Water and Environmental Engineering Society, founded in 1935 , is the world 's oldest academic wading water conservancy international academic organizations. International Water Association Congress initiated by that , once convened every two years . China was held in Beijing in 2001, the 29th Congress of the International Water Resources .

 

Before the meeting, Vice Minister Jiao Yong courtesy meeting of the International Council of the Institute of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Chairman of Faulkner and other attendees .