Wuxi City, rural water conservancy investment will be a new high next year

It was learned from the Wuxi Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau on November 14th that the rural water conservancy investment in Wuxi will increase substantially in 2012, and will increase 105 million yuan on the basis of this year, and the planned total investment will reach 700 million yuan, an increase of nearly 20%. The city's rural water investment is new high.

Next year, Wuxi will focus on the key tasks of irrigation and drainage pumping station renovation and renovation, comprehensive management of reclamation areas, rural river dredging, new construction and renovation of hillside dams, and restoration and control of soil erosion, vigorously develop rural water conservancy, and promote grain production and agriculture. Increase efficiency, increase farmers' income, help the city to build a national water modernization demonstration city.

It is understood that next year the city plans to complete a total of 10.06 million square meters of rural water conservancy construction, including 2.94 million square kilometers of rivers and dredging of rivers in counties and townships, 3.47 million square meters of dredged rivers in villages and rivers, 870,000 square meters of reinforced and embankments, and new and improved irrigation. Pumping station 204, 6438 kilowatts; remediation, lining impervious channels 347 kilometers; the construction of more than 938 small ditch buildings; restore control of soil erosion area of ​​21.67 square kilometers; and strengthen the construction of grassroots water conservancy stations.