Full text of the speech at the Central Water Conservancy Work Conference

The main tasks of this meeting are: to implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee and the meeting of directors of the National Water Resources Department, summarize the water conservancy work in the 10th Five-Year Plan, analyze the current situation of water conservancy work, study and deploy the water conservancy work in the 11th Five-Year Plan and 2006, adhere to the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, unify thoughts and raise awareness. Clear thinking, clear objectives, promote the administration of water conservancy system according to law, and provide legal guarantee for the sustainable development of water conservancy.

The meeting will also commend the advanced units and individuals in the "Fourth Five-Year Plan". Previously, the Water Administration and Water Resources Department of Heihe River Basin Administration of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission and water administration workers such as Lin Yaju, Han Qirong, Chen Yanhai, Zhang Zerong and Wang Jiaohe were awarded the titles of advanced collective and advanced worker in the national water conservancy system respectively. Here, on behalf of the Ministry of Water Resources, I would like to express my warm congratulations to the units and individuals who have won the honorary title, and my sincere condolences and heartfelt thanks to the comrades engaged in water administration work throughout the country!

Next, I'd like to make three comments.

First, fully affirm the achievements made in water control according to law during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period.

The tenth five-year plan is a period of all-round economic and social development in China, and it is also a period of all-round promotion and remarkable results in the sustainable development of water conservancy. Over the past five years, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to solving the water resources problem and made a series of major arrangements. According to the requirements of Scientific Outlook on Development, the water conservancy department has conscientiously implemented the central water conservancy policy in the new period, and the idea of water conservancy has undergone profound changes, and the sustainable development of water conservancy has been deepened. Taking the harmony between man and nature as the core concept of water conservancy work, taking the sustainable utilization of water resources as the breakthrough point, taking solving the drinking water difficulty and drinking water safety as the primary task of water conservancy work, making overall plans to solve the problems of drought and water shortage, flood disaster, water pollution and soil erosion, making overall plans for water conservancy development in river basins and regions, making overall plans for life, production and ecological water use, paying more attention to the saving, allocation and protection of water resources, and paying more attention to social management and public services. The scale of water conservancy construction in China is unprecedented, a large number of water conservancy infrastructure related to the national economy and people's livelihood and the overall development have been put into practice, and the water conservancy infrastructure construction has reached a new level. The construction of a water-saving society has been steadily advanced, and the national water use efficiency has been significantly improved. Water conservancy reform deepened and capacity building was strengthened. Effectively respond to disasters such as floods and droughts, and the water demand for economic and social development is basically guaranteed. During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, water conservancy work provided a strong guarantee for the construction of ecological environment, and laid a solid foundation for the reform and development of water conservancy in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period and even longer, and laid a solid foundation for promoting the stable development of the national economy, ensuring the safety of people's lives and property, and promoting grain production and farmers' income.

Insisting on managing water according to law and promoting administration according to law are the basic requirements and important contents of sustainable development of water conservancy. During the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, through the unremitting efforts of water administrative departments at all levels, especially the vast number of water administration workers, the water conservancy department has made important progress in administration according to law:

First, more than 30 laws, regulations and rules, such as the Water Law, the Measures for the Implementation of the Water Permit System and the Regulations on the Management of Sand Mining in the Yangtze River, were revised, formulated or studied in the early stage, and 1 16 local regulations and government regulations were promulgated. Significant progress has been made in water conservancy legislation, and the water conservancy laws and regulations system has been improved. The second is to clean up the water conservancy administrative examination and approval items 106, comprehensively check the implementation subject of water conservancy administrative license, clean up the basis of administrative license, determine the catalogue of water conservancy administrative examination and approval items, strengthen the review of the draft laws, regulations and normative documents related to water conservancy administrative license, and make important progress in the reform of water conservancy administrative examination and approval system. Third, policy research has been carried out on water rights system, water conservancy development in western China, rural water conservancy development after rural tax and fee reform, water conservancy development mechanism meeting WTO requirements, and river basin water resources management system, which strongly supports legislation and government decision-making. Fourth, strengthen law enforcement, carry out various special law enforcement activities, and investigate and deal with more than 200,000 cases of water violations, effectively cracking down on various water violations and maintaining normal water order. Fifth, in-depth investigation, multi-party coordination, grasping the key points, comprehensive management, mediation of more than 40,000 water disputes, breakthroughs in mediation of major inter-provincial water disputes such as the upper reaches of the Shanxi-Hebei-Danhe River, Dayankeng in Zhejiang and Fujian, and Jingziguan in the Hubei-Henan-Danjiang River, thus maintaining social stability and harmony. Sixth, adhere to the combination of centralized publicity and regular publicity, the combination of learning and using the law, and the combination of popularizing law and governing according to law, extensively and deeply carry out the publicity of popularizing law and water legal system in the Fourth Five-Year Plan, strengthen the awareness and concept of water legal system in the whole society, and improve the ability and level of water administrative departments at all levels to administer according to law.

The continuous promotion of water control according to law has provided important support and guarantee for the reform and development of water conservancy, and effectively promoted the construction of a government ruled by law and the sustainable development of water conservancy. Summing up the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" to control water according to law has the following four outstanding characteristics.

1. By modifying the basic water law, the water resources management system has been straightened out, the unified management of water resources has been realized, and the water resources management system has been strengthened, which has played a fundamental, overall and long-term role in ensuring and promoting the development of water conservancy.

The revision, adoption and promulgation of "Water Law" legalized the central government's water conservancy policy and sustainable development thought in the new period, standardized the effective water conservancy practice in legal form, absorbed the experience of water control at home and abroad, straightened out the water resources management system, realized the unified management of water resources, defined the legal status of river basin management institutions, and stipulated a series of legal systems such as water resources planning, development, utilization, allocation, conservation, protection and management. It is of great practical and long-term historical significance to promote water management and administration according to law, realize the sustainable utilization of water resources and promote the development of water conservancy, which is an important milestone in the process of water management according to law.

2. Prioritize priorities, timely legislate and formulate policies and regulations urgently needed for water conservancy development and reform, and issue a number of administrative regulations, rules and policies to ensure the healthy development of water conservancy.

Around the "Water Law" supporting laws and regulations system construction, in view of the urgent needs of water resources management, planning management, construction management, water intake permit management, flood storage and detention area management, resettlement, sand mining management, water price management, etc., carry out the revision, formulation or preliminary investigation of laws, regulations and rules. Four administrative regulations, such as Interim Measures for Compensation of Flood Storage and Detention Areas, Regulations on Resettlement for Construction of Three Gorges Project, Regulations on Sand Mining Management in the Yangtze River, Regulations on Flood Control (Revised), and a number of ministerial regulations, such as Measures for the Administration of Water Supply Price of Water Conservancy Projects and Measures for the Administration of Sewage Discharge into Rivers, were promulgated. The long-awaited Regulations on the Administration of Water Permit and Water Resources Fee Collection has been deliberated and passed in the State Council, and will be implemented on April 15. Around the supporting laws and regulations of the Water Law, local water conservancy legislation has been accelerated, covering all aspects of water resources management and water activities, providing a basis for the water administrative department to administer according to law.

3. The system and mechanism of administration according to law have been continuously improved, ensuring the quality and efficiency of legal work.

The Ministry of Water Resources has strengthened legislative planning and planning, established and improved an expert consultation and demonstration system in accordance with the requirements of combining legislators, actual managers and experts and scholars, extensively absorbed opinions from all parties, and promoted democratic participation in the legislative process. The Technical Specification for Water Conservancy Legislation was formulated, and the Administrative Measures for the Examination and Filing of Normative Documents of the Ministry of Water Resources was promulgated to ensure the quality of legislation. In the legislative practice, all localities have also correctly handled the relationship between local characteristics and the unity of the legal system, and promoted the scientific and democratic legislation. In the concept of law enforcement, we have realized the transformation from the main use to the management of the administrative counterpart to the equal emphasis on managing and regulating our own law enforcement behavior according to law, strengthened the standardization of water administrative supervision, established full-time law enforcement teams in local and river basin institutions, and basically formed a three-level law enforcement network at the provincial, municipal and county levels. Actively straighten out the internal law enforcement relations, and some places have also set up water policy supervision teams to explore the relatively centralized administrative punishment rights, administrative charging rights and administrative licensing rights, and the comprehensive law enforcement of water conservancy has achieved initial results. In accordance with the working ideas of putting prevention first, combining prevention with mediation, and combining engineering measures with non-engineering measures, we will actively explore new mechanisms for preventing and resolving water disputes. The theory of water right has been initially tried and applied in mediating water disputes, and the relevant departments have defined the initial water right according to law, which provides a scientific and reasonable basis for mediation and finds an effective way to solve water conflicts.

4. Water administrative behavior has been effectively regulated, which has promoted the transformation of government functions and the construction of service-oriented government.

We will deepen the reform of the water conservancy administrative examination and approval system, carry out the construction of the administrative licensing system by concentrating on cleaning up the water conservancy administrative examination and approval items, implementing subjects and basis, and initially form a new mechanism to standardize the administrative licensing behavior. Improve the administrative supervision mechanism, actively explore the accountability mechanism of water conservancy administrative law enforcement, promote the establishment of an administrative law enforcement system with clear rights and responsibilities, standardized behavior, effective supervision and strong guarantee, and emerge a number of spiritual civilization service window units and civilized law enforcement units. Strengthen the supervision and restriction of administrative power and administrative behavior, and establish a power operation mechanism with reasonable structure, scientific allocation, strict procedures, clear rewards and punishments and effective restriction. Actively promote the openness of government affairs in the water conservancy system, continuously improve the transparency of water conservancy work, smooth communication channels with the public, and effectively protect the people's democratic rights such as the right to know, the right to participate, and the right to supervise. Conscientiously implementing the administrative reconsideration system has improved the self-correcting ability of water administrative organs.

The work in the past five years has safeguarded the dignity of water conservancy laws and regulations, shaped a good image of water conservancy industry, promoted the process of water conservancy according to law and promoted the sustainable development of water conservancy. The practice in the past five years has further deepened our understanding of managing water according to law and accumulated very valuable experience. Our main experience is:

First, we should organically combine the rule of law with the construction of a government ruled by law. In accordance with the requirements of governing for the people, the new central government emphasizes the three basic principles of scientific and democratic decision-making, adhering to administration according to law and strengthening administrative supervision, and clearly puts forward that "after ten years of unremitting efforts, the goal of building a government ruled by law will be basically realized". During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, water administrative departments at all levels, in accordance with the objectives and requirements of building a government ruled by law, consciously regard administration according to law as the basic criterion of water conservancy work, gradually change the practice of mainly relying on administrative means to solve problems, strengthen system construction, and do a good job in legislative work; Earnestly perform legal duties, strengthen and improve administrative law enforcement; Perfecting the administrative supervision system and ensuring the correct exercise of administrative power have effectively promoted the administration of water conservancy industry according to law and the self-construction of water conservancy organs at all levels.

Second, we should organically combine the requirements of managing water according to law with the sustainable development of water conservancy. The sustainable development of water conservancy is the concentrated expression of Scientific Outlook on Development in water conservancy work, and it also gives a brand-new era connotation of managing water according to law. In the past five years, water administrative departments at all levels have closely focused on the sustainable development of water conservancy, strengthened their overall awareness and central awareness, studied relevant policies and regulations in advance, conscientiously summed up good practices and experiences created by various localities, and served as outposts, staff officers and backers, providing a good policy and legal environment for the sustainable development of water conservancy.

Third, we should organically combine team building with system building. To promote water conservancy administration according to law, legislation is the foundation and law enforcement is the key. The construction of water administration institutions and law enforcement teams is an important organizational guarantee for administration according to law and an important part of the construction of water administrative law enforcement system. During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, many areas seized the favorable opportunity of institutional reform, strengthened the construction of water administration institutions, strengthened the capacity building of law enforcement teams, straightened out the water conservancy law enforcement system, and constantly promoted comprehensive water conservancy law enforcement, successfully completing the increasingly arduous water conservancy legal work.

Fourth, we should organically combine the internal resultant force with the external resultant force. Promoting water management according to law requires great attention from leaders at all levels, close cooperation within the water conservancy system, strong support from the people's congress and the legal department of the government, and a good external environment. During the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, water administrative departments at all levels paid more attention to administration according to law, increased financial support, strengthened system construction, strengthened departmental cooperation, grasped software, and paid equal attention to * * * management, which played an overall role. At the same time, take the initiative to report, actively publicize, strengthen exchanges, and strive for the understanding, understanding, care and support of leaders, relevant departments and all sectors of society for the legal work of water conservancy. In some places, administration according to law is included in water conservancy assessment. From the experience of various places, the administration of water conservancy according to law has achieved remarkable results, which all reflect the characteristics of leaders' attention, adequate guarantee and coordinated relationship.

Second, a deep understanding of the situation of water control according to law

Administration according to law is the concrete embodiment of governing the country according to law and an important link to implement the requirements of governing the country according to law. Under the condition of socialist market economy, administration according to law means that administrative organs at all levels manage the country's economic, social and cultural undertakings according to the laws, regulations and rules that embody the will of the overwhelming majority of the people, and ensure that administrative power is granted in a well-founded manner, exercised in a well-regulated manner, supervised effectively, and not neglected or exceeded. Water resources are very important public resources, and water administration is an important part of government work. It is an important task for us to adhere to and promote water control according to law.

At present and in the future, water conservancy administration according to law is facing precious opportunities:

First, Scientific Outlook on Development has opened up new ideas and horizons for managing water according to law. Scientific Outlook on Development is a concentrated expression of the world outlook and methodology guiding development, and an important guiding ideology that must be adhered to for a long time to promote economic and social development and accelerate socialist modernization. Government work must closely focus on the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and the requirements of building a harmonious socialist society, resolutely break through all ideas and concepts that hinder development, resolutely change all practices and regulations that constrain development, resolutely eliminate all institutional drawbacks that affect development, change development concepts, innovate development models, improve development quality, and promote and guarantee development. This is the top priority of the party in governing and rejuvenating the country, and promote and guarantee economic and social development to enter a scientific development track. Specific to the field of water conservancy, we should study and formulate policies, measures, laws and regulations to promote the development of water conservancy according to the requirements of Scientific Outlook on Development, and explore the institutional mechanisms conducive to the rational development, efficient utilization, optimal allocation, comprehensive conservation, effective protection and comprehensive management of water resources, so as to promote the coordinated development of economy, society, resources and environment.

Second, building a government ruled by law has pointed out the direction for managing water according to law. Government work involves almost all areas of national political, economic and cultural life. In China, 80% of laws, all administrative regulations and 90% of local regulations are implemented by the government. In this sense, administration according to law is the core of governing the country according to law. As the basic principle of government power allocation and operation, administration according to law aims at building a government ruled by law. Since the establishment of the current government, important documents such as "the State Council's Decision on Comprehensively Promoting Administration by Law", "Implementation Outline of Comprehensively Promoting Administration by Law" and "Implementation Opinions on Implementing the Implementation Outline of Comprehensively Promoting Administration by Law" have been issued one after another, which has pointed out the direction for water conservancy administration by law. To promote water management according to law is to reform the water resources management system and strengthen water social management and public services around the goal of building a government ruled by law; First, improve water conservancy legislation and improve the quality of system construction; First, reform the administrative examination and approval system and standardize the administrative licensing behavior; We should attach great importance to the scientific and democratic decision-making, establish and improve the mechanism of combining mass participation, expert consultation and government decision-making, and effectively protect citizens' right to know, participate and supervise; It is necessary to improve the administrative supervision system and mechanism, strengthen the supervision of administrative acts, and standardize the water conservancy administrative law enforcement system and power operation mechanism.

Third, the sustainable development of water conservancy provides a broad stage for managing water according to law. At present and in the future, it is a crucial period to implement Scientific Outlook on Development and promote the sustainable development of water conservancy. On the one hand, it is necessary to continuously meet the needs of economic and social development for water conservancy through water conservancy development. On the other hand, it is necessary to change the mode of water conservancy development, promote the transformation of economic growth mode, and push economic and social development into a scientific development track. The new water conservancy development model requires us to pay more attention to the harmony between people and water, water saving and pollution prevention, and environmental friendliness in the development and management of water resources; In social management, more attention is paid to making economic and social development adapt to the carrying capacity of water resources and water environment through institutional constraints; In terms of management means, it pays more attention to the important role of legal and economic means, supplemented by necessary administrative means. The new water conservancy development model needs to adjust the relationship between people, people and water, and people and environment, involving the reform of management system, objectives, contents, means and methods. Faced with such a complicated problem, water conservancy departments must adhere to administration according to law, guide and promote reform through system construction, standardize administrative behavior through strengthening supervision, adjust water relations through legal norms, maintain water order through law enforcement activities, and improve the ability and level of social management and public services of water administrative departments through changing functions.

Implementing Scientific Outlook on Development, building a government under the rule of law and promoting the sustainable development of water conservancy provide a good opportunity for water conservancy according to law, and also put forward higher requirements for water conservancy according to law. But from these aspects, there is still a big gap in water conservancy administration according to law.

First, the water administrative department needs to further improve its understanding of the importance and urgency of comprehensively promoting administration according to law. The awareness of administration according to law in a few places and leaders is still relatively weak, and there is still a phenomenon of "two skins" in administration according to law and management according to law. The problem of not being good at using legal means to deal with practical problems and not paying attention to social management is still widespread, and the phenomenon of chaos and inaction sometimes appears.

Second, the water management system needs to be further improved and the quality of policies and regulations needs to be further improved. The construction progress of water law, flood control law and other supporting laws and regulations does not meet the actual needs of management, which affects the deepening of water management to some extent. There are still institutional obstacles in the system construction involving water management system and operation mechanism. The research on major water conservancy issues is not deep enough and the legislative mechanism is not perfect enough, which leads to the lack of operability and foresight of some policies and regulations.

Third, the current policies and regulations are unbalanced, and the laws are not complied with and the law enforcement is lax, which needs to be overcome urgently. In some areas, there is a tendency to emphasize legislation over law enforcement, and the existing legal system has not been well implemented. For example, the implementation of some systems stipulated in the Flood Control Law is obviously lagging behind.

Fourth, the law enforcement system needs to be further rationalized, and water administrative law enforcement needs to achieve new breakthroughs in breadth and depth. In the areas where comprehensive urban law enforcement reform is implemented, there are still some problems in the connection between water administrative law enforcement team and comprehensive law enforcement team in law enforcement field and law enforcement mechanism. The promotion of comprehensive law enforcement in the industry needs to be accelerated; The necessary law enforcement equipment of the law enforcement team has not been effectively implemented.

Fifth, the water dispute settlement mechanism is not perfect, the implementation of necessary safeguard measures such as dispute prevention and mediation funds has not been institutionalized, and the early warning mechanism for dealing with water emergencies has not been fully established.

Sixth, the ability of administration according to law and the effectiveness of administrative supervision need to be further strengthened. In some areas, especially in some grass-roots water administrative departments, the legal institutions are weak, which is not suitable for the tasks undertaken, and it is difficult to play the role of staff, assistants and legal advisers; The water administrative department needs to provide more comprehensive, accurate and timely information services to the society; Focusing on the administrative requirements of convenience and efficiency, we should continue to popularize modern office technology and improve the working system; The relevant systems and mechanisms of administrative supervision need to be further improved.

Some of the above problems are the reflection of the lagging legal system construction of water conservancy industry during the period of economic transition and social transformation, some are the performance of traditional water conservancy thinking inertia and work habits, and some are the performance of inadequate and in-depth work implementation. If these problems are not solved well, it will have a serious impact on the healthy development of water conservancy. We must attach great importance to it and take effective measures to overcome it gradually during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period.

Three, do a good job in the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" water conservancy administration according to law.

"Eleventh Five-Year Plan" is a crucial period for water conservancy development and promoting water management according to law. The general idea is to take Scientific Outlook on Development as the guide, comprehensively promote the outline of administration according to law as the guide, focus on the goal of building a government under the rule of law, serve the overall situation of sustainable development of water conservancy, make overall plans, highlight key points, make internal and external linkages and promote as a whole, and basically establish a relatively complete water laws and regulations system and a water administrative law enforcement system that is suitable for China's national conditions, with clear rights and responsibilities, standardized behavior, effective supervision and strong guarantee. Unified, coordinated, convenient and efficient water administrative licensing implementation system, scientific, reasonable, democratic and efficient water dispute handling mechanism, improve the quality of policy research, improve the ability and level of administration according to law, promote the construction of a government ruled by law and promote the sustainable development of water conservancy.

Promoting water conservancy administration according to law in an all-round way and building a government ruled by law are related to the overall situation and the long term. The most important thing is to adhere to the principle of "statutory authority, due process, effective supervision, high efficiency and convenience, and consistent powers and responsibilities", and adhere to administration according to law throughout all functions and tasks of the water conservancy department. Comrade Zhao Wei will make specific arrangements for the 11th Five-Year Plan and this year's water administration work in his work report. Here, I emphasize a few points.

First, we must earnestly strengthen the leadership over water control according to law. Administration according to law is the overall and basic work to guide all management behaviors of water administrative departments. The Ministry of Water Resources attaches great importance to this work. In order to implement the State Council's "Implementation Outline for Comprehensively Promoting Administration by Law", the Ministry of Water Resources has set up a leading group for comprehensively promoting administration by law, with Party Secretary and Minister Wang Shucheng as the team leader, Vice Minister in charge as the deputy team leader, and the top leaders of various departments as members, and issued the Notice of the Ministry of Water Resources on Implementation, which has comprehensively planned and deployed the administration by law in the water conservancy system, defined the key tasks, and decomposed the tasks into all aspects of water conservancy work. In carrying out educational activities to maintain the advanced nature of party member's * * * production, the Party Committee of the Ministry regards promoting administration according to law as one of the specific requirements for maintaining the advanced nature of party member's * * * production in the new period, and requires party member's * * * production to take the lead in learning, abide by the Constitution and laws and regulations, and act in strict accordance with legal authority and procedures. The leaders of water administrative departments at all levels should further improve their understanding of water control according to law in accordance with the requirements of the State Council's "Implementing Outline of Comprehensively Promoting Administration according to Law", plan and deploy administration according to law from the overall height, and integrate administration according to law into all management work. The main leaders should shoulder the responsibility of the first responsible person to promote administration according to law, and consciously take the lead in learning the law, obeying the law and using it; It is necessary to standardize the decision-making mechanism and make decisions according to law, democracy and science; It is necessary to establish a correct view of political achievements, link the ability to govern with the ability to administer according to law, and link the assessment of political achievements with the effectiveness of administering according to law; It is necessary to actively promote the reform of legislation, law enforcement and administrative management systems, so that the responsibilities of social management and public services can be truly put in place.

Second, make overall plans and give prominence to key points. Comprehensively promoting administration according to law involves a wide range and complicated work. We should obey and serve the overall goal and central work of water conservancy development, grasp the weak links, grasp the main contradictions, solve difficulties, answer hot spots, make overall plans and give prominence to key points. It is necessary to link the overall planning objectives with the phased objectives, clarify the tasks at each stage, arrange the work progress, implement it step by step, and further advance it. In view of the weak links in social management and public service of water-related affairs, the construction of water rights and water market system, and the improvement of sustainable development capacity, we will focus on the system construction that plays a key role in all aspects of water management, highlight the formulation of laws and regulations on resource allocation, conservation and protection, and drought management, and pay close attention to the construction of core systems in the national water rights system, such as initial water rights allocation, total water consumption control and water rights transfer, so as to improve the management level of river basins. It is necessary to implement the responsibility system of administrative law enforcement, clarify the responsibility of law enforcement, improve the assessment mechanism of administrative law enforcement, establish the accountability system of administrative law enforcement, and make great efforts to solve the outstanding problems in the system, mechanism and safeguard measures of water administrative law enforcement. Establish and improve the mediation mechanism of water disputes that combines prevention and mediation, strive to complete the compilation of water conservancy planning in sensitive areas of inter-provincial border water disputes, generally sign the statute of water activities in border areas, and complete the formulation of emergency plans for inter-provincial water disputes in various river basins. It is necessary to improve the administrative supervision system, implement the administrative review system according to law, strengthen the administrative reconsideration work, and explore the implementation of a relatively centralized administrative licensing system. Pay close attention to the formulation and implementation of the "Fifth Five-Year Plan" for popularizing the law, improve the system for leading cadres of administrative organs to learn the law, and further enhance the awareness and ability of administration according to law.

Third, organically combine administration according to law with the transformation of government functions and management methods. Administration according to law is an important content and necessary means for the transformation of government functions. Water administrative departments at all levels should strengthen administration according to law, sort out and standardize various management functions and behaviors, and bring all government functions into the track of rule of law. We should take safeguarding the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the starting point and the end result of our work, speed up the transformation of government functions and the innovation of government management, do a good job in the system construction of performing government functions, and ensure the correct performance of statutory duties. It is necessary to further deepen the reform of the administrative examination and approval system, gradually solve the problem of inconsistent and uncoordinated implementation of water administrative licensing between river basins and regions, unify administrative licensing matters, administrative licensing conditions, administrative licensing procedures and administrative licensing standards, and implement standardized management of water administrative licensing. It is necessary to further accelerate the construction of e-government, further promote the openness of government affairs, take issues that are of general concern to the people and involve vital interests as the key content of government affairs openness, and constantly expand the content of government affairs openness around the basic situation of administrative subjects and the procedures, methods and results of administrative decision-making, implementation and supervision. It is necessary to combine the promotion of administration according to law, intensify the reform of institutional mechanisms, improve working methods, methods and styles, and comprehensively improve the efficiency of administrative work.

Fourth, we should further strengthen the construction of water administration supervision team. At present, half of the listed water supervision teams have not been compiled, and half of the more than 60 thousand water supervision personnel are part-time. These two "halves" show that the construction of water administration supervision team still faces many difficulties and the task is very arduous. All localities should put the construction of institutions and teams in a prominent position, actively strive for and act positively, ask for more instructions, report more situations and reflect more difficulties, publicize the requirements of the Ministry of Water Resources and good practices in other places, and do everything possible to win the attention of leaders, the support of relevant departments and social participation. Water conservancy administrative departments at all levels should play an important role in water conservancy according to law with a high sense of responsibility and mission, strengthen professional guidance, supervision and inspection, and at the same time strengthen cooperation and cooperation with other internal departments of water conservancy, understand and support each other, further promote capacity building, straighten out internal relations, and explore comprehensive law enforcement channels. In accordance with the requirements of "strengthening the internal quality and shaping the external image", we should strengthen the political education and professional training of water administration supervisors and continuously improve the quality and ability of the team. Engaged in water administration supervision, the mission is glorious, the responsibility is great, sometimes dangerous, sometimes tempting. We should dare to face difficulties, be responsible, be willing to contribute, and establish an image of civilization, honesty, justice and diligence. Water administrative departments at all levels should create necessary working conditions for water administration supervision, solve problems such as law enforcement equipment, office conditions and funds for handling cases, and care about the work, life and study of water administration supervision personnel. Having said that, I want to emphasize that the party group of the Ministry attaches great importance to strengthening and improving water administrative law enforcement. Regarding the existing problems, Minister Wang asked the Department of Political Science and Law to seriously study the specific measures to solve them. Recently, for example, the Ministry issued a notice to purchase personal accident insurance for censors. Experience in some areas shows that the key to solving problems lies in whether leaders attach importance to it. Water law enforcement funds are a budget item, and the policy in this regard is clear. It is hoped that the leaders of water administrative departments at all levels will actively strive for the support of the financial department and earnestly implement it.

Comrades, promoting water conservancy administration according to law is a concrete action to implement the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 4th and 5th Plenary Sessions of the 16th National Congress, an important measure to build a government ruled by law and promote the sustainable development of water conservancy, and an important mission of water conservancy workers. Under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, we should conscientiously implement the basic strategy of governing the country according to law, firmly establish and implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, work hard, forge ahead, strive to promote water conservancy according to law, provide legal guarantee and policy support for comprehensively promoting the sustainable development of water conservancy, and make new contributions to building a government ruled by law!

Thank you all.