With the entire country entering this year's main flood season, characterized by regional and sequential occurrences of droughts and flood disasters, Chen stressed that the ministry has ramped up efforts to prevent casualties, dam collapses and breaches in vital embankments, as well as minimize the impact on critical infrastructure.

　　Efforts have been made to prioritize synergy between river basins and regions, along with the integration of engineering and nonengineering solutions, aimed at improving resilience to climate change and strengthening preparedness for extreme rainstorms.

　　This includes optimizing flood control engineering system encompassing reservoirs, river channels, embankments and flood detention areas, as well as strengthening the active control capacity over floods by comprehensively utilizing measures such as flood storage, flood detention, flood discharge and flood drainage.

　　“The country has made overall plans for the construction of water networks, which include major projects targeting at flood control and water supply in the river basins,“ said Zhang Xiangwei, director of the ministry's planning department.

　　Zhang cited that the newly established 24 large-scale reservoirs, including the Datengxia water resources management facility in the Pearl River Basin and the Dashimen facility in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, have collectively increased water supply ability of 3.46 billion cubic meters and flood control capacity by 2.66 billion cubic meters. Moreover, the ongoing construction of 31 water basin flood control projects and key water resources projects is expected to raise an additional 4.9 billion cubic meters of water supply capacity and 3.67 billion cubic meters of the flood control capacity.