Acknowledging the importance of major conservancy projects on river management, Guan Xifan, an official of the rural economy department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said central investment will be put in place in a timely manner to ensure the project's construction, and efforts will be made on maintenance to promote their long-term stability.

　　The importance of employing a digital twin hydraulic system was emphasized by Chen in enhancing the coordinated management of these engineering solutions. This system enables the dynamic simulation of flood scenarios, continual refinement of scheduling plans, and the coordination of flood control engineering systems in a systematic, scientific, secure and precise manner.

　　In addition, Chen emphasized the need for an enhanced monitoring and forecasting system for rainfall, as well as an optimized distribution of meteorological and hydrological monitoring stations. This will help improve rainfall forecasts, early warnings, simulations and contingency planning, thereby extending the lead time for forecasting and improving the accuracy of flood disaster predictions.

　　Specifically, the country's hydrological monitoring stations have increased from 70,000 in 2012 to 130,000 this year, with flooding forecast precision exceeding 90 percent for major rivers in the south and 70 percent for major rivers in the north, Wang Baoen, vice-minister of water resources, said in a recent interview with Outlook Weekly news magazine.