by Wang Shucheng (Minister of Water Resources, P R China)

About the Author

Wang Shucheng graduated in 1959 from the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing, majoring in water engineering. He has long been engaged in technological improvement, development and management of water resources and hydropower. After the devastating flooding around the Yangtze River in 1998, he was appointed Minister of Water Resources.

This book compiles 13 selected addresses and papers on resource-oriented water management by Mr Wang Shucheng, Chinese Minister of Water Resources, from March 1999 to June 2005. In view of the economic and social development in China, as well as the current situation of Chinese water resources, the author proposes China should transit from project-based water management to resources-oriented water management, from traditional water management to modern and sustainable water management. The book systematically expounds the theoretical implications and practical basis for resource-oriented water management and addresses a series of questions related to water resources development and management.

• From Project-based Water Management to Resource-oriented Water Management: Advance China's Water Management towards the 21st Century
• About People's Perception Change of Water in Nine Aspects
• Theoretical Implication and Practical Basis of Resource-oriented Water Management
• Water Rights and Water Market — Economic Measures for Achieving Optimal Allocation of Water Resources
• Water Rights Management and Water-saving Society
• Analysis, Readjustment and Control of Water Environment Carrying Capacity
• Essential Features, Theoretical Foundation and Institutional Assurance of Resource-oriented Water Management
• Essential Points for Building a Water-saving Society
• Some More Thoughts on Harmonious Coexistence Between Man and Nature
• Transfer of Water Rights Is an Important Means to Optimize Allocation of Water Resources
• On Dams and Ecology
• River-basin Authorities Should Speak for the Rivers
• Plan C: A Self-disciplined Development Pattern