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ICID WatSave Awards The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) decided at its 48th IEC meeting held in September 1997 at Oxford, UK to institute the ICID Watsave Annual Award(s), which includes Technology Award aiming at promoting research that leads to substantial savings in water applications or uses, besides demonstrated savings in a project or allied areas; Innovative Water Management Award aiming at promoting development of new policies/approaches for water saving leading to cost effective and efficient use of water; and Young Professionals Award aiming at promoting all the above activities listed for the two ICID's Awards but to be conferred only to "Young Professionals" up to the age of 40 years. Since then the award(s) have been presented each year to an individual or a team of individuals for OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION to water conservation/water saving for increasing the beneficial and/or efficient use of water to develop and improve the sustainable use of the critical resource. The award aims at: Promoting and encouraging the best technological applications or projects which have been successful in saving and/or recovering waste waters/low quality waters Promoting other non-technological interventions and/or innovative land and water management/techniques for increasing the availability of water for different uses. Promoting research that leads to substantial savings in water applications or uses. Promoting development of new policies/approaches for water saving leading to cost effective and beneficial use of water. The YEAR 2005 award(s) will be invited after the 55th meeting of the International Executive Council, Moscow, Russia. Best Performing National Committee ICID has instituted a new Award to recognize the best performing ICID National Committee. The Award will be presented in the form of Revolving Shield and a Citation Plaque at every Congress triennially based on various facets demonstrated by the participating National Committees between two ICID Congresses over a three year period. The Revolving Shield will move to the next award winner every three years with an inscription about the past winner. The Citation Plaque will remain with the award winning National Committee. The first award has been presented at the time of 18th ICID Congress, Montreal in July 2002 to Korean National Committee (KCID) for its outstanding achievements and contribution to ICID activities in the years 1999 to 2002. LAND AND WATER RESOURCES IN CHINA Administration China is composed of 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, and 4 municipalities directly under the Central Government, and two special administrative regions. Land and water resources China has a territory of 9.6 million square kilometers, accounting for 1/15 of the total land area in the world. The total amount of water resources is 2800 billion cubic meters, including 2700 billion cubic meters of river runoff. However, the per capita water resources is only 2200 cubic meters, which is only one third of the world¡¯s average. Land use In China today, 130 million ha of land are cultivated. But the per capita cultivated area is around 0.10 ha, only 1/3 of the world¡¯s average. Forests blanket 133.7 million ha of China. Grasslands in China cover an area of 400 million ha, stretching 3,000 km from the northeast to the southwest. Climate China has a marked continental monsoon climate. But the precipitation is unevenly distributed, varying from 1500 mm in the southeast coastal areas to less than 50 mm in the northwestern inland. China¡¯s complex and varied climate results in great variety of temperature. The comfortable month is September with average high temperature 28.5 degree Celsius to average low temperature 15.0 degree Celsius. History and Culture The Chinese civilization has a recorded history of more than 5,000 years. China¡¯s traditional culture, which has a long history, has two sources, Confucianism represented by Confucius and Taoism represented by Laozi. Among the best-known cultural attainments and pursuits of the Chinese people are silk, pottery-and-porcelain making, architecture, gardening, stone caves, stone engraving and ancient books and records. Many ancient projects, which are a crystallization of the wisdom and strength of the Chinese people, have become part of the cultural heritage of the nation. Such projects include the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, Dujiangyan Water Diversion Project and Underground Channels in Xinjiang. The Chinese nation includes Han and 55 minority nationalities with diversified customs and cultures. The Han people are distributed most widely with concentration in northeast China and in the catchment areas of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, the 55 minority groups, despite having a relatively small combined population, are widely scattered with unique cultures. Agriculture China¡¯s major grain crops are rice, wheat, maize, soybeans and tuber crops, of which the output of rice, wheat and maize account for 2/5, 1/5 and 1/4 of the total output of grains. Cash crops include cotton, peanuts, rape, sesame, sugarcane, tea, tobacco, mulberry and fruit. China has more than 300 million ha of exploitable grasslands and a great number of over 400 species of domestic animals, including pigs, cattle, sheep, horses, donkeys, mules, camels, chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits. Since the inception of reform and opening up, China has maintained a high growth rate in grain production. In early 1990s, China¡¯s grain output stood at around 450 million tons. In mid-1990s, China realized the historic transformation from a prolonged short supply of major agricultural products to a general equilibrium in demand and supply and even supply surplus in abundant years. In 1996-2002, China¡¯s grain production underwent a big swing. The sowing area first increased and then decreased due to agricultural restructuring and implementation of the policy of returning cultivated land to forests, pastures and lakes to improve agricultural eco-system. In this period, China¡¯s grain output was 485 million tons in average. From 1996-2002, China¡¯s output of meat products (pork, beef, muttons and poultry) increased steadily from 45.8 million tons to 65.9 million tons; egg production increased from 19.7 million tons to 24.6 million tons; output of dairy products jumped from 7.4 million tons to 14.0 million tons; output of aquatic products grew rapidly from 28.1 million tons to 45.6 million tons. In 1996-2002, China¡¯s vegetable and fruit production enjoyed rapid growth due to strong market demand. The output of vegetable jumped from 223.2 million tons to 528.6 million tons. The fruit output increased from 46.5 million tons to 69.5 million tons. In parallel with China¡¯s economic development from the 1980s onward, the Chinese Government introduced a number of large, consistent and productive programmes for poverty alleviation and rural development, resulting in over 200 million rural poor having their basic needs of food, clothing and shelter. From 1996 to 2002, the net per capita income of rural households increased from 1,926 yuan to 2,476 yuan, an average annual increase of 4.27%, while the Engle Coefficient of rural households dropped from 56.3% to 46.2%. ¡¡ |
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