Water and China’s Green Development

Abstract

The green development is essentially the scientific development. Since the Global Summit on Environment and Development passed the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in 1992, many countries of the world have been working on promoting the sustainable development. As for China, it is undoubtedly a challenging task to construct a trinity of social, economic and natural green development so that it can be closely meshed with the Chinese civilization and organically integrated with the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In this blueprint, the severe water situation has become one of the major restraining factors. With increasing pressure of water shortage, we must protect water resources as what we do to the arable land. The effective and sustainable utilization of water resources through scientific allocation is the key to guarantee and support China’s green and harmonious development.