ChinaXi Jinping Issues Important Instructions on Further Improving Yellow River Protection and Management, Stressing the Need to Continually Improve the Framework for Comprehensive Protection and Coordination and Strive to Make This Mother River Ever More Beautiful
CCTV.com reports (Xinwen Lianbo): Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, president of China, and chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently issued important instructions on further improving the protection and management of the Yellow River. He noted that 80 years of the Party leading the people in managing the Yellow River have fundamentally changed its historical pattern of "two breaches every three years," creating the miracle of year after year of peaceful waters and fully demonstrating the notable strengths of the socialist system.
央视网消息（新闻联播）：中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平近日对进一步做好黄河保护治理工作作出重要指示指出，党领导人民治理黄河80年，从根本上改变了历史上“三年两决口”的状况，创造了岁岁安澜的奇迹，充分彰显了社会主义制度的显著优势。
Xi Jinping stressed that on the new journey, efforts must be guided by the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, firmly grasp the strategic requirements of prioritizing protection and focusing on management, and adhere to an approach to water management that gives priority to water conservation, balances spatial distribution, pursues systematic management, and brings both government and market forces into play. The framework for comprehensive protection and coordination must be continually improved, ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin advanced in a solid manner, and the national ecological security barrier strengthened. Efforts must ensure the Yellow River's lasting peace and stability, preserve and promote Yellow River culture, and strive to make this mother river ever more beautiful, so that it will forever benefit the Chinese nation and future generations.
习近平强调，新征程上，要以新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，牢牢把握重在保护、要在治理的战略要求，坚持节水优先、空间均衡、系统治理、两手发力的治水思路，持续完善大保护大协同格局，扎实推动黄河流域生态保护和高质量发展，筑牢国家生态安全屏障，保障黄河长治久安，传承弘扬黄河文化，努力让这条母亲河越来越美，永续造福中华民族、惠泽子孙后代。
A meeting on comprehensively advancing Yellow River protection and management was held in Zhengzhou, Henan, on November 2. Xi Jinping's important instructions were conveyed at the meeting. Liu Guozhong, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, attended and spoke. He said General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions are highly political, profound in thought, and strongly instructive, providing important guidance for continued ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin on the new journey, and must be studied and understood in depth and resolutely implemented. A stronger sense of responsibility and mission is needed. In accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, efforts must be made jointly to ensure comprehensive protection and advance coordinated, comprehensive management; focus on ensuring the Yellow River's lasting peace and stability; strengthen the economical and intensive use of water resources; improve coordinated allocation capacity across water network projects; strengthen protection of aquatic ecosystems and the water environment; preserve and promote Yellow River culture; and continually break new ground in Yellow River protection and management.
全面推进黄河保护治理工作会议2日在河南郑州召开。会上传达了习近平重要指示。中共中央政治局委员、国务院副总理刘国中出席会议并讲话。他表示，习近平总书记的重要指示具有很强的政治性、思想性、指导性，为新征程上持续推进黄河流域生态保护和高质量发展提供了重要遵循，必须深入学习领会、坚决贯彻落实。要切实增强责任感和使命感，按照党中央决策部署，共同抓好大保护、协同推进大治理，着力保障黄河长治久安，强化水资源节约集约利用，提升水网工程统筹调配能力，加强水生态环境保护，传承弘扬黄河文化，不断开创黄河保护治理工作新局面。
The meeting heard a briefing on the 80 years in which the Party has led the people in managing the Yellow River. Responsible officials from Qinghai, Gansu, Henan, and Shandong provinces, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Water Resources spoke at the meeting.
会上通报了党领导人民治理黄河80年有关情况。青海省、甘肃省、河南省、山东省、国家发展改革委、水利部负责同志在会上发言。
Responsible officials from relevant departments of central Party and state institutions and relevant provinces and autonomous regions attended.
中央和国家机关有关部门、有关省区负责同志参加会议。
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A meeting on comprehensively advancing Yellow River protection and management was held in Zhengzhou, where Liu Guozhong delivered remarks.
A meeting on comprehensively advancing Yellow River protection and management was held in Zhengzhou, Henan, on November 2. Xi Jinping's important instructions were conveyed at the meeting. Liu Guozhong, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, attended and spoke. He said General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions are highly political, profound in thought, and strongly instructive, providing important guidance for continued ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin on the new journey, and must be studied and understood in depth and resolutely implemented. A stronger sense of responsibility and mission is needed. In accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, efforts must be made jointly to ensure comprehensive protection and advance coordinated, comprehensive management; focus on ensuring the Yellow River's lasting peace and stability; strengthen the economical and intensive use of water resources; improve coordinated allocation capacity across water network projects; strengthen protection of aquatic ecosystems and the water environment; preserve and promote Yellow River culture; and continually break new ground in Yellow River protection and management.Original Chinese quote
全面推进黄河保护治理工作会议2日在河南郑州召开。会上传达了习近平重要指示。中共中央政治局委员、国务院副总理刘国中出席会议并讲话。ReportedBriefing2 November 2026+
The meeting received a briefing on 80 years of Yellow River management by the people under the Party's leadership.
The meeting heard a briefing on the 80 years in which the Party has led the people in managing the Yellow River. Responsible officials from Qinghai, Gansu, Henan, and Shandong provinces, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Water Resources spoke at the meeting.Original Chinese quote
会上通报了党领导人民治理黄河80年有关情况。ReportedInstructionsDate not specified+
Xi Jinping issued important instructions on further improving Yellow River protection and management.
CCTV.com reports (Xinwen Lianbo): Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, president of China, and chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently issued important instructions on further improving the protection and management of the Yellow River. He noted that 80 years of the Party leading the people in managing the Yellow River have fundamentally changed its historical pattern of "two breaches every three years," creating the miracle of year after year of peaceful waters and fully demonstrating the notable strengths of the socialist system.Original Chinese quote
习近平近日对进一步做好黄河保护治理工作作出重要指示