en.Wedoany.com Reported - On July 2, Wang Annan, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of China South-to-North Water Diversion Group, led a delegation to Urumqi for talks with Chen Xiaojiang, Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Party Committee, and Erkin Tuniyaz, Chairman of the Regional Government, as well as He Zhongyou, Deputy Secretary of the Regional Party Committee and Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Zhang Yingchun, Executive Vice Chairman of the Regional Government, Hada Kabin, Member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Regional Party Committee, Ying Xiong, Deputy Secretary of the Group's Party Leadership Group and Director, and Wu Xianfeng, Member of the Group's Party Leadership Group and Vice President, attended the talks.

Chen Xiaojiang, on behalf of the Regional Party Committee, Government, and the Corps, welcomed Wang Annan and his delegation. He stated that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has placed great emphasis on Xinjiang's work, established the Party's strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era, assigned Xinjiang "five strategic positioning" roles within the national framework, mobilized nationwide efforts to support Xinjiang's development, and guided Xinjiang to achieve remarkable economic and social progress. Water resources are key to supporting Xinjiang's high-quality development. In recent years, Xinjiang has leveraged its regional and water conditions, coordinated water conservation, storage, and diversion, and continuously promoted efficient allocation and rational utilization of water resources, further improving water use efficiency and benefits across society. He expressed hope that the South-to-North Water Diversion Group would continue to deepen strategic cooperation with Xinjiang in the water conservancy sector, focusing on modern water network construction, comprehensive water conservation and efficiency enhancement, green and intelligent upgrades of water conservancy projects, watershed systematic management, and water ecological protection and restoration, to jointly plan and implement a batch of key water projects, helping Xinjiang improve the level of water resource conservation, intensive use, and efficient utilization.

Wang Annan expressed gratitude to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Party Committee, Government, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps for their long-standing care and support for China South-to-North Water Diversion Group. Wang Annan stated that as the only central enterprise primarily responsible for ensuring national water security and advancing the construction of the national water network, the Group thoroughly studies and implements the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and instructions, follows the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, focuses on Xinjiang's "five strategic positioning," fulfills its responsibilities as a central enterprise, leverages its own advantages, and actively supports the construction of Xinjiang's modern water network. He expressed hope that both sides would further deepen practical cooperation in areas such as Xinjiang's modern water network construction, investment, construction, and operation of major water diversion projects, and productive services for the modern water network, accelerating the implementation of projects and contributing greater efforts to building a modern socialist Xinjiang and ensuring national water security.

Responsible officials from relevant departments and units of both sides attended the talks.