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Progress and Prospect of Ecological Compensation Mechanism in Dongjiang River Basin

24 November 2016
On 19 October 2016, the provinces of Jiangxi and Guangdong signed the “Horizontal Ecological Compensation Agreement of Dongjiang River Basin Upstream and Downstream” in Nanchang Province. The agreement stipulates that, based on the water-quality assessment of cross-provincial watershed area, the…

Perspectives on PRC's Water Reform Issue

10 January 2016
Many cities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have grappled with physical and financial challenges in managing water supply and quality primarily because they offer water at highly subsidized rates. To help address this issue, an ADB initiative sought to make water tariffs in PRC market-…

Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project

1 January 2016
Life for about three million people in the People’s Republic of China is about to get better with the cleanup of the Songhua River. In 2005, toxic chemicals spilled into the Songhua River from a petrochemical plant in Jilin Province, which also affected the adjacent Heilongjiang province. The river…