Study on advancing provincial water budget management in Hebei Province
LI Guozheng
MA Suying
LI Yujia
WANG Senhao
Abstract：Water budget management is an important approach to utilizing water resources prudently and managing them with precision.It serves as a powerful tool for implementing the principle of"defining city,land,population,and production by water",and as a key pathway to establishing a dual-control mechanism for the total amount and intensity of water use.In both 2024 and 2025,the National Water Conservancy Work Conference emphasized the importance of budget management.In 2024,the Ministry of Water Resources issued the Pilot Plan for Water Budget Management,outlining specific tasks.Based on the current situation in Hebei Province regarding planned water use management,water metering,water rights reform,and institutional development,this paper aligns with the requirements of water budget management,analyzes Hebei's progress and main challenges,clarifies the guiding principles and practical pathways for advancing water budget management,and proposes countermeasures in four areas:improving the framework system of water budget management,strengthening data foundations and metering support,addressing key constraints,and improving institutional safeguards.In particular,four measures are proposed to address key constraints:quantifying regional water resources carrying capacity to align water demand with resource availability;accurately verifying water abstraction metering for construction projects and public water supply enterprises to reduce inflated quotas;leveraging administrative allocation and market regulation to recover idle quotas and enable surplus transfers,thereby activating the water budget trading market;and establishing both guaranteed-use and negative-use water resource lists under the principle of"ensuring essential uses while restricting non-essential ones",strengthening the water source allocation system,and securing structured water use allocations.
Keywords：water budget managementwater rights reformwater meteringplanned water useHebei Province
Publication Date：2025-08-12
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：8( 59-66 )