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The TA is aligned with the following impact: ecological security and sustainable development of the YREB safeguarded. The TA will have the following outcome: ecological security monitoring and supervision mechanism in the YREB improved. The TA will have the following outputs: (i) assessment of the application of the river chief system in YREB; (ii) demonstration of ecological security monitoring system in Chishui River basin; and (iii) improvement of the institutional capacity for ecological management in YREB.
Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy
The proposed knowledge and support technical assistance will support strengthening of the ecological security mechanism for the Yangtze River Economic Belt in the Peoples Republic of China. The TA will assist the Yangtze Water Resources Commission (YWRC), a river basin authority under the Ministry of Water Resources of the PRC, to improve ecological security monitoring and supervision, evaluation of effectiveness of ecological protection programs, and coordination with the provinces for ecological security in the Yangtze River basin.
Given that PRCs water and ecological status remains fragile and the environmental safety situation is grim, the State Council of the PRC has recently issued the ecological red-line strategy in safeguarding national ecological safety. The strategy statement implies the demarcation of the border and calibration of the regions for ecological security (red-line) system to be established by 2020 nationwide. The strategy will apply in the regions with important ecological functions, including water and soil conservation, biodiversity maintenance as well as windbreak and sand-fixation, along with ecologically-fragile regions which are prone to soil erosion, desertification, and salinization. The strategy prioritizes the YREB for ecological security. The Government of the PRC requested a TA from the Asian Development Bank for the Study on Ecological Security Mechanism for Yangtze River Economic Belt. |
