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JAKARTA - China on Monday announced it had built a "largest and most complete" water infrastructure system in the world, with total investment in water conservation projects over the 2021-25 period expected to exceed 5.4 trillion yuan, state media reported.

Water Resources Minister Li Guoying said the total investment during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period is estimated to be 1.6 times higher than the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period, according to the Global Times, quoted from Anadolu September 29.

Since the launch of the 14th Five-Year Plan, China has started 172 large water projects across the country, which accelerates the improvement of its layout, structure and integration of water infrastructure.

By the end of 2024, the Bamboo Curtain Country had built 95,000 reservoirs, 200 large and medium-scale water transfer projects of 6,924 irrigation districts, and 318,000 kilometers (197,596 miles) embankments, creating what officials described as the leading system in the world in terms of scale, functionality and population coverage.

Minister Li also stated that China had developed a system to anticipate flooding to drought.

According to the minister, China now has a reservoir flood capacity of 185.6 billion cubic meters, a embankment that protects 660 million people, and a national flood detention capacity of 109 billion cubic meters.

"Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, losses due to flooding as part of GDP have fallen from 0.28 percent to 0.18 percent," said Minister Li.

At the end of the planned period in 2025, the national water network is expected to cover 80.3 percent of the country's territory. The irrigation agricultural land is projected to reach 72.7 million hectares, while access to rural tap water will expand to 96 percent of the population.