Maoming has been committed to promoting a river and lake management system in recent years, exploring new water economy formats and providing water conservancy support for rural vitalization and coordinated urban-rural development.

The beautiful Meihua River. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]

Maoming places heavy importance on water area governance and shoreline management, promotes shoreline greening, and has completed a total length of 25.5 kilometers of ecological shorelines this year. It has established a county-level management mechanism for river and lake cleaning and is working to solve problems such as encroachment on shorelines and littering.

Maoming has also formulated a city-wide water network plan, implemented comprehensive treatment of small and medium-sized rivers, and made up for shortcomings in flood control and water resource utilization. Maoming has also invested approximately 567 million yuan ($79.02 million) in the comprehensive management of the Genzi River.

The Genzi River in Gaozhou city. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]

Maoming has cleaned more than 2,500 km of rivers. The first batch of 11 rivers has been evaluated and approved by experts. It carries out projects such as "water + agriculture, culture, tourism," promoting the creation of rural cultural night markets and rural night economy demonstration belts, transforming the high-quality ecological products of rivers and lakes into the water economy and driving the upgrading of industries and the improvement of urban functions along rivers.

Maoming has made achievements in developing river and lake management systems and water area governance, improving the quality of the environment.