我國已全面建立河長制 省級河長402人

The river chief system has been established in all 31 provincial regions on the Chinese mainland half a year earlier than planned, with 300,000 officials appointed as chiefs to protect water bodies, said E Jingping, minister of water resources, at a news conference last Tuesday.

上週二，水利部部長鄂竟平在新聞發佈會上表示，內地31個省級地區提前半年全面建立河長制，共明確省、市、縣、鄉四級河長30萬名，以推動水體保護。

He also said 402 of the river chiefs are provincial level officials and 59 of them are heads of their provinces.

他還指出，其中省級領導擔任河長的有402人，59人是省區市的黨政主要負責人。

All but two of the provincial regions have also appointed 760,000 river chiefs at the village level.

除了兩個省區市，其餘各省區市還設立了超過76萬名的村級河長。

China first appointed local government officials as river chiefs in 2007 to address the pollution woes of a blue algae outbreak in Taihu Lake, Jiangsu province.

2007年，江蘇太湖爲解決藍藻大規模爆發引發的污染難題，任命當地政府官員爲河長，在全國首創河長制。

The practice was later adopted in several regions with rich water resources to ensure strong enforcement of environmental policies and enhanced coordination of different government bodies.

這一做法後來在幾個擁有豐富水資源的地區被採用，以確保強有力地執行環境政策，並加強不同政府機構的協調。

In December 2016, the central government released a document ordering the system, which is linked to the performance evaluations of top officials, to be established nationwide by the end of 2018.

2016年12月，中央政府發佈了一份文件，要求在2018年底前，在全國範圍內建立起與政府高層官員的績效評估有關的系統。

While government officials will be hired as river chiefs at provincial, prefecture, county and township levels, heads of provincial regions will be general chiefs that are responsible for all rivers and lakes in their region, according to the document.

該文件指出，儘管有被任命爲省、區、縣和鄉級的河長的政府官員，但各省的主要負責人將擔任本地區所有河流和湖泊的總河長。