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人工补给发展历史Milestones of Groundwater Management in China
人工补给发展历史Milestones of Groundwater Management in China
implementation, and promoted rural water improvement (Ministry of Water Resources of China 2020), China’s
and water conservation. By 2000, the number of new wells groundwater resources (mineralization <2 g/L) was
in the city was limited to <20 per year, and the annual 855.35 billion m3 , 6.1% higher than the multi-year
water extraction volume was controlled to <100 million average through the latest data from the National
m3 , down from its historical peak of 200 million m3 . The Groundwater Monitoring Project. Among them, the
groundwater level rebounded significantly, and the aver- amount of groundwater resources in the plain area
age annual subsidence of the ground was limited to about was 202.24 billion m3 . After the ground subsidence of
10 mm, effectively curbing ongoing subsidence. These the entire North China Plain and the overexploitation
efforts demonstrate the importance of sustainable ground- of groundwater began to attract attention, the shallow
water management practices in preventing environmental groundwater level in the Northeast Plain, and the middle
degradation and ensuring long-term resource availability. and lower reaches of the Yangtze River generally rose in
As a country with relatively weak per capita water 2020. The historical wheels of groundwater exploitation
resources (accounting for about 1/4 of the world average), and utilization have never stopped, and the management
according to the Water Resources Bulletin in 2020 reins of the process have been pulled.