江泽民总书记在中共十四大报告中将“南水北调”工程列为我国跨世纪的四大重点工程之一,这是全国人民十分关注的问题。所谓南水北调,是指把长江流域一部分多余的水通过调水工程送到黄河及其以北地区,向水资源短缺的华北和西北地区补充水源的一个超大型工程系统。它是在50年代初研究黄河、长 General Secretary Jiang Zemin listed the project of “South-to-North Water Diversion” as one of the four major cross-century projects in China in the report of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which is a topic of great concern to people across the country. The so-called “South-to-North Water Diversion Project” refers to a very large-scale engineering system that supplies excess water from the Yangtze River basin to the Yellow River and its north through water transfer projects and supplies water to northern and northwestern areas where water resources are scarce. It is the study of the Yellow River in the early 1950s