治国先治水——党的三代领导人对水利战略地位的认识

The Understandings of the Three - Generation Leaders of the Party On the Strategic Role of Irrigation

中国是一个水旱灾害严重的国家,兴修水利历来是治国安邦的大事。新中国建立以来,毛泽东、周恩来、邓小平等老一辈革命家,以江泽民为核心的党的第三代领导集体,都十分重视兴修水利,始终把水利放在战略的高度来认识,随着国家建设事业的发展,对水利战略地位的认识,已经从“水利是农业的命脉”提高到水利要“为社会经济全面服务”,进而又提高到水利是“国民经济的基础产业”。

Because China is a country suffered from serious droughts and floods, building irrigation works always is a matter of prime importance to administer the country. Since the foundation of the PRC. the three - generation leaders of the Party all attach importance to building irrigation works and hold it in strategic regard all along. With the development of the state construction, the understandings about the strategic role of irrigation have developed from 'Irrigation is the lifeline of the agriculture' to 'Irrigation should serve the social economy overall and to 'Irrigation is a basic industry of the national economy .