White Elephant or Golden Goose? An Assessment of Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project from the Perspective of Regional Water Use Efficiency

Cheng, Zhe; Zhao, Yuntong; Song, Tao; Cheng, Le; Wang, Wenbin

doi:10.1007/s11269-022-03405-9

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“…Existing studies have pointed out that water transfer does not directly impact the change of GDP. 68 However, high price of transferred water is an issue in water-receiving cities. To cover construction and maintenance costs of the water transfer projects, users have to pay higher prices for the water, increasing economic pressures on local governments, factories, and residents.…”

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“… 31 , 57 Water efficiency was defined as the extent to which water resources contribute to urban economic growth and was measured by the proportion of water consumption to the local GDP and calculated by water consumption per GDP (WCG), which is widely used as an indicator to measure water efficiency. 68 The portion of the city using transferred water was measured by the RTW index, calculated by the ratio of water transferred is the proportion of the local water consumption used by non-local water, which reflects how much non-local water was used by urban development. High risk and cost are two features of transferred water 71 , 72 ; thus, the less water transferred, the better.…”

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Improving water efficiency is more effective in mitigating water stress than water transfer in Chinese cities

Liu,

Han,

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Improving water efficiency is more effective in mitigating water stress than water transfer in Chinese cities

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Han,

et al. 2024

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“…The smaller the entropy value, the smaller the data disorder, and the more information provided, the greater the weight (Li, Liu, & Qiu, 2020). Therefore, the entropy method has widely applied in the academic community (Cai et al, 2021; Cheng, Zhao, et al, 2023; Zhao et al, 2021). The weight in this study can be calculated according to the entropy value.…”

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Paving the Way for a Sustainable Society: Assessing the Inclusive Tourism Development in Transition China

Cheng,

Wang,

et al. 2023

The Journal of Environment & Development

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Inclusive tourism is a key part of an increasingly sustainable tourism development and harmony society. However, the degree, characteristics, and shortcomings of regional inclusive tourism development remain understudied. To holistically understand and describe the development of inclusive tourism in China, we develop an assessment model for inclusive tourism development from three dimensions: tourism stakeholders, economic inclusion, and tourism resources and environments. The spatial pattern and characteristics of China’s provincial inclusive tourism development is measured and classified. Furthermore, we conduct an in-depth discussion combined with specific indicators and propose the targeted suggestions. This study provides a basis for optimizing policies and practices of inclusive tourism in China. In addition, this study also contributes to the global body of knowledge surrounding inclusive tourism and provides the referee value for other countries.

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“…Three routes constitute up the SNWDP. The Eastern Route was a reconstruction and upgrading of the Grand Canal developed during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which consisted of diverted rivers and inland lakes [10,11]. In the past, this canal was used by traders along the Yangtze River in China to move products from the Yangtze River basin to the Yellow River basin; The SNWDP's east route's water transfer volume surpassed 5.288 billion cubic meters in 2022.…”

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“…As a significant national project, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project comes with a high cost. Over the years, there has been significant taxpayer interest in whether the project can achieve its goal of driving economic development in practice and the mechanisms through which the project affects the economy in the recipient areas [10]. To address this contemporary need, scholars like Hu and others have discussed the cost changes resulting from the impact of the South-to-North Water Diversion project from the perspective of engineering safety, particularly the cost increase caused by ground subsidence resulting from the project [19].…”

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Does the South-to-North Water Diversion Project promote the growth of enterprises above designated size in the water-receiving areas?—Evidence from 31 provincial-level administrative regions in China

Wang,

Chi

2024

PLoS ONE

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The South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) is believed to drive the next phase of sustainable productivity growth, meeting growing water demand, so as to address increasing environmental sustainability challenges. The Middle Route of SNWDP is regarded as an extremely large long-distance inter-basin water diversion project, which has benefited Henan, Hebei, Tianjin and Beijing since 2014 with great sustainable changes to the cities, groundwater, ecological environment, industrial structure and social development of the beneficiary areas. Taking the number of industrial enterprises above designated size (IEDS) in the water-receiving areas as the research object, this paper takes the year of policy implementation 2014 as the basic time point, evaluating the change of the number of IEDS in the beneficiary areas of the Middle Route of SNWDP through difference-in-difference model. The results show that: (1) The Middle Route of SNWDP promotes the additional growth of the number of IEDS in the beneficiary areas. (2) When the Middle Route of SNWDP promotes the growth of the number of IEDS in beneficiary areas, there is no regional difference for regions with different development levels. (3) The reasons why the Middle Route of SNWDP contributes to the additional growth of the number of IEDS are composed of promoting mixed ownership reform of enterprises in beneficiary areas, increasing water supply and increasing population. However, the Middle Route of SNWDP has not had a significant impact on the traditional total factor productivity or the components of production factors, technology and capital. From the final outcome, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has played a facilitating role in the sustainable development of large-scale enterprises in the water-receiving areas.

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White Elephant or Golden Goose? An Assessment of Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project from the Perspective of Regional Water Use Efficiency

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

Improving water efficiency is more effective in mitigating water stress than water transfer in Chinese cities

Improving water efficiency is more effective in mitigating water stress than water transfer in Chinese cities

Paving the Way for a Sustainable Society: Assessing the Inclusive Tourism Development in Transition China

Does the South-to-North Water Diversion Project promote the growth of enterprises above designated size in the water-receiving areas?—Evidence from 31 provincial-level administrative regions in China

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