Summing-up Meeting of Comprehensive Scientific Survey on Soil Erosion and Eco-Security in China and Workshop on Soil and Water Conservation Development Strategy was held in Beijing on November 20, 2008. Director General Yu Xingjun of CWMP Steering Committee was invited to introduce the project. The meeting was sponsored jointly by Ministry of Water Resources, Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Academy of Engineering, and was attended by representatives mainly from Central Financial and Economic Leading Group Office, Research Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources, as well as members of the scientific survey, including Ms. Qian Zhengying, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and former Vice Chairman of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference, Minister Chen Lei of MWR, and Vice Minister E Jingping, and General Engineer Liu Ning.
Director General Yu Xingjun introduced representatives CWMP in its background, M & E, pilot construction and dissemination, with focal points of its unique characteristics from traditional soil and water conservation projects. He said, the sub-watershed sustainable management models summarized by CWMP boiled down to integrated consideration of social, economic and ecological features, they were under the guarantee of government’s support, community-driven development, poverty alleviation and capacity building. It further identified the applicability of the sub-watershed comprehensive management models that had been insisted on by the nation, and also identified the positive effects of participatory approach and capacity building on soil and water conservation.
Academician Sun Honglie highly appreciated the report delivered by Mr. Yu Xingjun, he fully confirmed what CWMP had done in taking social, economic and ecological features into account, and he noted that participatory approach could help stakeholders recognized the project measures and strengthen the effects of soil and water conservation.