南水北调中线工程与汉江中下游地区可持续发展

汉江是长江最大的支流，汉江中下游地区是湖北省经济基础最强的地区。同时汉江流域也存在着洪涝灾害威胁大、水资源开发利用水平不高、环境建设和生态保护力度不够、传统的工农业生产方式和产业结构加重环境的恶化、管理体制不顺等问题。南水北调中线工程以及配套工程的实施，对汉江流域的经济发展将起推动作用，同时从汉江的丹江口水库调水，将改变汉江中下游的水资源分配，社会经济发展与生态环境的协调将会出现新的矛盾。要解决好流域经济发展问题，必须把握好建设南水北调中线工程的机遇，更新观念，加强前期研究和规划，注重生态环境的保护和示范工程的建设，建立相应的政策法规和流域管理体制，全面保证汉江中下游地区的可持续发展。

EFFECT OF THE MIDDLE ROUTE PROJECT OF SOUTH TO NORTH WATER TRANSFER ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MIDDLE AND LOWER REACHES OF HANJIANG RIVER

Hanjiang River is the largest branch of the Yangtze River and also the middle and lower reaches are the highest intensive economic bases of Hubei Province. Hanjiang Basin also meets some obstacles such as the great threat from flooding, lower level of water resource use, faint construction of environment and ecology, environment deqradation by traditional agriculture and industry, and inefficient management of water resources. The middle route project of South to North Water Transfer and related projects will drive the local economic development, but reduce water from the upper reach of Hanjiang River, thus changing the water resource distribution in the middle and lower reaches with some conflicting consequences between social economic development and eco-environment. It is necessary to grasp the opportunity of the middle route project of South to North Water Transfer, and to renovate the idea and study the program, and to pay attention to the eco-environment protection and project construction,as well as to establish correspond- ing police and law and the drainage area management department, to guarantee the sustainable develop- ment in the middle and lower reaches of Hanjiang River.