Yunnan Sayu River Tender

Project Number 52025-001DescriptionThe project will improve the condition of water resources and the environment by i strengthening wastewater management and pollution control with innovative technologies and arrangements ii improving water resources management with innovative information technologies iii establishing eco-compensation mechanisms and iv strengthening education capacity and public awareness for water pollution management. The project is envisaged to i play a demonstrative role for rural areas with water pollution ii promote regional public goods by reversing the negative impacts of pollution and iii reduce the risk of future epidemics which is strongly required after the coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic.The Yangtze River Economic Belt YREB covers nine provinces and two specially administered cities in the Yangtze River Basin. It accounts for more than 40 of the PRCs population and has 40 of the freshwater resources. It also serves as the drinking water source for 400 million people provides 60 of the total fisheries production has 20 of the total wetland area and contributes about 45 of the PRCs economic output. The YREB has been earmarked as one of three key growth engines to ensure the PRCs future economic development. The YREB has benefited from extensive development since the 1990s. Yet economic growth in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River Basin is lagging and below its potential capacity. The middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River Basin still face significant development challenges because of i slow transformation for green development and economic diversification ii limited integration of waterways ports and intermodal logistics iii increasing pollution and pressure on natural resources and iv weak institutional coordination for strategic planning. The YREB faces a growing imbalance between economic achievements and the quality of the environment. For example since 1980 water pollution in the Yangtze River Basin has risen by 73 because of the discharge of waste soil erosion which is critical in small watersheds and agriculture-related nonpoint source NPS pollution. To address these challenges the Government of the PRC formulated the YREB Development Plan 2016-20306 which stipulates the prioritization of ecological protection and the promotion of green development as the guiding principle for the YREB development. In relation to this the Asian Development Bank ADB and the government agreed to adopt a framework approach providing about 2.0 billion of funding in the YREB during 2018-2020 to strategically program ADBs lending support for development initiatives in the YREB prioritizing the following four areas i ecosystem restoration environmental protection and water resources management ii green and inclusive industrial transformation iii construction of an integrated multimodal transport corridor and iv instit