Field Survey on China Water Institutions and Management Led by Jinxia Wang has been Finished Successfully

Release date：2012/6/25　　Source： ccap

      Collaborated with Prof. Qiuqiong Huang from Minnesota University, Prof.Jinxia Wang from the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences has organized the field survey for the project of the China Water Institutions and Management survey (CWIM),in Ningxia and Henan Provinces (located in the Yellow River Basin) and Hebei Provinces (located in the Haihe River Basin). The survey was conducted from 18 April to 18 May in 2012. This survey is the fourth round of a panel survey, the first round of which was conducted in 2001, the second and third round surveys were conducted in 2005 and 2008. This survey covered 4 counties in Hebei, 6 counties in Henan, and 5 counties in Ningxia. The survey includes 4 types of forms: village form, household form, surface water manager form, and groundwater manager form. Enumerators interviewed totally 88 village leaders, 352 households, 59 canal managers and 118 tubewell managers. The contents of survey forms are quite broad including more than 10 sections focusing on water resource scarcity, water management (e.g. Water User Association, water quota management, water rights and water trade, water tickets management, etc.), crop water use, agricultural production, water saving technology, government policies and regulations, and basic socio-economic conditions.

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