国内英语新闻:Chinese vice premier urges better water conservancy

KUNMING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- China must build more irrigation and water conservancy projects, Vice Premier Wang Yang has said.

Projects should be opened to private investment and the water must be made more affordable to farmers, Wang said at a national irrigation meeting held on Monday and Tuesday in Qujing of the southwestern Yunnan Province.

He said the country will encourage experimentation in irrigation so as to establish best practice.