Reservoir volunteers urged to make new contributions

President Xi Jinping has encouraged environmental volunteers to promote water conservation and contribute to the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature ahead of China's second National Ecology Day, which falls on Thursday.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in a reply letter, dated Tuesday, to the volunteers for the Danjiangkou Reservoir in Shiyan, Hubei province.

Danjiangkou is the water source for the middle route of the nation's South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Among the three routes of the project, the middle route begins at the Danjiangkou Reservoir and runs through Henan and Hebei provinces before reaching Beijing and Tianjin. It began supplying water on Dec 12, 2014.