Abstract:

 For a long period of time, as far as the average annual runoff of the river is concerned, Tibet' s water resources are most abundant in China. It is the area where China' s major strategic storage of water resources or China' s most important potential of water resources will produce. During the 21st century, under the background of the global water crisis and China' s big shortage of fresh water resources, a great importance will be attached to water resources as national or international strategies. The reasonable usage and reproducible maintaining of water resources in Tibet will influence the durable development, the friendly relations, the regional corporation, the ecological security and the national defense between China and its neighboring countries. The water resources thus become one of the principal factors of restricting Tibet's economical development. Transforming the potential advantage of water resources in Tibet into the actual advantage is the best support to its economical development, also to China' s economical development. This project will be most important in strategy.