Keynote Speakers

Abstract: Yangtze River (YR) is the largest river in China and the 3rd largest river in the world with 6,397 km long and the area of 1.8million km2. It plays a key role for China socio-economic sustainable development due to occupying total 40% of both the population, and the GDP in China, 34% of water resources and food product. However, YR faces a big challenge on its green development due to water & environmental issue under the climate change and significant land use & cover change. Eco-water issue, particularly, becomes one of most important water issues at YR, such as, Chinese sturgeon has disappeared, finless porpoise & “four major domesticated carps” have been greatly reduced, lake nutrification and water environmental issue. Eco-water security becomes a most important issue and promote the integrated system approach that gives solutions for eco-water security & wisely managing water. This paper addresses the issue of eco-water security and the green development that means to describe the effort to go about the process of developing a system model for a river system or city and country in a manner that takes into account the environmental and ecological needs of that community. Approach of eco-hydrology and its practice are proposed and applied to guidance to solution on how to assess and wisely managing Yangtze River through a system integration way, applied to multi-dimensional for water, biodiversity, ecological services, resilience, to maintain ecological and human development in a sustainably way. Some of case studies are given as expiations of Yangtze River Simulator, supported to ecohydrology.

Key Words: Eco-water security, Green development, Integrated system approach, Yangtze River

Biography: Prof. Jun Xia is the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Chair Professor & Director, The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University, also Director, Center for Water Resources Research (CWRR), CAS. He has ample experiences on leading hydrology, water resources research, managing and consulting jobs in China and international since 1987. He was severed as the President of International Water Resources Association (IWRA, 2009-2012), Board Governor of World Water Council (WWC, 2009-2015), Co-Chair, Inter Academy Council for Water Programme (2004-2010), Bureau Member for International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) since 2019. He was awarded “International Hydrological Prize -Volker Medal”, given by IAHS, UNESCO and WMO in 2014, the 2017’s State Natural Science Award in China and 2019’s IUGG Elected Fellow.