近日,国家发展和改革委员会、水利部、国家卫生和计划生育委员会、环境保护部和财政部联合印发了《农村饮水安全工程建设管理办法》(以下简称《办法》),对农村饮水安全工程职责分工、项目实施、资金管理、建后管理等方面作出了详细规定。《办法》规定,农村饮水安全保障实行行政首长负责制,地方政府对农村饮水安全负总责,中央给予指导和资金支持。农村饮水安全工程投资由中央、地方和受益群众共同负担。中央对东、中、西部地区实行差别化的投资补助政策,加大对中西部 Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Water Resources, the State Commission on Health and Family Planning, the MEP and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the Administrative Measures on the Construction of Rural Drinking Water Safety Project (hereinafter referred to as the Measures) Division of labor, project implementation, capital management, post-construction management and other aspects made detailed provisions. The Measures stipulate that the administrative responsibility system for rural drinking water safety and security shall be implemented in the rural areas and that local governments shall be responsible for the safety of drinking water in rural areas while the Central Government shall give guidance and financial support. Investment in rural drinking water safety projects by the central government, local and beneficiary people share. The Central Government has implemented a differentiated investment subsidy policy on the eastern, central and western regions and intensified its efforts on the Midwest