Abstract:
Modern water conservancy construction of farmland in Shaanxi Province faced a booming decade in the 1930s, which was objectively founded on the economic deterioration caused by the Great Famine of Shaanxi Province in the parallel period. The core of emerging water conservancy construction of farmland is the scientific method and system construction. The system construction includes engineering, water conservancy administration and development of irrigation region. In terms of engineering, the water conservancy construction of farmland of Shaanxi Province was under the unitary plan at the provincial level, taking Guanzhong Area as the core area and the major rivers as pilot projects, and was implemented in both Southern and Northern Shaanxi Province, after which the outdated channels were under systematical regulation. In terms of water conservancy administration, several administrative organizations were established for the first time, including modern engineering construction, project management, and irrigation channel management. The builders of water conservation construction of Shaanxi Province shared the ideal of building a new economy and forming a new type of socioeconomic community in the irrigation region, which although with characteristics of Utopia hardly to be achieved in reality, such sprit is worth of promotion in pursuing local economic development and livelihood improvement.
