Research On The Collaborative Governance Of River Chief System In The Yellow River Basin

The river chief system is a series of prominent water problems such as water shortage,water environmental pollution and water ecological damage,and a major institutional innovation to improve river management and protection,which is conducive to further promoting the construction of ecological civilization and implementing the green development concept.The nine provinces(autonomous regions)in the Yellow River basin have actively implemented the requirement of river length system,and all of them have established the river chief system by the end of June 2018.However,the regulation and protection of the Yellow River cannot be accomplished in one stroke,and it must be a long-term,complicated and arduous systematic engineering.The river chief system as an innovative system,still have many fields to be studied in depth.This paper takes the river chief system as the research object,through literature research,case analysis and interviews,analyzes the internal and external coordination of the river chief system,it is found that there exists various fragmentation in the collaboration of the river chief system in the Yellow River Basin.There are still many problems need to be resolved,the main performance includes difficult to coordinate the water affairs of the Yellow River across provinces,difficult to coordinate the organization of member departments by the office of the river director,difficult to share the information of the Yellow River among different regions,play a limited role in the coordination between the river chief system and the River Basin institutions,and the "two-skins problem" of comprehensive river basin planning and the regional planning,and so on.Through in-depth analysis,this paper considers the problems mainly due to insufficient supply of laws and regulations,insufficient development of river system construction along the Yellow River,and differences between the goal pursuit of river basin overall management and river chief system regional management.In view of the existing problems,uses the theoretical basis of collaborative governance and bases on the actual Yellow River,this paper proposes the following countermeasures and suggestions for promoting the coordinated effects of the river chief system.The first is to build a legal system for collaborative governance,the second is to strengthen the institutional construction of collaborative governance,the third is to speed up the construction of river chief system along the Yellow River,and the fourth is to ensure the integrated river basin planning is consistent with the regional planning.It is hoped that through research of this paper could improve the efficiency of collaborative governance of the river chief system in the Yellow River basin,and provide useful ideas for advancing the modernization of the governance system and capacity of the Yellow River Basin.