Market-Oriented Reform: Lessons from Rural Water Supply Improvement in Yueqing City (1991–2000)

Xingrui Lu

doi:10.62051/ijsspa.v9n1.11

Authors

Xingrui Lu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62051/ijsspa.v9n1.11

Keywords:

Rural Drinking Water, Market-Oriented, Management System

Abstract

During China’s Eighth and Ninth Five-Year Plans, Yueqing City made remarkable progress in improving rural drinking water and was honored as a “National Model City for Universal Tap Water during the Eighth Five-Year Plan.” Its strategies and practices gained broad social recognition. From 1991 to 2000, Yueqing integrated market-oriented principles into rural water supply reform. By expanding regional water supply networks, establishing rural water supply companies with limited liability, and strengthening institutional and managerial frameworks, the city achieved scientific water management, standardized governance, and the commercialization of water supply. These innovations became known as the “Yueqing Experience,” a distinctive contribution to the broader rural water reform process in Zhejiang Province.

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