Analysis of National Key R&D Program of China “high-efficient development and utilization of water resource”

National Key R&D Program of China "high-efficient development and utilization of water resource" is one of the first batch of programs launched in 2016 after reform of the national science and technology program management. Based on the practical situation of water resources in China and the advances of water science in domestic and overseas, improvement of scientifically supporting water resources security was targeted as the overall purposes of the program, the scientific issues and main tasks to be solved were formulated as well by innovatively designing and layout for whole chain elements. The general framework, scientific goals, main tasks, and the general information of projects application are discussed in the paper. The future advices aiming at the problems existing in the projects application in 2016 and 2017, the possible major tasks in further studies are addressed, which has an important guiding role to strengthen the program management and ensure that the overall objectives are achieved.