Study on transboundary water issues in China

With the highest concentration of transboundary water, the northeast, northwest and southwest regions of China enjoy abundant transboundary resources and pose complicated issues. This paper deeply discusses major characteristics of transboundary water basins in China, including that the distribution of those basins in China is complicated; most of those basins are poor and backward; the basic studies and works on those are much weaker and exploitation is difficult. Then, focused problems on transboundary waters in China are analyzed that in international river basins, data and information are confused; problems on border and territory are unresolved; related studies in China is lagged behind. Finally, according to the present situation of transboundary water in China, a few of proper measures are proposed to address above issues in hope of promoting regional cooperation and sustainable development for transboundary water based on the principle of equitable and reasonable utilization and the obligation against causing harm.