Future of China's hydropower:speeding up development and sustainable development

China's hydropower development has reached a considerably high level with strenuous efforts of several decades. The issues of the relationship between hydropower development and the sustainable developments of both the environment and the social economy have been attracting more and more attention,for which a series of relevant policies and principles has been made successively. Speeding up the development of the rich hydro-energy resources in China is decided by the need of optimization of the existing the energy structure in China, is demanded by the development of the economic society in China, and on the whole, is the inevitable option for the realization of the significant strategy of the sustainable development.