The China Consulting Association (CCA) hosted a Consulting Forum themed "Break through the self and look to the future" as well as Award Ceremony in Shanghai on April 27, 2021. NHRI team of the whole-process quality inspection for the Water Diversion Project from the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River (Anhui Section) won the 2020 CCA Consulting Innovation Award.

The Water Diversion Project from the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River is one of the 172 major water projects demanded by the State Council to accelerate its construction. It is called the "South-to-North Water Transfer" project and the No.1 water project in Anhui Province. In order to deepen the supply-side structural reform of consulting service in engineering field and to solve the contradiction between the growing demand for comprehensive, cross-stage and integrated consulting services from construction units and the single-item service supply mode caused by current system, Anhui Provincial Yangtze-to-Huaihe Water Diversion Group Co., Ltd. has innovated the organization and implementation of consulting services, guided by the needs of engineering construction, and introduced high-level water engineering quality consulting agencies at home and abroad to carry out the whole-process quality consulting in the water diversion project from the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River (Anhui Section), mainly including the quality inspection of whole-process construction to find out engineering problems in time and effectively improve the quality of the project.

After winning the bid of the consulting project, NHRI immediately established a whole-process inspection and quality inspection team for the water diversion project. Under the guidance of NHRI leadership and experts and MWR Engineering Quality Inspection Center, the team issued 223 test reports of raw materials and intermediate products and 66 in-situ test reports in total, urging construction units to continuously improve the construction technology and the project quality. Focusing on water supply target, the team carried out 27 quality inspections by 189 invited experts, raised 213 project quality problems, and implemented the rectification of the problems one by one, which guaranteed the Bozhou urban water supply project passed the underwater engineering acceptance organized by MWR with high quality, provided technical support for the emergency urban water supply in Bozhou, and won the owner’s recognition.

CCA Consulting Innovation Award is a national award in the field of science and technology consulting, established in accordance with the relevant provisions of Administrative Measures for Science and Technology Awards Established by Social Forces (Decree No. 10 of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), China) and approved by MoST. It is selected once every two years.