While the management and development of water resources requires continuous establishment and improvement of the property system of water resource assets, a premise of such establishment and improvement requires a comprehensive understanding of water rights. What kind of right is water right? What is the role of a water right system? How does it relate to the most rigorous water resource management system? Questions like these are all in urgent need for definite answers. Based on practice and

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... plorations of several countries during recent years and through analysis of the connotation, orientation, and main patterns, this paper investigates the details of controversial questions, thus advancing research on several theoretical questions regarding the path of the water right reform in future China.