(Well-off China) From "appearance" to "value": the "Versailles" economy in China's largest state-owned forest area
Chinanews.com, Daxinganling, Inner Mongolia, April 10th. Title: From "appearance" to "value": the "Versailles" economy in China's largest state-owned forest area
China News Service reporter Zhang Wei
"In fact, our forest area is nothing, except for the scenery all year round, that is,'air can sell money'." On the 9th, Wu Shaoqing, a "post-90s" girl who grew up in the Greater Xing'an Mountains forest area in Inner Mongolia, introduced to reporters "Versailles". Own hometown.
The picture shows the autumn in the Greater Khingan Mountains, Inner Mongolia.
Photo courtesy of Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group
A few days ago, 260,000 tons of carbon sink (VCS) emission reductions from the Greater Xing’an Mountains in Inner Mongolia were listed for bidding at the Property Rights Exchange Center of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and sold at a total price of 2.99 million yuan (RMB, the same below), becoming the largest deal in North China. Forestry carbon sink trading.
This undoubtedly made this forest area proud again.
The total area of the ecological function zone is 106,700 square kilometers, the "Xanadu" rich in beautiful scenery, the negative oxygen ions exceed the standard, and the total forest carbon storage is about 1.72 billion tons... From "cutting trees" to "seeing trees" and "looking at" Value", in the wave of rapid economic and social development, the largest state-owned forest area stationed in northern China has never been out of date for nearly 70 years.
In 1952, the Greater Khingan Mountains in Inner Mongolia was developed and constructed, and shouldered the mission of economic construction in New China. After the implementation of the "Natural Protection Project", the Greater Khingan Mountains in Inner Mongolia was completely banned in 2015. The economic development of the forest area changed from "cutting trees" to "seeing trees". Workers changed from builders to guardians.
While guarding the green waters and green mountains, they are engaged in tourism prosperously.
Cheng Shanzhong is a forestry worker affiliated with Jinhe Forestry Bureau Co., Ltd., and his new identity is the boss of Lin Jiale who has successfully transformed into a tourist industry.
"To come to our place is to'see'. You can see rhododendrons in spring, everything in summer, forests in autumn, and ice and snow in winter." Cheng Shanzhong said, "A lot of foreign tourists have come in these years. It takes less income from tourism for a year. Hundreds of thousands."
The picture shows the summer in the Greater Khingan Mountains, Inner Mongolia.
Photo courtesy of Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group
In the minds of forest people, another meaning of "seeing the trees" is to look after and guard the forest.
Chen Baishan, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group, once introduced that after the implementation of the "Natural Forest Protection Project", the forest area and accumulation of the Greater Xing'an Mountains in Inner Mongolia have achieved double growth, and the more and more forest resources are harvested, the better the harvest.
In 2020, the Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group will conduct the service function value assessment of the forest and wetland ecosystem in the Greater Xing'an Mountains of Inner Mongolia for the first time, with a total value of 616 billion yuan per year, of which the total value of the "green carbon pool" is 107.175 billion yuan per year.
The picture shows the winter in the Greater Khingan Mountains, Inner Mongolia.
Photo courtesy of Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group
In 2021, China puts forward new goals for carbon peak and carbon neutrality: achieve carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.
As the largest contiguous state-owned forest area in China, the Greater Xing'an Mountains in Inner Mongolia has already gained momentum.
Niu Guangzhong, member of the party committee and deputy general manager of Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group, introduced that in 2014, Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group began a pilot forestry carbon sink project, developed 9 international and domestic standard forestry carbon sink projects and implemented 6 carbon sink trading projects.
Up to now, the Greater Xing'an Mountains forest area in Inner Mongolia has achieved a total of 4.9 million yuan in forestry carbon sink sales.
He Youjun, director and researcher of the Forestry Strategy and Planning Research Office of the Institute of Forestry Science and Technology Information of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, said that based on the average absorption and fixed carbon dioxide of about 1.83 tons of carbon dioxide per cubic meter of forest growth, the total carbon storage of forests in the Greater Xing'an Mountains of Inner Mongolia is about 1.72 billion tons. , Is an important carbon sink area in China.
The picture shows the spring in the Greater Khingan Mountains, Inner Mongolia.
Photo courtesy of Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group
A few days ago, the Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group announced the results of the Inner Mongolia Daxinganling Carbon Sink Resource Survey: the forest area can develop a carbon sink area of 2.5932 million hectares, and the theoretical emission reduction in 51 years is 357 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
In He Youjun's view, the annual net growth of forests in the Greater Khingan Mountains of Inner Mongolia is more than 20 million cubic meters, and the growth potential of forest accumulation and carbon storage is huge.
By 2030, the total amount of carbon in forest areas will exceed the conservatively measured 160 million tons.
Niu Guangzhong said that in the next step, the Greater Xing'an Mountains, Inner Mongolia, will form a database-based carbon sink resource management system, increase investment in ecological protection, improve forest carbon sequestration and storage capacity, build China's largest forest carbon sink reserve base, and transform ecological value into economy Benefit, turning "face value" into "value".
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