China News Service, Daxinganling, Inner Mongolia, August 15th. Title:
(Well-off China) New economy settles in the old forest area in Daxinganling, Mongolia
China News Agency reporter Zhang Wei
After the beginning of autumn, the Greater Khingan Mountains in Inner Mongolia entered the autumn harvesting season. This year, the rain is abundant and the forest area has a bumper harvest. The mountain trails can always meet people who come and go up the mountain to pick the wild.
The Greater Xing’an Mountains forest area in Inner Mongolia is the largest state-owned forest area in China. It has the largest cold-temperate bright coniferous forest area in China. The forest resource area is 8,370,200 hectares, and the total area of ecological function areas is 106,700 square kilometers. The forest area and stock volume respectively account for the key points in China. Nearly 1/3 of the state-owned forest area.
In 1952, the Greater Xing'an Mountains in Inner Mongolia was developed and constructed to shoulder the mission of economic construction of the new China; after the implementation of the "Natural Protection Project", the Greater Xing'an Mountains in Inner Mongolia was completely banned in 2015... Changes have also witnessed the new look of old forest areas.
Tourism circulation green "new blood"
Li Yan, a former logging worker and now Lin Jiale boss, has been busy traveling between the mountains and his home in the past few days.
On the 15th, he told reporters: "This is different from the past. The wild mushrooms, thick plums, blueberries, pine nuts we picked... can be sold through the online platform, and some can be stored for tourists to taste. Therefore, everyone is very busy this season. ."
"Deep mountains and old forests" incarnate "a paradise", which is the result of the transformation since the complete logging ban in the Greater Xing'an Mountains, Inner Mongolia.
The "Ice and Snow Kingdom" in winter, the "Wizard of Oz" in summer, the "Palette" in spring and autumn... When the forestry economy shifts to the underforest economy, when the "tree-cutting" person becomes the "tree-watching" person, this place becomes A paradise on earth that Chinese and foreign tourists yearn for.
With an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan (RMB, the same below), he has become a well-known local "rich man"... Nowadays, forestry workers like Li Yan who have transformed into tourism are everywhere in the forest area.
At present, more than one hundred tourism projects have been incorporated into the local "Tourism Development Plan", and the Greater Xing'an Mountains in Inner Mongolia is striving to build China's landmark forest eco-tourism and health care destination.
New economy brings high-end "value control"
"Green Reservoir", "Green Carbon Bank", "Environmental Purification Oxygen Bar", "Biodiversity Gene Bank"... Today, the Greater Khingan Mountains in Inner Mongolia has become an ecological bank with assets of 100 billion yuan.
In late July, the most complete basic information about Daxinganling vascular plants, "Daxinganling Flora" was officially published.
Ma Jinshuang, the chief scientist of the Beijing Botanical Garden, said: "It gives the plants in China's largest state-owned forest area a'hukou', which is of great significance for scientific protection and rational use of plant resources in the Greater Xing'an Mountains, as well as the establishment of a sound ecological compensation mechanism."
To achieve carbon peaks by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060... The new goal has brought new opportunities to the "green carbon pool".
In April 2021, the Daxinganling Forestry Carbon Sink in Inner Mongolia was listed for the first bid and sold at a total price of 2.99 million yuan, making it the largest international forestry carbon sink transaction in North China so far.
Up to now, Daxinganling, Inner Mongolia has implemented 7 carbon sink transactions, with a total transaction volume of 7.25 million yuan.
At present, the total forest carbon storage in the Greater Xing'an Mountains forest area in Inner Mongolia has reached 1.72 billion tons. 9 international and domestic standard forestry carbon sink projects have been developed and reserved, and 8 carbon sink projects are under development. The total emission reduction of the project is expected to reach 70 million tons of carbon dioxide. equivalent.
Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group officially stated that the next step, Inner Mongolia Daxinganling will make every effort to build China's largest carbon sink storage base.
Technology settled in the smart "new forest area"
Yan Shiwen is the second observer of Motianling. Although the "New Forest Area" has installed a forest fire prevention video surveillance system, he still insists on running the mountain after retiring, not to pick autumn, but to travel throughout the Chuoyuan forest area. There are 9 manned watchtowers inside, and all watchtower locations are marked on their forest map to make more adequate preparations for the fall fire protection.
In recent years, the Greater Xing'an Mountains forest area in Inner Mongolia has adopted intelligent means to monitor forest resources in an all-round way, further enhance the technological content, and realize the transformation from traditional forest areas to smart forest areas.
Today's new forest area is no longer "isolated".
This year, 121 4G base stations will be built soon, and the public network coverage in forest areas will increase from 10% to 50%, and it will reach 70% in key areas.
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