Xiamen has always followed the concept of "mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand are a community of life" In the 1980s, the forests around Junying Village were cleared, and ecological damage led to serious soil erosion. In 2002, Xi Jinping, then governor of Fujian Province, visited Xiamen for research.
He creatively proposed the strategy of “enhancing the main island and cross-island development”, requiring “combination of highlighting urban characteristics and protecting the bay ecology”