You can meet the finless porpoise by walking along the river. You should know the story of this city
"The gorge is open to the sun, the mountains are flat and the water is wide and the city is floating."
The Wanli Yangtze River passes through the gorge of heavy mountain ranges, flows through the Three Gorges Reservoir area of Gaoxiaping Lake, and travels to the starting point of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River to Yichang City, Hubei Province.
The strong man broke his wrist and declared war on "Chemical Encirclement of the River"!
At 9 o'clock in the morning, with the sound of the siren of a freighter in the river, the main urban area of Yichang City, prospering along the river, gradually regained consciousness.
Strolling along the river beach in Aijia Town, Dianjun District, Yichang City, it is difficult to find traces of the chimney-lined chemical plant in the vegetated land, but Huang Yuping, who has worked and lived here for 22 years, still remembers fresh.
Reporter: Where was your working location at that time?
Huang Yuping: This is the entire packaging workshop. I was mainly working in this area.
Reporter: It is already the place of the tree.
Huang Yuping: Yes, below is the factory building and the cinder yard.
In 1969, the Yichang Tiantian Chemical Plant was built on the Yangtze River, only 70 meters away from the Yangtze River. After 47 years of development, the annual average profit and tax of the plant was close to 30 million yuan, and the total value of more than 300 sets of production equipment was nearly 200 million yuan.
In 2016, for the protection of the Yangtze River and ecological concessions, Yichang City chose to take the initiative to shut down chemical plants, which opened the prelude to the "clearing" of chemical companies within 1 kilometer along the river.
After personally pressing the equipment shutdown button, the old employee Huang Yuping still had red eyes.
Huang Yuping: After ten o'clock in the evening, stop it gradually.
I must be very disappointed in my heart, after all our youthful blood is sprinkled in this place.
The company said that it would be shut down, and it has reached this age. If you change jobs again, it will definitely feel uncomfortable when it involves re-employment.
Like Huang Yuping, there is also Deng Shan, the party branch secretary of Liulin Village, Aijia Town. Although the chemical plant is polluted, once it shuts down, what will the more than 70 migrant workers in the village do?
Deng Shan, Secretary of the Party Branch of Liulin Village, Aijia Town: When we were young, we studied near the chemical plant. If we didn't close the windows in class, all the desks would be gray.
Worrying about its demolition is mainly a source of income for the people. If it is closed, it means they are unemployed.
The same problem is also facing Yichang City.
Relying on the advantages of phosphate mines, shipping and water sources, the chemical industry has developed rapidly on the banks of the Yangtze River in Yichang and has become the city's first leading industry of 100 billion yuan.
As of 2016, there were 134 chemical companies along the river in Yichang City.
After solving the "chemical encirclement of the river", where is the way out?
Zhou Huamao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Yichang Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology: Everyone is still very worried about affecting the development speed of the local economy and reducing jobs.
However, in accordance with the spirit and requirements of the municipal party committee and government to implement the protection of the Yangtze River, everyone has unified their thinking and always regards ecological and environmental protection and green development as the prerequisite for our high-quality development.
For a better Yangtze River and for higher quality development, people are taking action.
"Courtyard Economy" and "Fine Chemical Industry"
In fact, we are all "green"
With the closure of Tiantian Chemical Plant, the ecological advantages of Yijiang and mountains in Liulin Village, Aijia Town, and the location advantage of being close to the main urban area have gradually emerged.
Deng Shan and her fellow villagers rely on the villagers' own courtyards to develop tourism in the suburbs of the city. The establishment of elegant or simple farmyards has become a new hope for Liulin Village.
Deng Shan: Every plant and tree, brick and tile in the courtyard are all carefully crafted.
The trees are all year-round evergreen trees picked from the mountain as the green landscape of the courtyard.
Taking into account the problem of nearby employment, the courtyard economy is implemented in the form of farmhouses. This year, it is estimated that more than 40 farmhouse licenses will be issued to the common people, and they will develop in this direction.
At noon, the farmhouse in Liulin Village is full of buildings, full of seats, full of diners, most of whom are admiringly driving from Yichang city to taste.
Wang Haiyang, a villager of Liulin Village, proudly stated that although it has only been opened for 4 months, relying on the development of local farm dishes and donkey meat special catering, the daily flow can now be up to tens of thousands of yuan, and it can also bring five villagers to nearby employment.
Wang Haiyang, a villager in Liulin Village: The guests who came here said that the air and environment are good here, and they want to live here.
In fact, I have told many friends that you can come to our Liulin to invest (investment) in farmhouses or (investment) in homestays, and you can come to invest (investment).
In the past, chemical plants (exhaust gas) often floated to our side, right across from us, but now they are gone.
As of last year, the per capita income of Liulin Village in Aijia Town has increased from less than 10,000 yuan in 2015 to 14,600 yuan.
Wei Hai, Secretary of the Party Committee of Aijia Town: "In the past, few people might think about how to use their land and houses to develop their added value. There has been a big change in everyone's thinking."
Similar changes have also occurred in the chemical industry.
The determination of the strong men to break their wrists and scrape their bones to heal injuries is in return for the solution of the dilemma of "chemical besieging the river"-leading industrial enterprises have completed the transformation and upgrading from "selling low-end products per ton" to "selling high-end products per ton", Yichang City The gold content, green content, and new content of economic development are constantly increasing.
Zhou Huamao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of Yichang Economic and Information Technology Bureau: Through the conversion of new and old kinetic energy, the industry is upgraded.
The proportion of fine chemicals in the chemical industry has increased from 18.6% in 2016 to 36.2% in 2019. The chemical industry is accelerating its development towards fineness, high-end and green.
At the same time, our four major industries, namely new equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, new materials and electronic information, have maintained double-digit growth.
Come to the riverside and meet Huaer and the finless porpoise!
Huang Yuping, 47 years old this year, has embarked on a new job.
Saying goodbye to the soot and oily chemical plant, and entering Angel Yeast, who is working in the workshop in clean clothes, is engaged in equipment management and his income has also increased a lot.
Reporter: Will you come to this place if you have nothing to do?
Huang Yuping: I've been here by myself, but I still miss it. At that time, I was still doing soil restoration. Now the greening is planted, and it will become a public green space in the future.
Now, taking his wife and children to Yichang Binjiang has almost become Huang Yuping's regular schedule every weekend.
Huang Yuping: When it was beautiful, a river of spring water flowed eastward. I have seen many finless porpoises. There were dozens of finless porpoises in the middle of the river. They all jumped out of the river and then sank.
Looking at the Yangtze River now, I really love the Yangtze River anyway. If the environment is better, I will definitely love it.
In the early winter, the green grass gradually withered, but on the slope facing the Yangtze River, a large area of unknown wild flowers bloomed, pink and yellow, and colorful, as if they wanted to return this rejuvenated vitality to the endless stream. The water from the Yangtze River will be returned to the people living on the bank.
Citizen 1: It is indeed much better than before. The dust is a lot smaller. We can still see the stars at night. We feel that we are happy. The sense of security in life is stronger.
Citizen 2: I like to walk along the banks of the Yangtze River. I also saw the rare finless porpoise appearing in groups on the surface of the river. I was very relieved. It shows that the water in the river is very clean and very clean.
Wei Hai, Secretary of the Party Committee of Aijia Town: Here, you can find your own value and do what you want to do in terms of employment and entrepreneurship. At the same time, you can have a good living environment and enjoy the green mountains and green waters.
Child: Today my mother and I came to the park. I saw the green grass and the blue sky. I like it very much.
The Yangtze River rushes for thousands of miles and is covered by everything, and a vast hinterland of the Yangtze River Economic Belt was born from this.
This golden economic belt covering 11 provinces and cities spans the three major sectors of my country's east, middle and west, and its population size and total economic output occupies "half of the country".
The Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, and General Secretary Xi Jinping has always cared about it.
In the past few years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made many field trips and investigations on the restoration of the Yangtze River's ecological environment, and directed the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
In the past few days, a number of reporters from the headquarters of the central government have traveled upstream and visited various places along the Yangtze River again, feeling the vitality of high-quality development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
The Voice of China launched a special plan "Talking about the Yangtze River" to tell you new stories about the Yangtze River and explore new changes in the Yangtze River.
Launched today: "Renewing the Old Chemical Industry".