China News Service, Taiyuan, January 30 (Gao Ruifeng) By 2025, the forest coverage rate of the Qihe River Basin will reach more than 25%, and a batch of water-saving management demonstration projects will be completed... Shanxi is the ecological protection and restoration of the Qihe River Basin, including the Fenhe River Set goals while encouraging social capital to participate in construction and operation.

  Shanxi announced the "Decision of the People's Government of Shanxi Province on Accelerating the Implementation of the Ecological Protection and Restoration of the Qihe River Basin" (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision") to accelerate the promotion of the ecological protection and restoration of the Qihe River Basin.

The seven river basins refer to the water and land areas within the catchment area of ​​the seven rivers and their tributaries such as Fen River, Sanggan River, Hutuo River, Zhang River, Qin River, Sushui River, Daqing River (Tang River, Sha River).

  The "Decision" will be implemented on March 1, 2021.

The "Decision" clarified that the construction of vegetation buffer belts and isolation protection forest belts on both sides of the Seven Rivers, and orderly promote the return of forests, grasses, wetlands, and beaches in accordance with the law; delineate the source protection areas of the Seven Rivers in accordance with the law, build water conservation forests, and improve forests Coverage rate, strengthen vegetation construction.

By 2025, the forest coverage of the Qihe River Basin will reach over 25%.

  Strengthen the use of middle water resources within the Qihe River Basin, implement measures such as agricultural water-saving and efficiency-saving, industrial water-saving and emission reduction, and urban water-saving and loss reduction. By 2025, the irrigation water utilization coefficient will be increased to 0.58, and the scale of cities with districts The above-mentioned industrial water repetition rate reached 91%, the leakage rate of the public water supply pipe network was controlled within 10%, and a batch of water-saving management demonstration projects were built.

  At the same time, promote the construction of the water network project in the Qihe River Basin, and strengthen the allocation and dispatch management of water resources. By 2025, the ecological water volume of the main stream of the Qihe River shall not be less than 10% of the multi-year average water volume during the non-flood period, and the water quality shall not be less than 20% during the flood period; the construction of artificial wetland water quality will improve Project to improve the efficiency of the treatment of the "last mile" before the drainage of the Qihe River Basin enters the river.

  Take measures such as spring group remediation, dredging and protection, and ecological water replenishment to restore the ecological environment of Longzi Temple, Niangziguan, Xin'an and other spring areas, and promote the reflow of large karst springs such as Jinci, Lancun and Gudui; Effective measures such as lakes will strengthen the ecological protection and restoration of lakes in the Qihe Basin.

By 2025, the ecological system of Jinyang Lake, Zhangze Lake, Yunzhu Lake, Salt Lake and Wuxing Lake will be improved.

  In addition, the "Decision" requires that people's governments at or above the county level should build a diversified investment mechanism to encourage and guide social capital to participate in the construction and operation of the ecological protection and restoration projects in the Qihe River Basin.

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