China News Service, Chengdu, May 26 (Reporter He Shaoqing and Zhang Lang) "We have been monitoring the spawning of fish every day since March this year, and the number has increased by 300% compared to before the fishing ban. I feel that all the efforts in the past few years have been worth it. "In the early morning of the 26th, the Yangtze River Sturgeon in Yibin, Sichuan, assisted Zhou Tao, the captain of the patrol team, and his teammates to drive the assault boat and came to the Yangtze River to check the fish egg collection net.

　　As an important ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, 96.6% of the water system in Sichuan belongs to the Yangtze River system, and 18,700 square kilometers of the territory belong to the Yellow River Basin.

In order to fight the battle to defend the clear water and ensure the continuous flow of clear water in the river, at the end of September 2020, all 10,257 fishing boats and 16,480 fishermen in the Yangtze River Basin in Sichuan Province returned to shore.

　　Most of the members of the Yangtze River Sturgeon Assistance Patrol Team in Yibin, Sichuan are fishermen who are proficient in water and have lived on the banks of the Yangtze River for generations.

Zhou Tao told reporters that in addition to rescuing rare fish, everyone also assisted experts from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences to conduct fish sampling and monitoring.

"In the past two years, not only more and more rare fish have been rescued, but also when we walk at night, we can see the scene of fish jumping out of the water. Our mother river is getting more and more beautiful."

The winding mountain roads and dense forests of Xuanhanba Mountain Grand Canyon in Dazhou City are lined with each other.

Photo by Zhang Lang

　　Heitutan, Ruoergai County, Aba Prefecture, which is more than 700 kilometers away from Yibin City, bid farewell to the Siberian whooper swans who came here for the winter, and welcomed the black-necked cranes from Yunnan.

It is understood that since the "13th Five-Year Plan", Sichuan has continued to increase investment in the governance of the Yellow River Basin, and has invested more than 1 billion yuan in the governance and protection of the Yellow River Basin. To expand the scope of water coastline protection.

　　Tu Sheng, an engineer from the Zoige Forest and Grass Bureau, goes to Ruoergai Upper Yellow River Water Conservation Project and other desertification control projects every week to observe.

He introduced that through the management measures of "one year blocking wind and sand fixation, two years vegetation restoration, three years seedling survival, and five years combining shrubs and grasses", the local moving sand was obviously fixed, and the phenomenon of sand shifting was gradually reduced.

The preliminary report of the sixth national desertified land monitoring in 2019 shows that the area of ​​desertified land in Ruoergai County decreased by 115,800 mu compared with the results of the fifth desertified land monitoring in 2014, showing negative growth for the first time, and the desertification control has ushered in a historic turning point.

　　In addition to guarding a river and clear water, Sichuan is also resolutely fighting the battle to defend the blue sky and pure land.

In terms of improving the quality of the atmospheric environment, Sichuan regards the improvement of the quality of the atmospheric environment in the Chengdu Plain and southern Sichuan as the province's "No. 1 project" for environmental protection, and strengthens joint prevention and control to deal with heavily polluted weather.

In 2021, the concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Sichuan will be 31.8 micrograms per cubic meter, and the excellent days rate will be as high as 89.5%.

　　"In the past five years, Sichuan has made a solid and in-depth investigation of soil pollution, implemented classified management and control of cultivated land soil in the province, and implemented access management of construction land. Continue to carry out investigation and rectification of soil pollution risk sources to prevent new soil pollution from the source. "Sichuan Wu Yi, representative of the 12th Provincial Party Congress and deputy director of the Institute of Soil and Groundwater Environment of the Sichuan Academy of Eco-Environmental Sciences, introduced that Sichuan will also carry out the construction of soil risk control areas in the upper reaches of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers to strengthen the source of soil pollution in industrial and mining enterprises. Prevention, speed up the risk control, governance and restoration of contaminated soil, so that people can eat and live with peace of mind.

Comparison of vegetation restoration and management in Zoige grassland.

Photo courtesy of Sichuan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment

　　Only by giving priority to ecology can green development be achieved.

Over the past five years, Sichuan has firmly established the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, earnestly implemented the major strategic deployment of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and wrote the green transformation answer sheet in the new era.

　　On December 31, 2021, the first compliance cycle of the national carbon emissions trading market officially ended.

The nationally certified voluntary emission reduction (CCER) of Sichuan United Environment Exchange was 17.9949 million tons, ranking fourth in the country.

The exchange’s volume in 2021 will account for more than half of the cumulative total since the market opened, more than the past four years combined.

　　Behind the fiery carbon trading is the embodiment of the green, low-carbon and cyclical development of Sichuan's economy.

In the past five years, Sichuan has not only taken the lead in completing the compilation of "three lines and one order" in the country, delineated the province's comprehensive environmental management and control units, and effectively built an environmental zoning management and control system. Optimizing environmental impact assessment management methods and standardizing administrative law enforcement behaviors will promote the healthy development of the private economy.

In addition, Sichuan has also strengthened the cooperation between the government and the bank, and provided a project financing amount of no less than 100 billion yuan to the ecological environment field within three years.

　　The relevant person in charge of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment introduced that in the future, Sichuan will also formulate and implement the "Sichuan Provincial Action Plan for Pollution Reduction and Carbon Reduction Synergy and Efficiency", and formulate comprehensive measures such as the elimination of heavily polluted weather in Sichuan, the coordinated treatment of fine particulate matter and ozone, and the treatment of diesel truck pollution. We will do a good job in the follow-up work of the second round of central ecological and environmental protection inspections, continue to promote high-quality development with high-level protection of the ecological environment, effectively build an ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, and strive to write the chapter of beautiful China in Sichuan.

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