China News Service, Guangzhou, June 22 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The Information Office of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government held a press conference on the "Opinions of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government on Comprehensively Promoting the High-level Protection and Efficient Utilization of Natural Resources" on the 22nd. Guangdong Chen Junguang, director of the Provincial Forestry Bureau, said that Guangdong will promote the protection and restoration of natural ecology around three aspects: system construction, overall protection and system restoration.
At the press conference, Chen Junguang said that as the main force in the construction of ecological civilization, in recent years, the natural resource system of Guangdong Province has firmly implemented the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", fully implemented the forest chief system, and coordinated the mountains, land, ocean, and ocean. In rural cities, major progress has been made in the overall management of landscapes, forests, fields, lakes, grasses and sands. The Pearl River Delta National Forest City Cluster has been basically built. Rare and endangered animals and plants such as white dolphins and Danxia phoenix trees are fully protected.
The "General Camphor" tree in Zhoutian Village, Huiyang District, Huizhou City is about 610 years old. Photo courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau
"Great changes have taken place in the quality of the ecological environment in Guangdong Province. Green has increasingly become the distinctive background of Guangdong's development. The sky in Guangdong is bluer, the mountains are greener, the water is clearer, and the environment is more beautiful." Chen Junguang said.
Chen Junguang said that Guangdong will speed up the construction of the province's territorial space ecological protection and restoration system.
Among them, speed up the preparation of the province's national land space ecological protection and restoration plan, the province's special plan for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems, the province's forest land protection and utilization plan, the establishment of a national forest city in the whole region, and the overall construction of the province's overall pattern of ecological protection and restoration; actively promote Innovate the system and mechanism for the transformation of the "two mountains", explore the establishment of a value realization mechanism for ecological products in the field of natural resources, and focus on piloting incentive mechanisms in mangrove construction, mine ecological restoration, rocky desertification control, forestry carbon sinks, etc., and extensively mobilize the whole society. Participate in the cause of ecological protection and restoration.
As for strengthening the overall protection of natural ecological space, Chen Junguang said that Guangdong will delineate and strictly abide by the ecological protection red line. At present, according to the national requirements, the province has trialed an ecological protection red line of 76.12 million mu, accounting for about 1/1 of the province's total land and sea area. 5. Next, strict management will be carried out to effectively protect this part of the country with special and important ecological functions; the construction of a natural reserve system with national parks as the main body will be accelerated. 10% of the province's total land and sea area, the next main task is to speed up the creation of Nanling National Park and further promote the integration and optimization of nature reserves.
Photo courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau for people to carry out voluntary tree planting activities
At the same time, Guangdong will build the South China National Botanical Garden with high standards, focusing on the ex situ conservation of plants in South China, and promote the construction of a national botanical garden system with Chinese characteristics, world-class, and harmony of all things; implement the biodiversity protection system project and continue to improve the rocky desertification area. Comprehensive coverage of forest and grass vegetation, improve the protection system of wild animals and plants, promote the construction of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration's pangolin protection research center and the rare and endangered plant conservation "one center and three bases" project, and strengthen the prevention of forest fires and invasive alien species.
Chen Junguang said that Guangdong will promote major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems.
Among them, promote the protection and restoration of mangroves.
Guangdong is the province with the largest mangrove forest area in China, accounting for about 40% of the country. This year, the establishment of a 10,000-mu mangrove demonstration area will be launched to build an overall spatial pattern of mangrove forests in the province. , Deepen the implementation of the forest chief system, and implement the ancient and famous tree resource protection project.
In addition, Guangdong will accelerate the implementation of major restoration projects at the central and provincial levels. This year, it will mainly promote the implementation of the integrated protection and restoration project of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand in the middle and upper reaches of the Hanjiang River in Nanling Mountains, and complete the restoration of 3,000 mu of quarry and stony deserts. 30,000 acres of chemical treatment will be carried out, and the Zhanjiang Marine Ecological Protection and Restoration Project will be fully launched to further strengthen the ecological security barrier.
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