Xinhua News Agency, Hefei, June 27th.

Title : Lujiang, Anhui: The Millennium Ancient County Shows New Faces

  Xinhua News Agency reporters Dai Qun and Ma Shurui

  In 2021, the regional GDP will exceed 50 billion yuan, and a new base for new energy battery materials and biomedical industries is being formed; it is adjacent to Chaohu Lake and integrated into the provincial capital. ; The restoration and protection of wetlands around Chaohu Lake have been further promoted, in exchange for a flood of clear water flowing into Chaohu Lake... Lujiang County, Hefei City, Anhui Province, has come from a profound history, focusing on development in the new era, and a thousand-year-old county is showing a new look.

The industry "goes the right way" to strengthen the economy

  Walking into the battery workshop of Guoxuan New Energy (Lujiang) Co., Ltd. located in Lujiang High-tech Zone, the batteries that are "anxiously waiting" for new energy vehicle enterprises are being assembled and rolled off the production line. The other side of the production line is used to improve The simultaneous construction of the "constant temperature room" for production conditions will be completed by the end of July.

  "The production has not been interrupted since the Spring Festival this year, and orders have been filled throughout the year. It is expected that we will achieve full production in the second half of the year." Liu Rui, the company's administrative director, said that the company currently produces more than 300,000 new energy battery cells per day. 30% of the products are sold overseas.

  The power battery is the core part of the new energy vehicle and the "key link" in the new energy vehicle industry chain.

Since 2015, Guoxuan Hi-Tech, the leading power battery company, has successively invested and established three subsidiaries in Lujiang, including Guoxuan New Energy (Lujiang) Co., Ltd., forming one third of the company's battery production capacity.

  On June 21, the staff were busy in the battery workshop of Guoxuan New Energy (Lujiang) Co., Ltd. located in Lujiang High-tech Zone.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Junxi

  In recent years, Lujiang has integrated resources, steadily expanded the new energy battery material industry, and gradually built the largest power battery and magnetic material production base in Anhui Province.

  On June 21, Jiangsu Chaodian's annual production of 10GWH super fast charging power battery project with a total investment of 7.8 billion yuan was officially signed in Lujiang High-tech Zone. After the project is completed and put into operation, it is expected to achieve an annual output value of 15 billion yuan and an annual tax payment of about 350 million yuan. .

  In 2021, the GDP of Lujiang County will exceed 50 billion yuan, reaching 54.72 billion yuan.

With the new energy battery material industry as the engine, Lujiang also plans to achieve the goal of "double thousand and double hundred" by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", that is, the county's regional GDP is 100 billion yuan, the total industrial output value is 100 billion yuan, and the fiscal revenue is 100 billion yuan. 10 billion yuan, and cultivate an enterprise with an output value of 10 billion yuan.

The "back garden" of the provincial capital makes farmers rich

  "The village is getting cleaner and the river is getting clearer. There are a lot of tourists coming, and they have to grab parking spaces on weekends." Talking about the changes in the village in recent years, Gao Cuilan, a 72-year-old villager in Mahe Village, Tongda Town, Lujiang County, is familiar with it.

  Just around the second-story building of Gao Cuilan's house, the quaint pavilion stands on the trestle road by the river, the small train carries tourists through the vast fields, and the creative wall paintings decorate the farmhouses by the road... This once unknown farmhouse. The small village has become a famous “Internet celebrity check-in point” for rural tourism in Hefei.

  This is the water landscape of the "Xiaoman·Daomeng Space" project in Mahe Village, Tongda Town, Lujiang County.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Shurui

  "In 2019, we started the construction of beautiful villages. When planning and designing, we focused on preserving the unique style and culture of Chaohu polders and laying a solid foundation for infrastructure. With these accumulations, we have successfully introduced the 'Xiaoman·Daomeng Space' agricultural tourism The project focuses on the characteristic tourism of 'Shuiyunxu Township'," said Zhao Keyong, deputy director of the Mahe Village Committee.

  The Lujiang River, which is adjacent to Chaohu Lake in the north and the Yangtze River in the south, has rich tourism resources and unique rural features.

At present, the county has built 12 boutique tourism routes, 26 boutique homestays, and created 30 rural tourism "Internet celebrity check-in points" including "Xiaoman·Daomeng Space".

  The wonderful agricultural tourism attracts tourists, and it also makes Gao Cuilan and his wife, who are "uneasy when they are idle", have new jobs at their doorstep.

This is the appearance of Mahe Village, Tongda Town, Lujiang County (drone photo on June 21).

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Junxi

  "There are many tourists in the evening, so I go to the Shui'an restaurant to help cut and garnish vegetables, and my wife directs traffic at the entrance of the village. The wages of the two add up to more than 4,000 yuan per month!" Shore restaurant, smiling from ear to ear.

  According to statistics, the annual number of tourists in Lujiang County will increase from 4.5 million in 2016 to 8.184 million in 2021; the total tourism revenue will increase from 3.7 billion in 2016 to 6.68 billion in 2021.

Remediation around Chao Lake makes wetlands beautiful

  In the summer of Qifengzhou Wetland, there are dense green trees, pavilions of lotus leaves, and patches of reeds swaying in the wind.

  "This wetland is divided into 4 areas, and we have to conduct inspections every day. For example, now that the summer is entering and the evaporation is large, it is necessary to artificially replenish water and manage the water level in time." Tengwangge Construction Engineering Group, which is responsible for the maintenance of Qifengzhou wetland Zhang Helei, head of the wetland project department of the Hefei branch, said.

Tanned, he takes nearly 20,000 steps a day.

  Among the top ten wetlands around Chaohu Lake, Qifengzhou Wetland and Maweihe Wetland are located in the Lujiang River. At present, the restoration of animals and plants, the construction of water systems, the construction of wetland ecology and the construction of supporting facilities have been completed, and they have been transferred to daily maintenance.

  Wetland is an important ecological barrier for Chaohu Lake.

Since 2012, Lujiang County has implemented 10 projects including wetland vegetation protection, restoration and reconstruction, completed wetland restoration area of ​​12,792 mu, and invested a total of 290 million yuan.

This is the Qifengzhou Wetland in Lujiang County (drone photo taken on June 21).

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Junxi

  Shao Jian, director of the Wetland Institute of Lujiang County Forestry and Landscape Construction Service Center, told reporters that Lujiang has done "extremely meticulous" in dealing with wetland restoration, respecting the original pastoral context, not excavating, properly adjusting the water system, and making full use of the existing There are reeds, lotus ponds and ponds with wetland animals and plants.

  "We hope to form a near-natural original ecological wetland with stable ecology, beautiful landscape and diverse species, so that the wetland can enter a virtuous circle of self-repair as soon as possible." He said.

  According to statistics, since 2012, a total of 46 projects have been approved for comprehensive management of Chaohu Lake in Lujiang County, with an investment of nearly 10 billion yuan.

By the end of last year, the construction of sewage interception projects in the county's market towns was completed, and 21 sewage treatment plants were renovated and expanded; 7 national test sections and county-level drinking water sources met 100% water quality standards, Zhaohe, Baishitianhe, Macao River, Xiaonan River and The ecologically clean small watershed projects such as Jinniu River have been basically completed.

  "The oriental white stork and the white spoonbill have reappeared here. The water fern, a second-class national protected plant, has gradually grown and flourished, the biodiversity has recovered day by day, and the wetland ecology has become more beautiful day by day." Shao Jian said.