In Ningxia in August, the sky is high and the clouds are full of vitality.
Looking around, at the foot of Liupan Mountain, a new picture of rural revitalization with strong industries, beautiful villages, and rich farmers is unfolding on the fields of hope; Ningdong Base, the "silly big black rough" that used to emit black smoke and discharge odorous water. The industry has transformed into a green, low-carbon and efficient "My Fair Lady"; on the banks of the Yellow River, the "Bald Head Mountain" that used to be everywhere has become a fruitful "Flower and Fruit Mountain", reshaping the beautiful scenery...
In the past 10 years, Ningxia, which is located in the inland west of the country, is not close to the border or the sea, and has continuously expanded and developed new space, creating remarkable achievements.
The more than 7.2 million sons and daughters of all ethnic groups in Ningxia are concentrating on the long march in the new era, striving to write a magnificent chapter of building a beautiful new Ningxia of socialist modernization in an all-round way.
Hard work and hard work over the Liupan Mountain on the road to poverty alleviation
In the Liupanshan area in August, the mountains are green and the vegetation is lush.
In the past, the mountains were bald, the water was muddy, and the sky was yellow. In the past, sandstorms occurred frequently here in spring, and people could not keep their eyes open. The local people were forced to rely on the sky to eat on the barren and barren land. On November 16, 2020, Xihaigu (also known as Guyuan City, under the jurisdiction of one district and four counties such as Xiji County), which belongs to one of the 14 concentrated contiguous destitute areas in the Liupanshan area, completely got rid of the absolute Poverty, writing a "Ningxia sample" for China's poverty alleviation.
How does the change happen?
To achieve the great goal of "building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way", the most crucial thing is to win the battle against poverty.
And hard work is the magic weapon to change the face of poverty as soon as possible.
Qin Zhenbang once served as the first secretary of the village in Hanjiang Village, Xiji County, which has the largest poverty area, the largest number of poor people and the deepest poverty level in Ningxia.
He clearly remembered the first time he came to the village in February 2017: on both sides of the winding dirt road, dilapidated adobe houses abounded; in the village office, a "lame" desk was supported by bricks.
In order to change the appearance of the village, Qin Zhenbang ate and lived with the villagers, keeping the village sentiments and opinions in his heart.
After more than two years of hard work, the cement-hardened road passes through the village, every household has moved into a bright and spacious new house, and left-behind women can work and earn money at their doorstep. The villagers in Hanjiang Village, Xiji County, have a per capita net income of 9,870 yuan in 2019. , an increase of 7070 yuan over 2016.
Looking at the earth-shaking changes in the village, Qin Zhenbang said with emotion: "You can only see hope through hard work. This is the result of the joint efforts of the cadres and the masses."
On the road to a well-off society, one cannot be missing.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Ningxia has made great efforts to fight against poverty and continued to fight against poverty. All 9 impoverished counties and districts have been lifted out of poverty, 1,100 impoverished villages have been lifted out of poverty, and more than 800,000 impoverished people have been lifted out of poverty.
After the decisive battle against poverty alleviation, the hard-working and brave Xihaigu people took solid steps on the journey of rural revitalization.
In the once poorest places, production and life have also turned a new page.
At the foot of Liupan Mountain, the buckwheat flowers are in full bloom in the terraced fields of the northern plateau, the branches of red plums and apricots are hanging on the branches in Pengyang, and the Yejia Village of Jingheyuan Town is full of tourists... The "One Tree, One Seedling, One Flower" implemented by Guyuan City, the main battlefield for poverty alleviation in Ningxia ", a grass" forest and grass industry demonstration project, has now steadily moved from experimental demonstration to comprehensive promotion.
In the past two years, the local area has classified and distributed the main varieties of the "Four Ones" forest and grass industry to the tourist loops, scenic spots, and cultivated and developed rural tours and sightseeing tours. In 2021, Guyuan City will receive more than 7.08 million domestic tourists and realize social income of 28.67 100 million yuan, "appreciating the intoxicating sea of flowers in spring, enjoying the coolness and refreshingness in summer, watching the layers of forest in autumn, and enjoying the ink painting scroll in winter" has become a beautiful business card of Guyuan.
In almost every village in Xihaigu, there are poverty alleviation workshops cooperating with Minning and Ningxia, producing local native products, such as bitter herbs, bracken root vegetables, dandelion, ground pepper tea, miscellaneous grains, potatoes, handmade vermicelli, etc., which are processed and packaged in the poverty alleviation workshops. , direct distribution to all parts of the South.
Fujian's counterpart assistance to Ningxia is a typical example of the eastern and western poverty alleviation cooperation and counterpart assistance practice. One of the important experiences is that from the main leaders of the province to the ordinary participants of poverty alleviation and the main body of poverty alleviation, they all work together and work hard.
Liupan Mountain is high and the Minjiang River is long.
Industrial cooperation, labor cooperation, talent support, financial support... For more than 20 years, the cooperation between Minning and Ningxia has yielded fruitful results.
Fujian has successively sent 11 batches of 183 cadres to Ningxia for temporary assistance, and Ningxia has sent 20 batches of more than 380 cadres to Fujian for temporary training; Fujian has helped Ningxia train tens of thousands of teachers and dispatched more than 2,000 professional and technical personnel in education, medical care, and science and technology.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period alone, Fujian has invested a total of 1.632 billion yuan in aid to Ningxia, implemented 1,128 aid projects, and helped 411,700 registered poor people in Ningxia get out of poverty stably.
"Shan Hai Qing" is over.
In the "14th Five-Year Plan" East-West Cooperation Framework Agreement, the two provinces and autonomous regions of Fujian and Ning clearly specified 10 key tasks in terms of industrial cooperation, resource complementarity and consumption cooperation.
Today, Minning cooperation is radiating inexhaustible power, condensing new wisdom and strength, and playing a happy movement under Liupan Mountain.
Pursue your dreams and move forward with a blueprint drawn to the end
Entering Ningdong Energy and Chemical Base ("Ningdong Base" for short), giant installations stand tall, and milky white pipes coiled in the air are all over the factory area. Every technological innovation conveys a strong modern atmosphere.
Ningxia is a typical coal-rich province, where coal accounts for more than 90% of energy.
Over the years, "relying on coal to eat coal", digging coal and selling coal, formed a traditional way of extensive development.
However, with overcapacity and declining profits, the coal industry, which was once called "Xiangzazi" by locals, has become a "hot potato".
At the beginning of this century, a coal sea with proven reserves of 33.1 billion tons was discovered in the Gobi in eastern Ningxia.
How to effectively develop this sea of coal?
How to build your own industrial engine?
In 2003, Ningxia made a decision to build the Ningdong base with the strength of the whole region, and established it as the No. 1 project in the autonomous region.
In 2006, Zhang Zhimin, who is currently the workshop director of Ningxia Coal Industry Co., Ltd.'s Olefin Branch 1, had just graduated from college. When he came to Ningdong, he saw that there was only one solitary factory in the vast Gobi, and the workers lived in simple prefab house.
"I was in a hurry at the time. The coal-to-olefins plant was delivered, but it was found that it could not ignite at all and could not operate at all." Zhang Zhimin had a dark complexion and fluffy hair, but two drawing pens were neatly hung on his work clothes.
"I dare not do it, and I can't do it. In the most difficult period, frequent experiments consumed a lot of raw materials. Hundreds of workers were staring at the furnace and debugging this equipment without interruption." Olefin No. 1 Gasification Company Tian Yanjun, the person in charge of the furnace, still remembers the scene at that time.
Finally, on the winter night of minus ten degrees in 2010, when coal passed through a 1300-degree gasifier, the first production was realized.
In the following 8 years, various factories in the Ningdong base have been erected, and 8 large-scale coal chemical projects have been built on the Gobi desert.
However, with the boom of coal chemical industry across the country, the investment of pile-up has caused the price of coal-to-olefins to drop again and again.
"The traditional coal industry is unsustainable. This is a signal sent by the market in a silent way. Only by taking the road of innovation and 'eating and squeezing coal' can the advantages of the modern coal chemical industry be demonstrated." Li Li, Director of the Industry Division of the Development and Reform Commission of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Said.
How to deal with "polytetrahydrofuran", the tailings of coal-to-olefin and coal-to-oil enterprises, is an important problem faced by the Ningdong base.
In order to solve this problem, Ningdong Base took advantage of the opportunity of industrial transfer in eastern my country to successfully introduce leading enterprises of new chemical fiber materials represented by Ningxia Ningdongtaihe New Materials Co., Ltd.
"Our products are in short supply!" Walking into the company's exhibition room, Li Haisheng, director of the product department, was introducing to the visitors.
Into the eye, all kinds of aramid and spandex products are dizzying.
The spandex thread feels as soft as cotton, but when you pull it, you find it extremely tough.
"Daily underwear, and even high-end handbags, can be made of spandex."
Today, the total industrial output value of Ningdong Base exceeds 130 billion yuan, and the added value of the coal chemical industry accounts for 48% of the total industrial economy. It has become the only chemical park in Northwest China with an output value of more than 100 billion yuan, and it is also exploring the future development of efficient utilization of coal.
Keeping a vein of green mountains paints a beautiful new Ningxia background
In the hot summer, citizens walk through the Helan Mountain Sports Park and listen to the gurgling water, which is very pleasant.
This 500-acre park is located in Zhihuiyuanshi Winery in Ningxia. The winery was formerly a sand quarry. In 2008, it responded to the government's call to start tree planting and ecological restoration.
"I heard that this is a park transformed from an abandoned mine. I didn't expect it to be so beautiful. It takes about half an hour to drive from my house to here. As long as the weather is good, I will bring my children here to get close to nature." Hu Yunfeng, a Yinchuan citizen who often comes to Helan Mountain Sports Park He is full of praise for the scenery here, "Well, next to the park are green vineyards, and when you look up, you can see the peaks of Helan Mountain."
The scene in front of us is only a microcosm of the effect of environmental remediation and restoration of Helan Mountain in Ningxia.
Helan Mountain is the "Father Mountain" of Ningxia.
For thousands of years, Helan Mountain has been lying between the plains and deserts, blessing the richness and beauty of "the south of the Yangtze River", shouldering the important task of maintaining the ecological security of the northwest and even the whole country, and once supported "half of the country" of Ningxia's economic development.
However, 10 years of disorderly mining has severely damaged the ecosystem here.
In May 2017, Ningxia launched the "Helan Mountain Ecological Defense War" with the firm determination of "a strong man breaks his wrist" and the tenacious will to fight chaos with an iron fist. All coal, sand and gravel industrial and mining enterprises within the scope of the Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve were shut down and withdrawn. Carry out environmental improvement and ecological restoration, and stop the examination and approval of mineral resource mining and construction projects in the reserve.
In 2019, Ningxia comprehensively launched the comprehensive management of 45 points of serious damage to ecological functions and quality in key areas outside the protected area.
11 coal mines were closed and withdrawn, 20 leftover pits and unmaintained slag platforms were renovated, 384 industrial and mining facilities were demolished, 2 scattered, disorderly and dirty coal processing areas were renovated in a centralized manner, 561 non-compliant enterprises were shut down according to law, and rectification was improved. 126.
Governing mountains is only to keep a vein of green mountains.
In the past five years, Ningxia has successively invested nearly 15 billion yuan in various types of funds such as ecological protection and restoration of Helan Mountain, covering an area of 405,000 mu.
By the end of 2021, the forest coverage rate of Helan Mountain will increase by 0.2%, and the vegetation coverage will increase by 5%; the snow leopard that has disappeared for many years will reappear, and the growth range of wild plants such as Sihemu under national key protection will continue to expand... June 2021, The ecological protection and restoration of Helan Mountain is listed as one of the 10 typical cases of ecological protection and restoration with Chinese characteristics recommended by the World Conservation Union and released to the world.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Ningxia listed the ecological protection and restoration of Helan Mountain as one of the ten major projects, and made breakthroughs in the comprehensive improvement of the ecological environment of Helan Mountain as a key point.
Today, with the gradual "recovery" of Helan Mountain, the ecological vision of "green water and lush mountains" is becoming a beauty of life within reach.
"People live up to the green hills, and the green hills will certainly live up to the people."
Looking back on the struggle of the past 10 years, Ningxia insists on leading new development and achieving new leaps with new development concepts, taking development as the biggest task, and striving to solve the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development, which has not only completely eliminated absolute poverty in the Xihaigu area. The "hat" of modern coal chemical industry, new materials, etc. has a place in the country, and it has also reshaped the beautiful mountains, rivers and scenery that can "give the mind a holiday".
Today, the "old look" has been replaced by a "new look". In the future, Ningxia will definitely get better and better.