China News Service, Beijing, July 21 (Liu Liang) In recent years, Chinese officials have clearly stated that efforts should be made to promote the pilot work of the national park system: by 2020, the pilot project for establishing a national park system will be basically completed; by 2025, the preliminary completion will be completed. A system of nature reserves with national parks as the main body; by 2035, a system of nature reserves with Chinese characteristics will be fully established.
Data map: Shennongjia virgin forest. Photo by Xiao Fangmin
2020 has entered the second half of the year, how is the progress of the pilot work? The State Forestry and Grassland Administration of China held a regular press conference in Beijing on the 21st. At the meeting, relevant persons notified the progress of the Qianjiangyuan and Shennongjia National Park system pilots.
Qianjiangyuan National Park is located in Kaihua County, Zhejiang Province, with a total area of 252 square kilometers. This is the birthplace of the Qiantang River. It has preserved a large area of low-altitude native evergreen broad-leaved forest zonal vegetation that is rare in the world, and the authenticity and integrity of the ecosystem is still maintained. This is the core of the Qianjiangyuan National Park. Where the value lies.
"Don't look at our small area, but we face many tasks at all." Wang Changlin, deputy director of the Qianjiangyuan National Park Administration, pointed out that Qianjiangyuan National Park is located in the economically developed and densely populated area of the Yangtze River Delta, in Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi. The marginal areas of the three provinces are also collective forest areas in the south. How to solve the relationship between protection and development, promote cross-regional cooperative protection, and realize the unified management of collective natural resource assets is a major issue facing us.
Wang Changlin emphasized that in recent years, Qianjiangyuan National Park has focused on promoting the implementation of various tasks in the national park system pilot. Through the implementation of severely cracking down on the destruction of natural resources, the establishment of a long-term natural resource protection mechanism; the establishment of original projects that do not meet the requirements of ecological management and control Gradually withdraw from the mechanism; gradually eliminate unnatural substances and behaviors. At present, Qianjiangyuan National Park has basically completed the goals and tasks of the national park system pilot.
Shennongjia National Park in Hubei Province is one of the ten national park system pilot projects in the country, with a total area of 1,170 square kilometers.
Liu Jianxiong, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Shennongjia Forest District in Hubei, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Shennongjia National Park Administration, emphasized that the objects protected by the Shennongjia National Park have extremely high research value and are rare and representative in the international and domestic areas, protecting the genetics of biological species. Diversity and the integrity of ecosystems, studying the fragility of natural succession. Scientific protection, scientific research, and scientific utilization must be implemented.
In recent years, the Shennongjia National Park pilot project has also made positive progress. For example, promulgated the provincial "Shennongjia National Park Protection Regulations" and implemented "One Park, One Law" management; formulated the "Shennongjia National Park Industry Access Positive and Negative List" and formed a comprehensive law enforcement team for natural ecological resources; and 29 domestic colleges and universities, Twelve scientific research institutions carried out cooperative research on multi-field topics, jointly established the "Chinese Academy of Forestry, Shennongjia National Park Research Institute", completed the background investigation of rare and endangered plant resources, and discovered 5 new plant species; explored the community building and sharing mechanism, using national Park signs make community and farmer house numbers, integrate park culture into communities and families, and enhance public awareness of protection.
In addition, Shennongjia National Park also carries out international cooperation, such as the establishment of the Shennongjia National Park Golden Monkey Conservation Foundation, and the establishment of sister parks with 4 foreign geoparks and 18 domestic geoparks, including the Provence Highland Global Geopark in France.
“National parks are the essence of many types of nature reserves, and they are the country’s most precious natural treasures.” Zhu Chunquan, chief representative of the World Conservation Union in China, said in an interview with the media that the establishment of national parks is not only important for protecting natural biodiversity and its The ecosystem structure and ecological process on which it relies are of great significance to promote environmental education and recreation, and it is also conducive to providing "universal well-being" for present and future generations. (Finish)