Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 4 -
Title: 5 years, this new look north and glow
Xinhua News Agency reporter
January 2016, April 2018, November 2020;
Upstream Chongqing, midstream Wuhan, downstream Nanjing.
In the past five years, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over three symposiums in order to promote the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and explore the path of ecological priority and green development for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
In the past five years, 11 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have promoted the improvement of the ecological environment and promoted a comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. The intensity, scale, and influence have been unprecedented. The ecological environmental protection of the Yangtze River Economic Zone has undergone turning changes and economic and social development has achieved history. Sexual achievement, the mother of the Chinese nation is full of vitality.
A major strategy related to the overall development of the country
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On December 26, 2020, after three deliberations, the 24th meeting of the 13th National People's Congress Standing Committee voted to pass the Yangtze River Protection Law.
"Total protection and no development" is written into the law.
The promulgation and implementation of my country's first river basin law has established a rigid restraint mechanism for protecting the mother river.
A few days later, at 0:00 on January 1, 2021, the 10-year ban on fishing in key waters of the Yangtze River Basin was fully launched.
Plan for the overall situation and for the future generations.
All 179,693 fishermen in key waters withdrew their fishing and landed ashore, and the Yangtze River banned and protracted the fight against fishing.
After five years of development, a more profound reform has begun around the mother river of the Chinese nation.
Time goes back to 5 years ago.
Chongqing, January 5, 2016.
A symposium on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt was held.
"To promote the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, we must consider the long-term interests of the Chinese nation and take the path of ecological priority and green development", General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized.
Standing at the overall height of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, with the historical responsibility of being responsible to future generations, General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned, deployed, and personally promoted the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Since 2016, he has been to the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and held three symposiums, from "promotion" to "in-depth promotion" and then to "all-round promotion" to steer the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Wuhan, April 26, 2018.
A symposium on deepening the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt was held.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Under the new situation, to promote the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the key is to correctly grasp the overall advancement and key breakthroughs, ecological environmental protection and economic development, overall planning and long-term success, destroying old kinetic energy and cultivating new kinetic energy. The relationship between development and coordinated development"...
November 14, 2020, Nanjing.
A symposium on comprehensively promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt was held.
"Unswervingly implement the new development concept and promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt", General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the direction for the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in the new development stage.
In the past five years, we have protected and developed in development.
Battles for ecological protection have been launched one after another, and the development concept of the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River has undergone profound changes.
Chongqing Guangyang Island, the largest Jiangxin Island in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, had its real estate development stopped.
Today, ecological restoration and environmental remediation have exceeded 3 million square meters, and it has been selected as the first batch of green development demonstration zones in the Yangtze River Economic Zone.
In the Hubei section of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the smokestacks disappeared, sand mining boats and fishing boats were hard to find, and many shorelines were put on "green clothes."
In the Jiangsu section of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, near the mouth of the Zaojiang River, the former chemical plant has been demolished.
In order to solve the problem of "chemical surrounding the river", all 31 chemical production enterprises within 1 km along the river in Changzhou signed a contract to shut down.
Govern with an iron fist, leaving no dead ends; green development, sparing no effort.
"Cages for green", "cages for birds", "cages for birds"... In the first three quarters of 2020, the GDP of the 11 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River accounted for 46.6% of the country's GDP, and the proportion continued to increase.
Five years of practice has proved that ecological protection and economic development are not contradictory but dialectical unity.
The joint efforts to protect the country not only did not affect the development speed of the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River, but also greatly enhanced the supporting and leading role of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in supporting the high-quality development of the country.
A turning change in ecological protection
More than 100 years ago, industrialist Zhang Jian's vision for his hometown of Wushan in Nantong, Jiangsu Province was "gardens and scenic spots."
But for many years of extensive development, this area at the estuary of the Yangtze River was once densely covered with dock factories. "The riverside does not see the river, and the water is not hydrophilic".
As time passed, Zhang Jian's dream finally became a reality.
Since 2016, after shutting down and relocating, and ecological restoration, this place is transforming into an ecological green corridor that citizens are proud of.
From "production rust belt" to "ecological embroidery belt", in the past five years, one by one beautiful transformations have been staged along the Yangtze River.
Behind the transformation is to pay close attention to the outstanding problems of the ecological environment, and continue to tackle tough problems.
On December 16, 2020, the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt held a plenary meeting to hand over 169 outstanding ecological and environmental issues newly disclosed in 2020 to the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River.
Since 2018, relevant departments have taken the form of unannounced visits to film environmental warning films in the Yangtze River Economic Zone for three consecutive years, discovering problems and promoting rectification.
As of the end of 2020, 153 rectifications have been completed on 163 issues disclosed in 2018, and 128 rectifications have been completed on 152 issues disclosed in 2019.
The provinces and cities along the Yangtze River self-examined and rectified 4137 problems.
The Zhenjiang section of the Yangtze River, due to the unique geographical location of its dolphin protection area, has become the only protection area on the main stream of the Yangtze River that has not been opened as the main channel of the Yangtze River.
In 2018, an unannounced visit revealed that Zhenjiang City’s Yangtze River Dolphin Provincial Nature Reserve had illegally built a film and television reality park, and illegally reclaimed agricultural planting and fishery...
After the problem was disclosed, the local area set up a special work team as soon as possible, quickly demolished the film and television base, and withdrew from agricultural production and aquaculture activities... At present, the regional vegetation coverage has increased significantly, the finless porpoise is frequently found in the protected area, and more than 7,000 acres of river beach wetlands have reappeared Natural style.
Rectification of problems is the key starting point, and ecological restoration and pollution control are long-term strategies.
Sewage and garbage treatment, chemical pollution treatment, agricultural non-point source pollution treatment, ship pollution treatment, and tailing pond pollution treatment in cities and towns along the river... Based on the root cause, battles have started one after another——
The centralized sewage and garbage treatment facilities in cities and counties along the main stream of the Yangtze River have basically achieved full coverage; a total of 8,091 industrial enterprises have been relocated and transformed; the comprehensive utilization rate of livestock and poultry manure has increased to over 75%; the docks along the main stream of the Yangtze River have achieved full coverage of ship-based garbage facilities , 1,641 tailings ponds need to be treated, 1431 have been treated...
Return Jiang Yumin, and strive to promote the cleanup and remediation of the Yangtze River shoreline——
The 1,361 illegal docks along the Yangtze River’s main line were completely rectified, 158 kilometers of shoreline were evacuated, about 2.34 million square meters of various buildings were demolished, and 12.13 million square meters of Yangtze River shoreline was re-greened...
Coordinate the upstream and downstream, left and right banks, main and tributary streams, and carry out systematic protection and restoration——
Persist in the comprehensive management of landscapes, forests, fields, lakes and grasses, strengthen the protection and restoration of wetlands, and implement the endangered species rescue action plan...
In the first 11 months of 2020, the proportion of sections with good water quality in the Yangtze River Economic Zone was 86.6%, an increase of 13.3 percentage points from 2016; the proportion of water quality inferior to Grade V was 0.4%, a decrease of 2.9 percentage points from 2016.
Ma'anshan and Tongling in Anhui, Wuhan in Hubei, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Nantong, Wuxi in Jiangsu... The finless porpoise, which was almost extinct in the past, has appeared frequently in recent years.
The Yangtze finless porpoise, known as the "smiling angel", is the flagship species of the Yangtze River ecological chain.
Zhang Xibin, director of the scientific research office of Tongling Freshwater Porpoise National Nature Reserve Administration, said that the increase in the number of finless porpoises reflects the obvious improvement of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River.
"With the full implementation of the Yangtze River ban on fishing, the fish resources that the finless porpoise can prey are more abundant."
A profound change in system and mechanism
In Ciba Village at the junction of Yongchuan District and Jiangjin District in Chongqing City, the first-level tributary of the Yangtze River is rippling with blue waves on the river.
It is hard to imagine that three years ago, this place was a black and smelly water body with inferior Grade V water quality.
Linjiang River originated in Yongchuan District and merged into the Yangtze River in Jiangjin District.
"The water quality of the monitored section of Ciba is stable and reaches Class III. In 2019, we received 8.783 million yuan of ecological compensation in Jiangjin District." said Yang Luying, deputy director of the Yongchuan District Ecological Environment Bureau.
In 2018, in accordance with the principle of “who pollutes, who compensates, who protects and who benefits”, Chongqing implemented a river basin horizontal ecological compensation mechanism for 19 rivers across districts and counties.
Rivers across districts and counties have changed from "independent management" to "one management", with in-depth cooperation between upstream and downstream in pollution control.
A series of system designs are working towards the “deep water area” to build a benign pattern of coordinated efforts to protect the provinces and cities along the river——
Establish a negative list management system of "Negative List Guidelines + Implementation Rules of 11 Provinces and Cities along the Yangtze River"; realize unified monitoring, unified release, monthly evaluation, and quarterly warning of water quality across the Yangtze River Economic Zone; relevant provinces speed up the establishment of inter-provincial and intra-provincial horizontal ecology Compensation mechanism; the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River separately establish regional consultation and cooperation mechanisms...
Take the regional coordination to manage the vast hinterland and the vast coastal areas to create a new source of power supported by urban agglomerations——
On October 16, 2020, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held a meeting to deliberate the "Outline of the Construction Plan for the Chengdu-Chongqing Double-City Economic Circle".
Sing well "A Tale of Two Cities", and Chengdu and Chongqing burst into unprecedented cooperation vitality.
In September 2020, Baidu's "Western Autonomous Driving Open Test Base" was put into use in Yongchuan District, Chongqing.
Xiong Zupin, the person in charge of the project, said that the base plans to cooperate with Chengyu's car companies to develop businesses such as smart public transportation, autonomous driving logistics vehicles, and sanitation vehicles, and drive the clustering of industries such as intelligent networking and autonomous driving.
The integration of the "leader" of the Yangtze River Delta takes off, the "dragon body" of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is supported by the "dragon tail" of the Chengdu-Chongqing double-city economic circle, and the clustering and carrying capacity of the three major cities have been significantly improved, becoming the support for the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt Main power source.
A broad road of high-quality development
The population size and total economic output account for half of the country’s total. The Yangtze River Economic Belt will play an important role in implementing new development concepts, building a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development.
Here is the main battlefield of ecological priority green development——
Jinyun Mountain National Nature Reserve is a natural ecological barrier in the main urban area of Chongqing.
Starting in June 2018, Chongqing has carried out environmental improvement in the reserve, demolishing more than 500,000 square meters of various buildings (structures) and repairing more than 300,000 square meters of green space.
Li Ping, Director of the Ecological Restoration Division of the Chongqing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau, introduced that Chongqing is vigorously carrying out seven types of ecological restoration projects, including the improvement of land greening, comprehensive mine management, and biodiversity protection, to accelerate the construction of a "city of mountains and rivers and a beautiful place." ".
Starting from the integrity of the ecosystem and the systemicity of the river basin, tracing the source, and systematic treatment...The Yangtze River Economic Belt has steadily promoted the protection and restoration of the ecological environment system, and established a new comprehensive management system.
Here is the smooth domestic and international double circulation aorta——
At 10 o'clock in the morning on January 1, 2021, the siren sounded at the Chengdu International Railway Port and Chongqing International Logistics Hub, which are 280 kilometers apart.
The first China-Europe Express (Chengyu) train departs.
Since then, all the China-Europe Express trains operating between Chengdu and Chongqing have been named "Chengyu", regardless of each other.
The three major urban agglomerations have made concerted efforts, the joint development of provinces and cities along the Yangtze River, and the "One Belt One Road" linking the Yangtze River Economic Belt... the river and the sea are connected, surging, and merge into the global economic tide.
Here is the main force leading the high-quality development of the economy——
It suffered heavy losses in the first quarter, flattened in the second quarter, and turned positive in the third quarter... After being hit by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Wuhan's economy accelerated its recovery, and the local GDP in the first three quarters entered the top ten cities in the country.
Wuhan, which has been revived after the epidemic, demonstrates the resilience and vitality of the central city of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Innovation drives development, advanced industrial foundation and industrial chain modernization continue to improve...The vibrant Yangtze River Economic Belt is emerging as the main force of high-quality development.
Embark on a new journey, under the guidance of the new development concept, maintain historical patience and strategic determination, draw a blueprint to the end, one crop after another, the mother river of the Chinese nation will forever retain its vitality, and let a river of clear water last for generations. Benefit the people.
(Reporters An Bei, Chen Gang, Zhou Kai, Cheng Shihua, Wang Xian)