The Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation.
Five years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the strategic requirement of “to protect the Yangtze River Economic Belt without major development”. In the past five years, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have promoted ecological environment improvement. , To promote a comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. The intensity, scale, and impact are unprecedented. The ecological and environmental protection of the Yangtze River Economic Zone has undergone turning changes and historic achievements have been made in economic and social development.
Ecological priority, green development.
Great changes have taken place in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
He Chaoming, director of the Forestry Station in Shigu Town, Yulong County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province: The water in the Jinsha River is clearer than before.
Li Xiantai, a cleaning worker from Fengjie County City Appearance and Environmental Sanitation Management Office, Chongqing City: I used to fish for a few fish, but now I am fishing for floating objects and garbage from the Yangtze River to protect the mother river.
Chen Fu, associate researcher at the Institute of Space Information Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: It can be seen that the lights have become significantly brighter within 5 years, and some dimmed areas can be found, such as some mines and chemical parks on both sides of the Yangtze River. The lights have disappeared .
Regarding the changes in the Yangtze River in the past five years, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “The ecological and environmental protection of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has undergone a turning point and historic achievements have been made in economic and social development. The economic development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has been generally stable, the structure has been optimized, and the people’s living standards have been significant. Improve, realize protection in development and development in protection."
Luo Guosan, Director of the Basic Department of the National Development and Reform Commission: Five years of development shows that ecological environmental protection and high-quality economic and social development are not a pair of contradictions, but a mutually reinforcing relationship. Xi Jinping’s ecological civilization thought has achieved obvious results in the Yangtze River Economic Belt The results.
General Secretary Xi Jinping "opened the pulse" for the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and initiated the changes in the concepts of provinces and cities along the Yangtze River.
Pengze County in Jiangxi Province has nearly one-third of the Yangtze River coastline in the province. In 2015, Pengze set the goal of "developing the economic belt along the Yangtze River, and decisively fighting against industry of 60 billion yuan".
Just as Peng Ze was preparing to start the project, Jiuqu Yangtze River ushered in the most important development "turn".
On January 5, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed that “at present and for a long period of time in the future, the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River should be placed in an overwhelming position, and major protection should be taken together without major development”.
Fang Zhongsheng, deputy magistrate of Pengze County, Jiangxi Province: Earnestly study the spirit of the general secretary’s speech, and no longer stare at picking fruits in front of you, but look at the future to plant trees.
Think clearly about the willingness and gain, and the small and the big.
Over the past few years, Peng Ze has rejected a number of investment projects with potential environmental hazards, instead of green industries such as port logistics economy, with a scale of over 70 billion.
Not only in Pengze, but also in Jiangxi province, investment in traditional industries has fallen sharply, especially in steel, which has fallen by two percentage points in five years; and the total investment in green economy industries such as electronic information has increased by five times.
Liu Bing, full-time deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Ecological Civilization Office: The industrial structure has been further optimized.
The green development path has become the best path.
Wu Xiaohua, Vice President of the China Academy of Macroeconomics: The change of philosophy has led to a series of policy adjustments and practical operations. The General Secretary asked us to take a new path of dealing with the relationship between economic development and environmental protection. This new path is not only for us It works, and it goes wider and wider.
In the first 11 months of 2020, the proportion of sections with good water quality in the Yangtze River was 96.3%, an increase of 14 percentage points from 2016.
In the past five years, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has been stronger and more sustainable.
In the first three quarters of 2020, the regional GDP of 11 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River reached 33.5 trillion yuan, accounting for 46.6% of the national total.
Chang Jiwen, deputy director of the Institute of Resources and Environmental Policy of the Development Research Center of the State Council: The Yangtze River Economic Belt is a vivid practice of Xi Jinping's thoughts on ecological civilization.
Take the Yangtze River as a starting point and extend it to other major rivers, so as to realize the priority of protection and green development of major rivers across the country.