China News Service, Lanzhou, January 26 (Yan Jiao, Cui Lin, Liu Yutao) The Investigation Team of Yangguan Forest Farm in Gansu Province issued the "Investigation Report on the Destroyed Protection Forest in Dunhuang Yangguan Forest Farm" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") on the 26th.

The conference site.

Photo by Li Yalong

  The "Bulletin" pointed out that on January 20, the "Economic Information Daily" published an article in the survey column that reflected the destruction of the shelter forest in the Yangguan Forestry Farm in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province.

In this regard, the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government attach great importance to this. Lin Duo, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and Ren Zhenhe, Acting Governor of the Provincial Party Committee, gave instructions at the first time and immediately established an investigation team to conduct on-site verification of the situation reported by the media. Resolutely rectify the problem in place.

In the afternoon of the same day, Liu Changgen, deputy governor of the Gansu Provincial Government, led the investigation team to Dunhuang City for investigation and verification. The investigation team checked the problems reported by the media one by one through on-site visits, information retrieval, discussion exchanges, and individual conversations. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other national ministries and commissions were requested to provide authoritative satellite remote sensing data for verification, and a preliminary investigation conclusion was reached.

  The "Bulletin" introduced the basic situation of Yangguan Forest Farm:

  Founded in 1963, Yangguan Forest Farm is 70 kilometers away from the downtown area of ​​Dunhuang. It is connected to the Kumtag Desert to the northwest and Longle Village, Yangguan Town to the southeast. It is a forest farm owned by the whole people.

According to relevant data from Dunhuang City, the total operating area of ​​Yangguan Forest Farm in 2000 was 25,700 mu, of which the shelter forest area was about 6,500 mu, the garden area was 3270 mu (including about 3000 mu of vineyard land), and the other land was about 15,900 mu (including living land and unused land). Use place, etc.).

Up to now, the forest farm has 227 farmer households with 687 people and 13 management and protection personnel.

Among them, there are 3 formal staff, 6 long-term employees, 2 forest rangers, and 2 others.

  In 2006, in order to improve the operating efficiency of the forest farm and solve the livelihood problem of the forest farm employees, the forest farm was restructured into a self-receiving and self-supporting institution and implemented corporate management. The 3283 acres of vineyard land surveyed on the spot were contracted to the forest farm employees in the form of family contracting.

In the process of restructuring, 21 acres of vineyards were reclaimed in order to relocate 3 laid-off workers, increasing the area of ​​vineyards to 3304 acres.

  In 2007, Yangguan Forest Farm cooperated with Dunhuang Wine Industry Co., Ltd., Dunhuang Feitian Ecological Industry Co., Ltd., and Yongdeng Bibo Industry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Dunhuang Wine Industry Company, Dunhuang Feitian Company, and Yongdeng Bibo Company) Signed a forest land contract and leased 5000 acres of forest land to three companies for operation.

Among them, Dunhuang Wine Industry Company leases 2000 acres and pays a rent of 40,000 yuan per year to the forest farm; Dunhuang Feitian Company leases 2000 acres and pays a rent of 50,000 yuan per year; Yongdeng Bibo Company leases 1,000 acres and pays a rent of 10,000 yuan per year yuan.

The lease contract is clear that the company must strengthen forest management and maintenance to ensure the sustainable development of forest land.

However, in actual work, because the lessee did not strictly fulfill the responsibility of forest management and protection, the quality of the forest was reduced. From 2014 to 2017, Yangguan Forestry Farm terminated the contract with three lease companies and took back Dunhuang Feitian Company and Yongdeng Bi The 3000 acres of woodland leased by the Park Company; 1433 acres of woodland leased by Dunhuang Wine Industry Company was recovered.

During the lease period, from 2009 to 2012, Dunhuang Wine Company converted 567 acres of woodland into 400 acres of vineyard land and 167 acres of jujube orchards, which has not been recovered yet.

  In recent years, especially since 2018, Yangguan Forest Farm has done a lot of work in forest reconstruction, replanting and forest farm infrastructure construction.

Plant more than 6000 acres of shrubs such as Haloxylon ammodendron and Tamarisk on the unused land of the forest farm (not yet forested); strengthen the renovation and replanting of street trees on both sides of the forest farm road, and build a 65-kilometer long tree skeleton network; simultaneously promote the forest farm sanitation, water supply, environmental protection, etc. Infrastructure construction has achieved better results.

  Regarding the investigation and verification, the "Notice" pointed out:

  (1) Regarding the area of ​​forest land.

Before the Yangguan Forest Farm was built, most of the area was Gobi and sand dunes, except for a small number of trees that naturally grew on Yangguan Oasis.

According to the survey data of Dunhuang City in 2000, the Yangguan Forest Farm actually had an area of ​​6,500 mu of shelter forest.

After comparison and analysis of satellite remote sensing data over the years, no large-scale reduction of forest land has been found since 2000.

Satellite remote sensing data from 2018 to 2019 show that there are 3 suspected forest damage plots with an area of ​​about 42.98 mu within the forest farm. After on-site inspection, the main infrastructure of the Yangguan Forest Farm is the reconstruction of the gravel road and U-shaped irrigation canal. , As a result of laying pipelines and irrigation lines, no trees were cut to reclaim vineyards.

According to the latest satellite remote sensing data, the area of ​​shelter forest in Yangguan Forest Farm is 6,979 mu.

The “more than 20,000 mu of forest land” reported by the media is actually the management area of ​​the forest farm, and the “13,000 mu of ecological forest area” actually includes the forest farm’s arbor forest land, shrub forest land, nursery land, vineyard land and part of the unforested afforestation land, as well as roads. , Water area, construction land and other forest farm production and living land.

You can also intuitively see from the satellite pictures that the management area of ​​the Yangguan Forest Farm can be roughly divided into the southwest and the northeast. The 13,300 mu of forest land is actually this area in the southwest. The forest farm has only 6,000 for a long time. The remaining acres of shelter forest are basically located in the southwest area of ​​the forest farm.

  (2) Regarding the area of ​​vineyards.

Since the 1970s, in order to improve the income of employees and accumulate funds for forest management and protection in Yangguan Forest Farm, the employees of the forest farm have put forward the idea of ​​“protecting fruits with forests and growing forests with fruits; diversified management and comprehensive development according to local climate conditions. "The idea of ​​work, the introduction and selection of fruit tree varieties including grapes for promotion and cultivation have become the main source of income for farmers in the forest farm area.

Through the development of economic forests such as grapes, not only the living conditions of farmers in the forest farm have been improved, but also the area of ​​forest land and oasis has been increased, providing financial guarantee for the construction of forest protection forests and sand prevention and control work.

According to the survey, when the forest farm was contracted and restructured in 2006, there was a vineyard area of ​​3304 mu.

Through the comparison of satellite remote sensing data, the area of ​​vineyards did not change from 2006 to 2011.

In 2012, Dunhuang Winery Company, which leased the forest land, built 400 acres of vineyards through the reconstruction of the dilapidated forest.

So far, the forest farm has 3704 mu of vineyard land.

Since 2013, the vineyard area has not increased.

At the same time, the investigation team also consulted three national land survey data.

In 1999, the "First Adjustment" showed that Yangguan Forest Farm had 1488 mu of irrigated land and 2688 mu of orchards, totaling 4176 mu; in 2009, the "Second Adjustment" showed that Yangguan Forest Farm had 2 mu of irrigated land and 4452 mu of orchards, totaling 4,454. Mu; The “Three Adjustments” in 2019 showed that the forest farm has 19 mu of irrigated land and 4706 mu of orchard, totaling 4,725 mu.

From 1999 to 2019, the area of ​​irrigated land and orchards increased by 549 mu.

Excluding land occupation factors such as roads, ditches, and ridges, the land survey data and satellite remote sensing data comparison data are basically the same.

  (3) Regarding changes to public welfare forests.

According to the survey, in the national public welfare forest zoning work carried out in 2004, the forestry department identified the national key public welfare forest area of ​​Yangguan Forest Farm as 5,500 mu.

In the national public welfare forest delimitation work carried out in 2013, because most of the national key public welfare forests of Yangguan Forest Farm are about 50 years old, they are naturally aging and dead. According to the standards of the "Gansu Province Forest Land Delimitation Implementation Rules" (2012), The 5,500 acres of forest land in the forest farm no longer meets the national public welfare forest definition standards. After on-site investigation by experts organized by the former Provincial Forestry Department, all the national public welfare forest compensation scopes were transferred and listed as local public welfare forest management.

This is a loss for the Yangguan Forest Farm, because the national public welfare forest compensation is gone after the transfer.

In recent years, through strengthening the construction of afforestation and reforestation projects, especially the planted shrubs have reached the standard for forest production, Yangguan Forest Farm is striving to replenish it as a national public welfare forest.

  (4) About the influence on Dunhuang.

The city of Dunhuang covers an area of ​​31,200 square kilometers, mainly desert landforms.

However, there are Dunhuang and Yangguan oasis about 70 kilometers apart, with a total area of ​​about 1,400 square kilometers, of which Yangguan Forest Farm is a small part of Yangguan Oasis.

The investigation team requested the Satellite Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to carry out satellite remote sensing monitoring and analysis of Yangguan Oasis. The data showed that the area and vegetation conditions of Yangguan Oasis have not changed significantly since 2009.

The investigation team also consulted hydrological monitoring data for many years. The data showed that starting from 1983, the amount of water resources in the Xitugou Basin in Yangguan was generally stable and showed a slight increase trend.

Based on the analysis of relevant conditions, the current situation of Yangguan Oasis is stable, there is no obvious degradation and desertification phenomenon, and there is no threat to the ecological environment of Dunhuang.

  The investigation team also learned through the on-site investigation that the management of Yangguan Forest Farm is relatively extensive, and there are weak links in daily work, which led to some problems reported by the media.

  First, the forest tending work is not standardized enough.

In the process of forest regeneration and reconstruction, Yangguan Forest Farm harvested some of the aging and dead Xinjiang poplar trees and replanted shrub species such as Haloxylon ammodendron and Tamarisk, which led to a decrease in the area of ​​arbor forests and an increase in shrubs, especially During the forest lease period (that is, between 2007 and 2017), the area of ​​arbor has been reduced by more than 1,000 mu.

  The second is the insufficient management of forest regeneration and logging.

According to the on-site investigation, when Yangguan Forest Farm hired workers to harvest aging and dead trees some time ago, due to the lack of strict management of the forest farm, individual workers violated regulations and saw more than 10 roadside trees that were not completely dead from the bottom. The saw section was visible. Obvious traces of living wood.

  The third is the insufficient utilization of water resources.

At present, the Yangguan Forest Farm adopts flood irrigation method, and the water saving work is lagging behind. In addition, to ensure the water used by farmers for planting grapes, the water use of forest land is affected to a certain extent.

  Fourth, there are problems of illegal renting and poor coordination.

In 2007, Yangguan Forestry Farm leased out 5,000 mu of forest land to three companies.

The research team found that the examination and approval procedures for forest land leased by the forest farm were not standardized enough, and the contract text was not complete, especially after the lease management failed to keep up, resulting in ineffective woodland renovation and tending during the lease period.

In particular, Dunhuang Feitian Company implemented flood control dams, Moon Lake, Jiulian Lake and 13 flood control dams in Xitugou upstream of Yangguan Forest Farm in order to develop the fish breeding industry. The Xitugou River was intercepted and diverted, leading to the river course. The lower overflow spring was blocked by wind and sand, which affected the agricultural production and ecological irrigation water of the downstream Yangguan Forest Farm.

  The "Notice" pointed out that some of these projects implemented by Dunhuang Feitian Company were located in the Yangguan Nature Reserve and the Yangguan Site, which violated the relevant regulations on the protection and management of nature reserves and cultural relics, and constituted illegal construction activities.

These issues are reflected in the feedback opinions of the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectorate and the National Audit Office of the provincial party committee and the provincial government's main leaders' economic responsibility audit and the natural resource asset outgoing (in-service) audit.

In recent years, the divergence between Dunhuang Feitian’s own development interests and the interests of the masses and ecological protection requirements has become more prominent, and conflicts and disputes have emerged. The province and municipality have organized working groups for many times to investigate and guide problem rectification and conflict resolution work, but Feitian has appealed High, resulting in the inability to completely resolve the contradiction, and the problem has not been rectified.

  In response to the next work plan, the "Circular" puts forward:

  The historical and cultural status of Dunhuang is extremely important, and the ecological environment is extremely fragile. It is even more important and urgent to protect Dunhuang's ecological environment.

In the next step, we will draw inferences from one another, continue to strictly investigate, put forward rectification measures for existing problems, consolidate rectification responsibilities, ensure that comprehensive rectification is in place, and deal with relevant responsible persons strictly in accordance with laws and regulations.

  One is to earnestly study and implement Xi Jinping's thoughts on ecological civilization, unswervingly implement the concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", and strengthen the implementation of various laws and policies for the construction of ecological civilization.

  The second is to organize special research on Dunhuang ecological environment work, and strengthen overall planning while speeding up the resolution of specific problems to ensure the safety and stability of the Dunhuang ecological environment.

  The third is to clean up the 567 acres of vineyards and jujube orchards still occupied by Dunhuang Wine Company through reasonable and legal methods, and plant trees in a timely manner according to specific conditions to bring out ecological benefits.

  The fourth is to conscientiously do a good job in the management and protection of existing forest land, continue to promote afforestation, and continuously expand the area of ​​forests.

Actively promote the national public welfare forest declaration work of Yangguan Forest Farm, increase protection and enhance the ecological function of the forest farm.

  The fifth is to strengthen the management and utilization of water resources, improve water-saving systems and mechanisms, and improve the efficiency of water use and environmental carrying capacity.

Accelerate the advancement of the preliminary work of the water diversion and diversion project, and fundamentally solve the problems of Dunhuang water shortage and regional ecological protection and restoration.

  The sixth is to accelerate the resolution of remaining issues under the premise of laws and regulations, resolve differences to the maximum extent, properly resolve conflicts and disputes, and create a good development environment.