[When learning is in progress] February 2 is the 25th World Wetland Day.

Ecology is a unified natural system, an organic chain of interdependence and close connection.

In this organic chain, wetlands are an essential link.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the importance of wetlands during inspections, and has been concerned about the protection and restoration of wetlands.

Xinhua News Agency's "Learning in Progress" original brand column "Lectures" published articles to review the story of Xi Jinping and the wetland for you.

  February 2 is the 25th "World Wetland Day".

  As the "kidney of the earth", wetlands play important functions in water conservation, water purification, flood storage and drought resistance, climate regulation, and maintenance of biodiversity. It is an important natural ecosystem and an important part of natural ecological space.

  Wetland protection is an important part of the construction of ecological civilization. It is related to national ecological security, sustainable economic and social development, and the survival and well-being of the descendants of the Chinese nation.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the importance of wetlands during inspections, and has been concerned about the protection and restoration of wetlands.

"Cannot compete with nature for development space"

  In August 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping made an in-depth investigation and investigation in Anhui on strengthening flood prevention and relief and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.

  After entering the flood season, Anhui's north-south three-line operations made flood prevention and disaster relief tasks arduous.

After continuously exceeding the warning water level, Hefei took the initiative to use the ecological wetland flood storage area around Chaohu Lake to block, drain, divide, and strengthen the embankment, effectively alleviating the flood control pressure in Hefei.

Wetland has become an "ecological dam" for flood prevention and flood fighting.

  After learning more about the flood control and disaster relief work of Chaohu Lake and dam-fixing and dike inspection, Xi Jinping emphasized that we must adhere to the positioning and planning of the ecological wetland flood storage area to prevent encroachment and encroachment, and protect the flood storage and ecological protection functions of the ecological wetland.

  "After the flood retreats, it is necessary to prevent the phenomenon of water receding and people entering in the flood storage area. If we want to achieve harmony between man and nature, we cannot compete with nature for development space." Man and nature are the community of life.

There are no substitutes for the ecological environment.

Only by cherishing and protecting the wetland daily can the wetland fully play its role at the most critical moment.

  "We must manage Chaohu Lake and protect the ecological wetland, so that Chaohu Lake will become Hefei's best business card." Xi Jinping's words are long-term.

"Wetland is valuable in the original ecology"

  Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park integrates urban wetlands, agricultural wetlands and cultural wetlands, and is the country's first national wetland park.

  On March 31, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park.

  "Wetlands are valuable in the original ecology, and the original ecology is the capital of tourism."

Seeing the Xixi Wetland with lush vegetation and greenery, Xi Jinping pointed out the importance of protecting the original ecology of the wetland.

He especially emphasized four “cannots”: the development of tourism cannot sacrifice the ecological environment, cannot engage in excessive commercial development, cannot build some buildings that affect the ecological environment, let alone private clubs, and make the park a green space shared by the people.

  Xi Jinping's attention to and protection of urban wetlands reflects his grasp of the direction of urban development, persistence in the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and emphasis on the interests of the people.

  "We must protect the West Lake and Xixi Wetland as a clear guide for Hangzhou's urban development and governance," the general secretary entrusted.

Coordinating the three spatial layouts of production, living, and ecology, and building a livable city where man and nature live in harmony and co-exist and prosper is not only an expectation for the development and governance of Hangzhou, but also a clear direction for the development and governance of other cities.

"We can't eat food for children and grandchildren, we want to benefit mankind"

  In the Dianchi Lake in winter, the sun is shining and flocks of gulls.

  On January 20, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who is on an inspection tour in Yunnan, came to the ecological wetland of Xinghai Peninsula in Dianchi Lake to observe the protection and governance of Dianchi Lake.

  Dianchi Lake covers an area of ​​more than 300 square kilometers, making it the largest plateau lake in Yunnan.

In the 1990s, the water quality of Dianchi Lake gradually deteriorated to inferior Class V, becoming one of the most polluted lakes in China.

After years of unremitting management, the ecological environment of Dianchi Lake has been greatly improved, and this gem inlaid in Kunming has been able to regain its brilliance.

  "In the long run, we can't eat food for our children and grandchildren, we want to benefit mankind. We must continue to grasp, persevere and work hard for a long time, and turn the green waters and green mountains into gold and silver mountains." After inquiring in detail about the protection and management of Dianchi Lake and the improvement of water quality , Xi Jinping has a long-term focus.

He encouraged, to show the strength to insist on the green mountains and not to relax, according to the concept of landscape, forest, field, lake and grass as a life community, strengthen comprehensive management, systematic management, source management, and make persistent efforts to do better management of Dianchi Lake.

  This is not the first time Xi Jinping has cared about wetland ecology during his inspection in Yunnan.

In January 2015, Xi Jinping also took a close look at the ecological protection of the wetland at Erhai Beach.

  "Cangshan is not a thousand-year-old painting, Erhai has no strings and Wanguqin".

Facing the beautiful scenery of Erhai Lake, Xi Jinping emphasized that economic development must not be at the expense of destroying the ecological environment.

Ecological protection is a long-term task, and it takes a long time to work.

  Xi Jinping's guidance on the protection of Yunnan wetlands reflects the dialectical and unified relationship between economic development and ecological environment protection.

Protecting the ecological environment means protecting productivity, and improving the ecological environment means developing productivity.

Green water and green mountains are not only natural wealth, ecological wealth, but also social wealth and economic wealth.

"We must leave a clean and beautiful Yangtze River for future generations"

  Dongting Lake is the mother lake of the children of Sanxiang.

The total area of ​​the 4 nature reserves of Dongting Lake is 3,076 square kilometers, accounting for two-thirds of the total area of ​​wetland nature reserves in 7 provinces and cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

  In April 2018, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the implementation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt development strategy, he went to the Hualong Wharf in Junshan, Yueyang City, Hunan Province to observe the illegal sand and gravel wharf ban and reforestation and wetland restoration.

  At the end of spring in the East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve, the wetlands are shaded by reeds, and the finless porpoises in the river are prancing, and it is full of vitality.

  Junshan Hualong Wharf is located on the river beach of the mainstream of the Yangtze River. This illegal sand and gravel wharf that used to have a cross-flow of sewage has been rehabilitated and rehabilitated, and the wetland has been restored.

  Wetland restoration is an essential part of the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River.

Restoring the ecological environment of the Yangtze River is an arduous task entrusted to us by the new era, and it is also the eager expectation of the people.

  "We must not allow the ecological environment of the Yangtze River to continue to deteriorate in the hands of our generation. We must leave a clean and beautiful Yangtze River for future generations!" During the inspection, Xi Jinping's words were both spurs and encouragements.

"The subsided area must adhere to the path of transformation and development in line with national conditions"

  Xuzhou’s largest coal mining subsidence area with the most serious subsidence is devastated and crops are not growing... This is a true portrayal of Shennong Wharf before the renovation of the Pan'an coal mining subsidence area in Jiawang District, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province.

  In December 2017, when Xi Jinping came to Shennong Wharf, the once barren coal mining subsidence area has undergone ecological restoration and landscape construction, and has turned into a national wetland park with a vast lake and beautiful scenery.

  Seeing the new look of the wetland park, Xi Jinping humorously praised Jia Wang for his good transformation and practice. Now it is "really prosperous."

  The economic transformation and development of resource-exhausted regions is a big article.

Xi Jinping pointed out the key to doing this article well: to implement the new development concept, and unswervingly follow the path of civilized development featuring development of production, prosperity of life, and sound ecology.

  "The subsided area must adhere to the path of transformation and development that conforms to the national conditions, create green water and green mountains, and turn green water and green mountains into golden mountains and silver mountains." The general secretary expects.