(Question about things) Short comment: Why is it said that China's ecological protection of the "third pole" is genuine?
China News Agency, Lhasa, July 29th, title: Why is China's ecological protection of the "Third Pole" genuine?
China News Agency reporter Xing Yi
China's top leader Xi Jinping once again visited Tibet after a lapse of 10 years.
The itinerary starts with the Yarlung Zangbo and Niyang River basins, highlighting the official importance of Tibet’s ecological and environmental protection.
Due to its special geographical environment, Tibet enjoys the reputation of "Third Pole", "Roof of the World", and "Asian Water Tower". It is an important ecological barrier for China and even Asia, and it is also the source of rivers and ecological sources for China and many Asian countries.
While the resources are abundant, the ecology of the snow-covered plateau also has a fragile side. Problems such as glacier retreat and permafrost melting have emerged in recent years.
Data map: The plateau lakes in Tibet are more than 4,400 meters above sea level, with good ecology and beautiful scenery.
China News Agency published Sun Zifa photo source: cnsphoto
Ecological issues have now become global issues, and there is no difference between China and the West.
It is for this reason that China’s top leaders will add an “ice” to the “landscapes, forests, fields, lakes, grasses, and sands,” and put forward requirements for integrated protection and system governance, highlighting the specificity of the region and the current situation; putting Tibet’s ecological protection in the protection of the Chinese nation The historical height of survival and development, and declared to be "responsible to history, responsible to the people, and responsible to the world" attitude to protect.
However, in recent years, some public opinion in the West still has criticized the ecology of Tibet, and believes that the Shangri-La in the Western imagination has been damaged.
In fact, the embryonic form of the western imagination of Tibet’s "spiritual utopia" was formed in the travel notes of foreigners who have entered Tibet for centuries. Most recorders regard the uninhabited land as barren land, high altitude, thin air, and hard-to-live natural environment. Romanticize.
Following industrialization, the West projected its environmental anxiety in industrialization on Tibet, one of the most primitive regions in the East.
Coupled with the ideological fetters in recent years, it is not surprising that the West's attention to Tibet's ecological protection has become extreme and untrue.
On July 26, the beautiful corner of the plateau lake Dawa Co, Coqin County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet.
Dawa Co Lake is 4,626 meters above sea level and covers an area of approximately 114.4 square kilometers.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sun Zifa
Some local Tibetan ecologists pointed out that before the 1950s, old Tibet was basically in a state of passively adapting to natural conditions and one-way acquisition of natural resources. There is no cognition of the ecological environment, let alone scientific and effective protection.
What is the status of ecological protection in Tibet?
Travelers feel that they will not lie.
In Nyingchi, the peach blossoms bloom in the former logging village, and the business card of the Peach Blossom Festival is well-known; on both banks of the Yajiang River, the wind and sand that once raged have almost disappeared; the “sky roads” that were opened to traffic have become “green railways”. Wild animals along the route set aside a "passage for life."
What is the attitude of Tibet's ecological protection?
The construction of the rule of law will not lie.
Since the reform and opening up, the development of ecological and environmental protection in Tibet has entered the track of rule of law, and a systematic local ecological protection legal system has gradually formed.
The latest "Regulations on the Construction of National Ecological Civilization Highlands in the Tibet Autonomous Region" was deliberated and passed in January this year and implemented in May, becoming Tibet's first comprehensive regulation on the construction of ecological civilization.
The picture shows the Lalin high-grade highway passing through the Bayi District of Nyingchi City.
Photo by Jiang Feibo
How is the progress of ecological protection in Tibet?
The facts will not lie.
From the peaceful liberation to 2020, the government has invested a total of 81.4 billion yuan in the field of ecological environment.
From 2004 to 2014 alone, the area of desertified land in Tibet decreased by 92,400 hectares, and the area of desertified land decreased by 100.7 million hectares.
In 2020, the comprehensive vegetation coverage of natural grassland will increase to 47%.
At present, the number of black-necked cranes has risen from less than 3,000 to more than 8,000, and there are about 300,000 Tibetan antelopes.
The number of days with good air reached 99.4%.
It can be said that Tibet is still one of the regions with the best ecological environment in the world.
This is not easy.
For Tibet, it is not only an important ecological security barrier, but also once the only contiguous poverty-stricken province in China.
The dilemma of human development and ecological protection may be difficult for Western developed economies to empathize with.
Today's Tibetans are well versed in the ecological concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, and ice and snow are also golden mountains and silver mountains".
Facts have become the best proof: for more than 10 years, the overall situation in Tibet has been stable, and higher-quality development has been sought on the basis of strong ecological protection. The focus of Tibet's new development pattern has been determined.
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