"Drawing a new picture of the harmony of landscapes, rivers, people and cities" (New ideas lead a new journey·Answer to the era)
The Yangtze River has a unique ecosystem and is an important ecological treasure house in China.
At present and for a long period of time in the future, it is necessary to put the restoration of the Yangtze River's ecological environment in an overwhelming position, and to protect the Yangtze River's ecological environment without major development.
Unswervingly implement the new development concept, promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, write a new chapter in ecological priority and green development, create a new model for regional coordinated development, build a new high-level opening up to the outside world, shape new advantages in innovation-driven development, and paint landscapes and people The new picture of harmonious integration of cities and cities has made the Yangtze River Economic Belt the main battlefield of China's ecological priority green development, unblocking the domestic and international dual-cycle aorta, and leading the main force of high-quality economic development.
——Xi Jinping
"I will never forget the scene of the day." Gu Qiangsheng, the former general manager of Wuhan Port Group, recalled.
It was July 21, 2013. General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Yangluo container port area of Wuhan Xingang.
Gu Qiangsheng said that the general secretary rolled up his trouser legs, held an umbrella, wandered through the stagnant water, and learned about the cargo throughput of the port.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that to vigorously develop the modern logistics industry, the Yangtze River Basin must strengthen cooperation, give full play to the role of inland navigation, develop river-sea combined transportation, and turn the entire basin into a golden waterway.
From Bashan and Shushui to Jiangnan Water Village, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s indoctrination has echoed in the hearts of cadres and masses along the Yangtze River for a long time.
From "promotion", "in-depth promotion" to "all-round promotion", in 2016, 2018, and 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping chaired the Yangtze River Economic Belt Development Symposium 3 times and delivered important speeches, leading the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Under the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important instructions, the magnificent picture of the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is unfolding.
We must protect and do not engage in large-scale development
The sky was faintly bright, and Wen Zhiqiang from Gangwan Village, Lanxi Town, Heshan District, Yiyang, Hunan, was in the water beside the Zijiang River in the South Dongting Lake.
After fishing was banned on 4 rivers in Yuanli, Xiangzi, Lao Wen, who had been working for decades, handed over his fishing gear.
Soon, the town helped Lao Wen and the others set up a company and contracted the business of salvaging floating garbage in the river.
It's still this river, or this boat.
In the evening, Wen Zhiqiang's boat returned to the pier.
The ship was full of dangdang, carrying aquatic plants and a small amount of garbage.
Starting at 0:00 on January 1, 2020, 332 nature reserves and aquatic germplasm resource reserves in the Yangtze River Basin have completely banned productive fishing.
Prior to this, various localities have been thoroughly investigated to help fishermen start a new life.
On the river, fishing nets have disappeared; along the bank, factories that discharge pollutants are also retreating.
The "Yanji Sunset in Nanjing" was once one of the forty-eight sceneries of Jinling.
However, since the 1980s, chemical companies have gathered here. Only in the west branch of Changgou, Beishili, to the east of Yanziji, there have been fifty or sixty, and wastewater is discharged directly into the river.
Kong Ling, a retired worker at the Nanjing Chemical Plant, said: "Cover your nose when you pass by."
How to crack the "Chemical Encirclement of the River"?
Nanjing vigorously renovated and completed the shutdown, relocation and dismantling of 404 enterprises in the Yanziji area.
The small chemical enterprises along the west branch of Changgou in Beishili were cleared and retreated, the whole line of hidden culverts and open ditch was dredged, and the outlets of 46 open sections were comprehensively rectified...
With clear waters and green banks, Yanziji has once again become a comfortable space for citizens.
Nowadays, Kong Ling often walks along the river at night, "The water is so clear that you can see the bottom, and flocks of egrets are flying here."
On January 5, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping held a symposium on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Chongqing.
The general secretary pointed out that the Yangtze River has a unique ecosystem and is an important ecological treasure house in China.
At present and for a long period of time in the future, it is necessary to put the restoration of the Yangtze River's ecological environment in an overwhelming position, and to protect the Yangtze River's ecological environment without major development.
In January 2019, promote the third meeting of the Office of the Leading Group for the Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt to hand over 163 outstanding issues to 11 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River, establish a problem ledger and work scheduling supervision mechanism, and supervise and expose related issues through unannounced visits and investigations.
In the fourth meeting in November of the same year, the newly disclosed 152 outstanding ecological and environmental problems were handed over to 11 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River.
To be problem-oriented, find one, solve one, promote the discovery of regular problems, and advance the governance from the outside to the inside.
In early 2018, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan jointly signed the "Chishui River Basin Horizontal Ecological Protection Compensation Agreement". The three provinces invested 200 million yuan to establish a compensation fund and establish a multi-provincial river basin horizontal ecological compensation mechanism.
Guided by the problem, inferring from one another, from the slight to the macro, the development concept of various places has changed.
Two mountains are located between each other, two waters are divided, and an island is now in the middle of the river.
More than 10 years ago, Chongqing Guangyang Island, the largest Jiangxin Island in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, was once used as a villa development zone. Machines were opened, hillsides were flattened, and vegetation was torn down.
Jiang Wei, an employee of Guangyang Island Green Development Company, went to the island to participate in the project that year.
On August 3, 2017, the stop button was pressed for the development of Guangyang Island.
"The Chongqing Municipal Party Committee proposes to strictly compare the spirit of the important directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping's "to protect and not engage in large-scale development", and to build an important ecological barrier on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River!" said Dong Jianguo, director of the Chongqing Development and Reform Commission.
From April 15 to 17, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Chongqing and asked Chongqing to play an exemplary role in promoting the green development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Chongqing has made a new plan for the Guangyang Island area.
Witnessing the company's change from a "development and investment company" to a "green development company", Jiang Wei is determined to stay on the island, believing that he has a lot to do.
There are also great changes in Chengdu Tianfu New District.
On February 11, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping came here and pointed out that “it is necessary to highlight the characteristics of park cities and take ecological values into consideration”.
Today's Xinglong Lake is surrounded by green mountains in the distance and clear water like a mirror in the vicinity.
It is hard to imagine that the water quality of 4,500 acres of water here was Grade V or even worse than Grade V.
In recent years, with the completion of hundreds of kilometers of sewage interception pipelines, the closure of 139 breeding farms in the forbidden area, and the construction of the Luxi River Ecological Zone, the water quality of Xinglong Lake has stabilized at Class IV.
Good ecology has become the bright business card of Tianfu New District.
Enterprises with high energy consumption and high pollution are not allowed to enter, the development area of the central area only accounts for 30%, and the rest is left to mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasses.
Under the high ecological threshold, the world's top 500 companies are racing to settle in.
After a long time of work, and the river water as evidence, the ecological environmental protection of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has undergone a turning point.
In 2020, the proportion of sections with good water quality in the Yangtze River Basin will be 96.7%, an increase of 14.4% from 2016, and the main stream will reach Class II water quality for the first time.
Explore a new path of ecological priority and green development
"Factory fish farming is more powerful than using cages!" In a breeding workshop larger than a football field, Lu Zhiguo, a villager in Qinglinsi Village, Yidu City, Yichang, Hubei, patrolled the rows of sturgeon fry ponds. In a few years, these more than 300,000 sturgeons can produce caviar that has surpassed gold.
This is China's Qingjiang (Yidu) Sturgeon Valley, located on the bank of Qingjiang, the main tributary of the Yangtze River.
Lu Zhiguo was the first group of people to raise fish in the Gaobazhou Reservoir Area of Qingjiang River. He made money by erecting the cages, but he found that “the water is getting more and more smelly, and more and more fish die from diseases.” The area of the cages in the reservoir area is increasing. At one time, it was nearly 900,000 square meters, and the water quality in some areas became worse than Grade V.
"The city of sturgeon" Yidu took the lead in seeking change, completely removing the cages and introducing professional breeding enterprises, Lu Zhiguo also became the deputy director of the breeding workshop.
Electricity is solar energy, water is circulating water, constant temperature and humidity... Today's Qingjiang Gaobazhou Reservoir area, the surface water maintains the water quality above Class II all year round.
Ji Jianyi, the head of Qingjiang Sturgeon Valley, is equally motivated.
At the end of November 2020, the second phase of the project was completed and put into production, the fish pond area has tripled, and the aquaculture scale has reached 4,000 tons. The third phase of the project is also under construction.
On June 20 this year, the Sturgeon Valley Workstation of the National Featured Freshwater Fish Industry Technology System was launched here, and Sturgeon Valley ushered in a large number of expert teams.
The pressure of environmental protection has transformed traditional agriculture and also helped traditional industrial enterprises to nirvana.
Chen Xiaoqing, assistant to the general manager of Yichang Xingfa Group, remembers very clearly that in 2017, Yichang City took the lead in initiating the customs, reform, relocation, and transfer of 134 chemical companies within 1 kilometer along the Yangtze River.
The strong man broke his wrist.
Xingfa Group dismantled 22 sets of production facilities close to the Yangtze River; seized the opportunity of Hubei’s "Ten Thousand Enterprises Trillion Technological Transformation Project" and invested 2 billion yuan to cultivate electronic chemicals and new organic silicon materials industries.
"On April 24, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Xingfa Group's Yichang New Materials Industrial Park and pointed out that not doing large-scale development is not about not doing development, but not doing destructive development, and we must take the path of ecological priority and green development." Chen Xiaoqing introduced that Xingfa Group is committed to taking the path of ecological priority and green development, and its benefits have continued to improve. Its annual sales have increased from 32 billion yuan in 2016 to 40.5 billion yuan in 2020.
"We are a big country and we must have our own things in technological innovation." General Secretary Xi Jinping's advice was remembered by Zhuang Dan, president of Wuhan Optics Valley's YOFC Co., Ltd.
An optical fiber preform with a length of more than 3 meters can become a single drawn optical fiber of 8,500 kilometers under high temperature.
Zhuang Dan said, "Before YOFC's independent research and development capabilities were improved, optical fibers were all imported. In the 1990s, the price sold to us abroad was 1,000 yuan per kilometer. Today, our own products only cost tens of yuan per kilometer."
On April 26, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted a symposium on in-depth promotion of the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Wuhan, emphasizing efforts to build the Yangtze River Economic Belt into a more beautiful ecology, smoother transportation, more coordinated economy, more unified market, and more scientific mechanism. The golden economic belt in China has explored a new path of ecological priority and green development.
Advance the industrial base and modernize the industrial chain.
Liu Xinhua, deputy director of the Wuhan Municipal Development and Reform Commission, looked forward from the perspective of regional driving: “Wuhan will join Wuhan, Ezhou, Huanggang, Huangshi, and Xianning along the Yangtze River Economic Belt to create the Optics Valley Science and Technology Innovation Corridor.” His introduction outlined. A larger background: along the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the optoelectronic industry is gradually taking shape, integrated circuits in Shanghai, display devices in Nanjing and Hefei, terminal equipment in Chongqing...
In recent years, the four cities of Wuhan, Changsha, Hefei, and Nanchang have insisted on holding the "Conference Chamber of Provincial Capital Cities in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River" every year to explore and promote the win-win cooperation of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.
On July 9 this year, the Science and Technology Service Industry Development Forum of the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River City Group and the establishment meeting of the Science and Technology Service Alliance of the Middle Reaches City Group of the Yangtze River were held in Changsha. Awarded licenses to more than 30 alliance member units, and the comprehensive technology service platform of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River was officially launched to fully assist in the realization of cross-regional instrument resource sharing.
The government promoted and the market exerted its power, like a surging Yangtze River, returning from a hundred sources, eventually becoming a huge storm.
Shanghai Songjiang G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, named after the Shanghai-Kunming Expressway, is also famous for opening up the upstream and downstream industrial chains of high-tech products in nine cities along the route.
With the outbreak of the epidemic, Shanghai Keda Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. realized the power of opening up the industrial chain.
At that time, the mask was in a hurry. They quickly developed a mask machine. During the Spring Festival in 2020, they took out the drawings. “Almost all the upstream and downstream industrial chains are in the Yangtze River Delta region. They communicated quickly and put into mass production within one month.” The relevant person in charge of the company introduced and continued Improved, it can now produce 1,000 masks per minute.
There are currently 72 sci-tech innovation board companies in the nine cities in the G60 Science and Technology Corridor, accounting for one-fifth of the number of listed sci-tech innovation board companies in the country.
Songjiang District Party Committee Secretary Cheng Xiangmin believes that the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor is an important engine for the integrated and high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta and will also play an important role in smoothing the domestic cycle.
During the three years of the development of the G60 Science and Technology Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta, the total GDP of the nine cities rose from 1/16 to 1/15 in the country, and the local fiscal revenue rose from 1/15 to 1/12; the number of market entities rose from 1/18 Increased to 1/16; the number of high-tech enterprises rose from 1/12 to 1/10.
Find a precise position in the new development pattern and actively open the market to the world
The Three Gorges Dam, the Gaoxia Pinghu Lake, which has completed 175 meters of experimental water storage, has all the water on the banks and has a wide field of vision. It is as dazzling as a mirror under the sun.
The Three Gorges Dam has witnessed the all-round appreciation of the "golden waterway": From June 2003 to June 2021, the Three Gorges ship lock has safely passed 912,400 ships, 1,604 million tons of cargo, and 12.228 million passengers.
"It now appears that the demand for the Three Gorges Ship Lock to pass the dam is still increasing." said Qi Junlin, party secretary of the Yangtze Three Gorges Navigation Administration Bureau.
This is not just a challenge facing the Three Gorges Dam.
With the rapid economic development, the vast number of cadres and people along the Yangtze River are thinking about how to make the "golden waterway" more three-dimensional, more efficient, more environmentally friendly, and more energetic?
Entering the Guoyuan Port in Liangjiang New District, Chongqing, Chuan and Yu brand trucks flowed endlessly. On the riverside, a fully loaded freighter was docking and the shore machine began to slide.
At 8 o'clock every morning, Zheng Xiao, the assistant manager of the equipment management department of Chongqing Orchard Bulk Cargo Terminal Company, began to inspect the terminal.
"We must never live up to the general secretary's entrustment!" Recalling the scene more than five years ago, the 34-year-old Zheng Xiao said: "The general secretary came to Guoyuan Port and urged us to serve the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and serve the'Belt and Road' initiative. Good construction services and good services for the in-depth promotion of the development of the western region."
Orchard Port is now more than just an inland port.
To the east and downstream, it connects the various port cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt; to the west, it connects with the China-Europe Express (Chongqing), which connects northwest China, Central Asia, and Europe; to the south, the "water-rail transport" directly connects to the new land-sea channel in the west.
In 2020, Guoyuan Port has shipped more than 210 China-Europe freight trains (Chongqing), an increase of 600% year-on-year; more than 60 new land-sea freight trains have been shipped.
"From ship to ship, to multimodal transportation, railway, aviation, and high-speed, the port area is getting more and more lively." After working in Guoyuan Port for more than 5 years, Zheng Xiao's vision is getting wider and wider.
It is also "boats coming and going". Zhang Lin, director of Wuhan Newport Management Committee, reinterpreted the meaning of inland river ports.
At 20 o'clock on August 14, 2020, the container liner "China Airlines Hanya 2" set sail from Yangluo Port of Wuhan New Port to Japan.
This marks the smooth resumption of the direct international container liner route from Wuhan to Japan opened in November 2019, and it also means that Wuhan New Port has become the first port of river-sea combined transportation on the inland waterway of the Yangtze River.
"The direct connection between the river and the sea not only shortens the time, but more importantly, it establishes a new channel for overseas trade. It is expected that direct flights to South Korea will be opened this year." Zhang Lin said.
On March 26 this year, the 6-meter water-deep waterway improvement project from Wuhan to Anqing was fully completed and put into use. The water expressway that "passes Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai" was completed, and 10,000-ton ships can reach Wuhan directly from the Yangtze River estuary.
In order to systematically improve the traffic capacity of the arterial channel, the Wuhan Xingang Administration Committee also invested 300 million yuan to develop and build 6 new ships that can carry 1,140 containers. The maximum load capacity is doubled for the direct connection between Wuhan and Shanghai. The route reduces transportation costs by 30% and fuel consumption by more than 20%.
On November 14, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted a symposium on comprehensively promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Nanjing. He pointed out that the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River should find their respective positions in the new development pattern of mutual promotion of domestic and international double cycles, and actively open their markets to the world. .
The rivers and seas flow across the river, and the world is vast.
Guoyuan Port and Wuhan New Port jump out of the Yangtze River to see the Yangtze River, while Ningbo Zhoushan Port faces the ocean to see the Yangtze River.
Port cargo throughput is the largest in the world, and container throughput is the third in the world... No matter which number, it is proud.
In addition, it is also at the forefront of integrating into the Yangtze River Economic Belt: to build the largest iron ore transfer terminal, 85% of which enters the Yangtze River Economic Belt through river-sea combined transportation; to carry out terminal cooperative operation in Nanjing, Taicang and other places; to cooperate with Chongqing Transportation Group to develop Yuyong Sea-Rail Combined Transport Train...
But in the view of Jiang Wei, secretary of the board of directors of Ningbo Zhoushan Port Co., Ltd., this is far from enough.
On March 29, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to the Chuanshan Port Area of Zhoushan Port, Ningbo, and inspected the scene of container operations at the terminal in the rain.
"The General Secretary asked us to work hard to build a world-class strong port." Jiang Wei said, "Big, we are big enough, but there is still room for effort in international shipping center, smart port construction, industry standard formulation, etc. How can we better serve the Yangtze River economy? There is a long way to go with development."
The sun is shining and the sea breeze is swaying.
In Ningbo Zhoushan Port, the 220,000-ton-class "Mediterranean Phoebe" is leaving the port. On its starboard side, the slogan "Do not forget the general secretary's request, build a world-class strong port" is particularly eye-catching, shining in the sun flash……
Our reporter Fei Weiwei Zhu Lei Ke Zhongjia
(Reporters Wang Mingfeng, Cui Jia, Cheng Yuanzhou, He Yong, Shen Lin, and Fang Min participated in the writing)
"People's Daily" (October 21, 2021 01 Edition)