General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Yellow River estuary in Dongying City, Shandong Province on October 20.
In the afternoon, he came to the Yellow River Estuary Pier, the Yellow River Delta Ecological Monitoring Center, and the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve to observe the water conditions of the Yellow River and the ecological environment of the Yellow River Delta wetland, and learn about the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.
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The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, which gave birth to the ancient and great Chinese civilization.
This big river flows from the northern foot of the Bayan Har Mountain on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, flows through 9 provinces, and flows into the Bohai Sea in Dongying, Shandong.
This is a view of the "Three Gorges of the Yellow River" taken in Jiyuan, Henan (taken on September 12, 2020, UAV photo).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hao Yuan
The Yellow River is "Fighting Water and Seven Sands".
As one of the rivers with the highest sediment content, the most difficult to manage, and serious water damage in the world, the Yellow River has "two breaches in three years and one diversion in a hundred years" in the history of the Yellow River. The governance of the Yellow River has become a major problem that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years.
"Facts have proved that only under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the advantages of the socialist system can we truly realize the historic transformation of Yellow River governance from passive to active, and fundamentally change the painful situation of the Yellow River's two-fights in three years." General Secretary Xi Jinping once pointed out .
This is the sunset landscape of the Yellow River taken in Dalate Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia (taken on September 26, 2021, UAV photo).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Peng Yuan
As early as the beginning of the founding of New China, Comrade Mao Zedong issued a great call to "do the things in the Yellow River well".
Over the past few decades, China has successively carried out 4 large-scale embankment constructions, built Longyangxia, Liujiaxia, Xiaolangdi and other water conservancy projects, and achieved a major breakthrough from passive control to active regulation of the Yellow River's water and sand.
On March 28, 2021, the speedboat was driving in the Liujiaxia Reservoir on the Yellow River.
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According to statistics, in the 2500 years before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the lower Yellow River overflowed more than 1,500 times and changed its route 26 times.
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, it has been indefinitely for more than 70 years and continuously flowed for 22 years. It has withstood more than a dozen major floods and created a historical miracle of the Yellow River’s annual peace.
Watering thousands of miles of fertile fields, Ze was covered by thousands of households.
The Pentium Yellow River not only provides water resources for urban and rural development along the route, but the vibrant Yellow River has also become an ecological corridor.
Scenery of Panlong Bay of the Yellow River in Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province (taken on September 10, 2020, UAV photo).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shao Rui
General Secretary Xi Jinping cares about the Yellow River, and has conducted many field inspections on the ecological protection and economic and social development of the Yellow River Basin.
In September 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in Zhengzhou, which elevated the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin to a major national strategy.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi
General Secretary Xi Jinping prescribes the pulse of the "weak and sickly" Yellow River-to work together to protect and coordinate to promote major governance.
This has set the tone for the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in the future.
In late autumn, the Yellow River Delta Nature Reserve is about to usher in the busiest time of the year.
Every November, here will become a paradise for migratory birds.
The Yellow River Delta has the most complete, broadest and youngest wetland ecosystem in the warm temperate zone of our country. It is called the "Bird International Airport". As many as 6 million birds of various species migrate through each year and are listed as important international wetlands. Directory.
White swan waiting for birds to roost in the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Shandong (photographed on December 22, 2014).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Guo Xulei
From the previous rivers dry up, sea water inverted, the ecological balance was broken, and the wetland was facing the test of life and death, to the full vitality of the vast expanse of green fields and flying birds, a series of measures to strengthen the governance of the Yellow River and protect the ecology of the wetland are inseparable from the background——
The most indispensable thing in wetlands is water.
With the implementation of measures such as unified water regulation, water and sand regulation, and ecological water replenishment, the open water area of wetlands in the Yellow River Delta Nature Reserve has increased from 15% to 60% in 2019;
The comprehensive management of the Bohai Sea will be implemented as a marine ecological restoration project, and the sea-sea aquaculture pond will be demolished locally to restore the ecological shoreline;
In order to ensure water quality, we implemented pollution control measures such as blocking the sewage outfalls of the river, comprehensive improvement of the fishing port environment, and discharge of tail water from factory farming, which significantly improved the water quality of the coastal waters.
The Oriental White Stork is a national first-class protected animal. It first migrated through Dongying. In 2003, it began to build nests and breed in the reserve and became the "star" here.
In 2019, the Oriental White Stork was identified as the bird of Dongying City.
Not long ago, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Outline of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development Plan", which is a programmatic document guiding the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin at present and in the future.
The Yellow River Protection Law (draft) will also be submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for deliberation.
The blueprint is drawn and the law is escorted, and a more beautiful picture will be spread on both sides of the Yellow River.
Planning: Zhang Xudong
Coordinator: Zhang Xiaosong, Zou Wei, Wang Xuan, Lei Min
Lead writer: Gao Jing
Vision | Editor: Zhang Aifang, Zhu Gaoxiang
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