"I have always been concerned about the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. When I came here today, I have walked along the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River."
From the source of the Three Rivers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the mouth of the Yellow River, it is more than 4,000 meters from the elevation difference, more than 5,400 kilometers from the length of the Yellow River, and more than 5,000 years from the history of Chinese civilization.
The vast time and space are all in the words of General Secretary Xi Jinping when he visited the Yellow River estuary on the afternoon of October 20.
"Promote the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, and create a new era of the Yellow River chorus!"-General Secretary Xi Jinping has inspected the Yellow River many times in the past few years.
Solidly promoting the protection of the Yellow River and ensuring the safety of the Yellow River is a major task of governing the country.
In the heart of the general secretary, the Yellow River chorus of the new era is symphony.
More than 700 days.
This is October 22, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on in-depth promotion of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in Jinan, Shandong, and a symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in Zhengzhou, Henan Province on September 18, 2019. The interval between meetings.
Over the past two years, the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin have undergone profound changes.
General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Shanxi, Ningxia and other places to investigate and investigate the ecological protection of the Yellow River Basin.
According to the deployment of the Party Central Committee, various tasks have been intensified to build the "four beams and eight pillars" for the protection and management of the Yellow River, rectify ecological environmental problems, promote ecological protection and restoration, improve the governance system, and make new progress in high-quality development.
The symposium held in Jinan this time is a further mobilization and there are many new deployments.
The four words "in-depth promotion" in the name of the symposium show that this national strategy is advancing in depth and in an all-round way.
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For the “in-depth promotion” of this national strategy, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again put forward a clear request to “unswervingly follow the path of modernization with ecological priority and green development” and “taking major protection as a key task”, and put forward the rectification and improvement of environmental issues. The "three tough battles" of deep water conservation and water control, and ecological protection and restoration will promote the "three changes" of quality reform, efficiency reform, and power reform of the river basin's economic development.
"Ensure the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period to achieve significant results, and make unremitting efforts for the Yellow River to benefit the Chinese nation forever." During the critical period of China, we must do a good job in implementing major tasks, and strive to see the new atmosphere as soon as possible.
Between the two symposiums, separated by a pandemic that ravaged the world, we coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic development, won the battle against poverty, and achieved a comprehensive well-off.
In just over two years, the world has changed.
As President Xi Jinping emphasized at the United Nations Biodiversity Summit, the new crown pneumonia epidemic tells us that man and nature are a community with a shared future.
We must work together and act quickly to protect in development and develop in protection to build a beautiful home in harmony with all things.
On the afternoon of October 20th, General Secretary Xi Jinping listened to a report on the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve and observed the ecological environment of the Yellow River Delta wetland along the boardwalk.
He emphasized that on the new journey of achieving the second centenary goal, we must adhere to ecological priority and green development, carry forward the concept of ecological civilization, and enhance the socialist modernization drive.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the symposium was full of dialectics: "Accurately grasp the relationship between protection and development", "Coordinate development and security, improve risk prevention and response capabilities," "Grasp the overall and local relationships", and "Grasp the current situation." And long-term relationship"...
The symposium proposed to attach great importance to the complex and profound effects of global climate change, actively respond to it from a security perspective, comprehensively improve the level of disaster prevention and control, and protect the safety of people’s lives.
The impact of global climate change on the ecological environment and economic development must be taken into consideration in the ecological protection and high-quality development strategies of the Yellow River Basin.
Since late July, parts of the Yellow River Basin have suffered rare floods.
In the autumn, "La Niña" led to an earlier cold winter, and the northern hemisphere was faced with the pressure of peak coal power demand.
There is a lot of coal in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and Dongying has oil fields. Ecological security and energy security must be taken into consideration as a whole.
It is necessary to step up the adjustment of energy production structure and eliminate outdated production capacity with large carbon emissions, but also to ensure the stability of coal and power supply to ensure the economic and social operation.
Therefore, at this symposium, the general secretary emphasized that "the energy revolution must be promoted and the energy supply must be stabilized."
At the Shengli Oilfield Exploration and Development Research Institute, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into the shale oil laboratory and carbon dioxide gas flooding laboratory to listen to the oilfield’s insistence on independent innovation, speeding up technological research and application, and ensuring national energy security.
In this investigation, the general secretary emphasized that China, as a major manufacturing country, wants to develop the real economy, and the energy job must be in its own hands.
At the mouth of the Yellow River into the sea, General Secretary Xi Jinping pretended to have hundreds of millions of people up and down the river.
The "Outline of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development Plan" covers approximately 1.3 million square kilometers in 9 provinces and regions, with a population of approximately 160 million.
The provinces in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River are underdeveloped regions. Compared with the eastern region and the Yangtze River basin, there is a clear gap. The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries is lagging behind, and the endogenous power is insufficient. The difference in gross production value exceeds 10 times.
The "Outline of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development Plan" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council pointed out that due to the constraints of geographical conditions, the economic linkages of the provinces and regions along the Yellow River have historically been low, the awareness of regional division of labor and cooperation is not strong, and the efficient and coordinated development mechanism is not yet in place. Complete.
Ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin must strengthen coordination and cooperation across the entire river basin and become a strategic action to narrow the development gap between the North and the South.
On the afternoon of the 20th, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the mouth of the Yellow River and leaned on a railing to look into the distance.
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The Yellow River is torrential and turbulent.
Starting from the Bayan Har Mountain, the trickle converges into billowing waves, breaking through the barriers of Wanshan all the way, turbulent, turbulent, and persevering.
General Secretary Xi Jinping once said: "The reason why the river can break through the cliffs and seize the pass is because it has accumulated the great power of rushing for thousands of miles and returning to the river."
The Yellow River flows into the sea, where yellow and blue meet, making it extremely magnificent.
Big yellow river, blue sea, green development, this is a symphony of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.
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