Xinhua News Agency, Hohhot, May 26th: My home in the beautiful grassland - Inner Mongolia along the footsteps of the general secretary

  Xinhua News Agency reporters Yu Changhong, Zhang Lina, Wei Jingyu

  In the early morning, when the first ray of sunshine hit the Daxing'an Mountains in the easternmost part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Ejina Populus euphratica forest in the westernmost part was still asleep.

The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, whose border stretches for more than 4,200 kilometers, watches over the northern border of the motherland like a galloping horse.

  General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been deeply concerned about this beautiful and vast land.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the general secretary has visited Inner Mongolia twice, and participated in the deliberation of the Inner Mongolia delegation of the National People's Congress for five consecutive years, drawing a blueprint and clear path for the development of Inner Mongolia.

The cadres and masses of all ethnic groups in Inner Mongolia implemented the general secretary's entrustment, forged ahead, worked hard, and various undertakings were flourishing.

Hold together like pomegranate seeds

  In the cold winter of 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping braved the severe cold to come to the herdsmen in Xilinhot to watch horse races, listen to long tunes, and enjoy singing and dancing with everyone.

In the traditional "Five Animals Praying for Blessing" ceremony, he dipped his ring finger in fresh milk and flicked it three times, wishing good weather, prosperity of the five animals, and happiness and well-being of the people in the coming year.

The herdsman Bayas Guleng often recalled that scene and felt particularly warm: "The general secretary is heart-to-heart with our people of all ethnic groups."

  Time goes by, love remains unchanged.

  Five years later, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again visited Inner Mongolia.

On July 15, 2019, in Linhuangjiayuan Community, Xing'an Street, Songshan District, Chifeng City, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the display of ethnic costumes and supplies, and watched community residents perform ethnic songs and dances.

This community has more than 10,000 residents, including nearly 4,000 residents of 12 ethnic minorities such as Mongolian, Manchu, and Hui.

  "The general secretary is very concerned about the community's grassroots party building, ethnic unity and integration, etc., emphasizing that the community is the common home of the people of all ethnic groups, and the ethnic unity is a family." General Secretary Xi Jinping entrusted Wu Xiaohua, secretary of the Linhuangjiajia Community Party Committee, to build people of all ethnic groups to watch and help each other. The confidence and determination of the extended community is stronger.

  Based on the actual development conditions and historical development context of Inner Mongolia, after in-depth research and thinking, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward clear strategic guidelines for Inner Mongolia:

  ——“For Inner Mongolia, to maintain social harmony and stability, we must consolidate and develop the overall situation of national unity”;

  ——"Tightly grasp the main line of casting a sense of community of the Chinese nation";

  ——“Promote all ethnic groups to stick together like pomegranate seeds in the big family of the Chinese nation, and jointly build a great motherland and jointly create a better life.”

  Read here, there will be echoes.

In recent years, Inner Mongolia has adhered to and improved the system of regional ethnic autonomy and governed ethnic affairs in accordance with the law.

In May 2021, Inner Mongolia formulated and implemented a development plan for national unity and progress, and for the first time promulgated the "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Regulations on Promoting National Unity and Progress".

The whole region has realized that the national unified textbook "should be pushed out", and all ethnic kindergartens use the national common language for childcare education, which effectively promotes the construction of a shared spiritual home for the Chinese nation.

  "Inner Mongolia has always been at the forefront of national unity and progress." As a "red literary light cavalry" on the grasslands, Zana, the captain of the Ulan Mu cavalry of Sunite Right Banner, is the communicator and communicator of the stories of ethnic exchanges, exchanges and blending in this land. Witness, he said proudly, "Follow the path guided by the general secretary, and the flower of national unity will only bloom more and more."

Protect the ecological environment like protecting your eyes

  "My home is a beautiful grassland, and the wind blows green grass everywhere." The ecological status of Inner Mongolia is not only related to the survival and development of people of all ethnic groups in the region, but also to the ecological security of North China, Northeast China, Northwest China and even the whole country.

This is a major event that General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about.

  Chai Shuling, deputy director of Ma'anshan Forest Farm in Haraqin Banner, Chifeng City, often thinks of the midsummer afternoon in 2019.

  "The general secretary came to check the growth of the trees under the sun, and also asked about the work and living conditions of our forest rangers." Chai Shuling said that the general secretary urged to keep the greenery here. In the past three years, we have accumulated more than 6,500 mu of forest. .

  Inner Mongolia is the largest and most complete ecological functional area in northern my country, with forests, grasslands, wetlands, lakes, deserts, Gobi and other natural landscapes.

  Since 2013, the protection and governance of Hulun Lake and the environmental pollution problem in the Alxa League Tengger Industrial Park have affected General Secretary Xi Jinping's heart.

He has repeatedly issued important instructions and instructions, requiring serious rectification and strengthening of ecological environment governance and protection.

  In the game between pollution and governance, problems and opportunities coexist.

At the historical juncture of "advance will lead to complete victory, no advance will lead to retreat", how should the construction of ecological civilization in Inner Mongolia proceed?

  When inspecting Inner Mongolia in 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out: "There are two main ways out. One is to continue to organize and implement major ecological restoration projects, to improve the management of Beijing-Tianjin sandstorm sources, the construction of the three-north shelter forest system, and to return farmland to forests and grazing. The construction of key projects such as returning grass; one is to actively explore and speed up the construction of an ecological civilization system.”

  Find the right path, and the construction of ecological civilization in Inner Mongolia will enter the fast lane.

Overall consideration shall be given to the positioning of the main functional areas and the resource and environmental endowments of each league city, rationally optimize and adjust the ecological protection red line, and classify more than half of the region's land area into the ecological protection red line.

After continuous protection, the forest coverage rate and grassland comprehensive vegetation coverage in Inner Mongolia have reached 23% and 45% respectively, and the area of ​​desertified and sandy land has been "double reduced".

  "Whether the environment is good or not, migratory birds know first. Now about 6 million birds migrate through Wuliangsuhai or breed here every year." Bao Wei, deputy director of the Wuliangsuhai Ecological Protection Center in Bayannaoer City, said that the ecological governance of Wuliangsuhai is controlled by " From "governing lakes" to "governing river basins", the ecological environment has been significantly improved.

Go ahead like a Mongolian horse

  The vast northern Xinjiang, covering more than 1.18 million square kilometers, is today a hot spot for more than 24 million compatriots of all ethnic groups in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to fight side by side.

In the mind of General Secretary Xi Jinping, this land should not only maintain a beautiful ecology, but also build a happy home.

  In May, the snow in Aershan City, in the hinterland of the Daxinganling Forest Area, had not melted. Sitting in a warm relocated building, Guo Yongcai, a shantytown resident, no longer worried that he would wake up at night.

"The general secretary is concerned about the housing issues of the common people. Now we bid farewell to the 'slab and mud' house and want to invite him to his new home."

  In the middle of winter in 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the home of Guo Yongcai, a forestry worker in difficulty, to touch the fire wall, look at the New Year's goods, and sit on the kang head.

Seeing the difficulty in housing for the masses, he urged local cadres to speed up the renovation of shanty towns and set a timetable so that the masses could live in new houses as soon as possible.

In the past 8 years, Arshan City has renovated 10,400 shantytown houses, and all the shantytown residents have "leaved the shanty and entered the building".

  General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the improvement of the lives of ethnic minorities.

He used to live in a yurt with the Majige family, a herdsman from the Xilingol League.

During the chat, Mr. Majige reported that some local herdsmen still have some difficulties in using electricity and traffic. General Secretary Xi Jinping asked the local party committee and government to make plans and work hard to solve them.

Maggie's son, Gunsuglas, said that now the electricity is on and the road has been repaired to the door.

  For five consecutive years, the National Two Sessions participated in the deliberations of the Inner Mongolia delegation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the direction for Inner Mongolia to get rid of poverty and become prosperous with the axis of "poverty alleviation-consolidation-connection-revitalization"; , to find out the positioning of Inner Mongolia in building a new development pattern across the country.

  ——“Build Inner Mongolia into an important ecological security barrier in northern my country and a security and stability barrier in northern Xinjiang of the motherland”;

  ——“Constructing an important national energy and strategic resource base, and a production base for agricultural and livestock products”;

  ——"Building an important bridgehead for my country's opening to the north".

  "To make the landscape of the northern frontier of the motherland more beautiful." General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward a clear overall development goal for Inner Mongolia, which has become the common aspiration of the children of the grasslands and the source of development momentum.

  Bearing in mind the general secretary's entrustment, Inner Mongolia does not wait for the whiplash.

By 2021, grain production will be "eighteen consecutively prosperous", animal husbandry production will be "seventeen consecutively stable", the total profit of industrial enterprises above designated size in the region will exceed 300 billion yuan, and the regional GDP will exceed 2 trillion yuan. Dependence on sheep, coal, soil and gas", the added value of non-coal industries accounts for more than 60% of the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size. The energy supply system realizes the transformation from a fossil energy region to a clean energy region.

  "We should be like Mongolian horses when starting a business, with a hard-working and indomitable spirit." General Secretary Xi Jinping used a vivid metaphor to encourage cadres and masses of all ethnic groups in Inner Mongolia.

In the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, the sons and daughters of all ethnic groups in Inner Mongolia are watching and helping each other, and they are hard-working and hard-working like Mongolian horses.