After a drizzle, I looked at the Chenglingji Hydrological Station in Yueyang City, Hunan Province, but I saw that the water surface was vast and boundless, and the meadows on both sides of the river were green and all things flourished.

　　Chen Jianxiang, a cadre of the Hydrology Bureau of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission, the Hydrology and Water Resources Survey Bureau of the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, was very emotional: "The water quality here is getting better and better, and the scene of 'Haohao Tangtang, boundless and boundless' written in "Yueyang Tower" is reappearing."

　　Chenglingji Hydrological Station is located in Qili Mountain, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, at the exit where Dongting Lake joins the Yangtze River.

This hydrological station, which was initially established in 1904, not only provided important support for the flood control of the Yangtze River, but also monitored the total outflow water, sand volume and water quality of the Dongting Lake.

　　On the afternoon of April 25, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping came here for inspection.

At the Chenglingji Hydrological Station, Chen Jianxiang reported to General Secretary Xi Jinping on the comprehensive monitoring and management of water resources in the Hunan section of the Yangtze River and the Dongting Lake Basin.

　　Chen Jianxiang clearly remembered that General Secretary Xi Jinping listened very carefully, during which he also asked about the location of the station built in the Qing Dynasty, the year when the historical extreme occurred, the trace line of the highest flood level in 1998 and the location of the flood crossing in 2017.

　　"General Secretary Xi Jinping asked his entourage carefully whether the funds for the Dongting Lake treatment project were in place, and whether the common people enjoyed benefits. The general secretary asked me very carefully, and my heart was warm, and I deeply felt the general secretary's concern for the ecological environment of Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River. attention and concern." Chen Jianxiang said.

　　Afterwards, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked to the promenade outside the Chenglingji Water Level Self-reporting Station, carefully observed Dongting Lake, the Yangtze River and the green reeds with binoculars, and also asked the entourage about water conservancy, navigation, ecological protection, etc. Case.

　　Before leaving Chenglingji Hydrological Station, on the steps leading to the viaduct, General Secretary Xi Jinping stopped and turned around.

　　The next day, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the second symposium on the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Wuhan.

　　"I have said that 'the Yangtze River is sick', and the disease is not too light. To cure the 'Yangtze River disease', we must scientifically apply the holistic view of traditional Chinese medicine, trace the source, diagnose the cause, identify the root cause, classify the policy, and treat it systematically."

　　Since ancient times, civilization has thrived on water.

The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers nurture the Chinese nation, nurture the Chinese civilization, and continue the spiritual blood of the country and the nation.

Over the years, the development of one river and one river has been haunting General Secretary Xi Jinping's mind.

　　After working in Chenglingji for more than 30 years, Chen Jianxiang, an old water scholar, has witnessed the changes here.

He told reporters that in the waters near Chenglingji, there used to be many sand-mining and sand-carrying ships docked in disorder, and there were many sand-gravel piers and sand-gravel dumps on the nearby Yangtze River coastline, which polluted the water quality, encroached on wetlands, and damaged the coastline. surroundings.

In recent years, the sewage outfalls in the Hunan section of the Yangtze River have been gradually renovated, all sand mining ships have been docked at designated points, and the hazardous chemical docks and illegal docks have been forcibly removed.

　　"Keeping in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's entrustment of 'protecting a river and clear water', the ecological environment of the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake is getting better and better, and people's lives will be better." Chen Jianxiang said.

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