CCTV news (news broadcast): Ecological protection compensation is an important part of the ecological civilization system. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to improve the inter-regional interest compensation mechanism to form a benign situation in which beneficiaries pay and protectors receive reasonable compensation.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the promotion of ecological protection compensation has been accelerated, and an ecological protection compensation system in line with my country's national conditions has been initially established to promote the construction of a beautiful China.
Xin'an River originates from Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province and flows into Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang Province.
As an important ecological barrier in the Yangtze River Delta, there is an automatic water quality monitoring station every 6 kilometers on the 242-kilometer stretch of the Xin'an River.
From the previous regular monitoring to today's real-time monitoring and even early warning and forecasting, Xin'an River is making ecological protection from passive to more active.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has made unprecedented efforts to build ecological civilization. The top-level design was made to promote the ecological compensation mechanism.
At the same time, from the new environmental protection law to the new water pollution prevention and control law, to the Yangtze River protection law, the legal basis for ecological protection compensation has become more and more clear.
In the past ten years, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces have carried out three rounds of ecological compensation pilots for the water environment in the Xin'an River Basin, which is also the first cross-provincial horizontal ecological compensation pilot in the country.
According to the agreement, if the water quality does not meet the standard, Anhui compensates Zhejiang, and if the water quality meets the standard, Zhejiang compensates Anhui.
In the past ten years, Anhui has not only won 5.7 billion yuan in compensation for its commitment to achieving water quality standards every year, but is also accelerating the transition from "lucid waters and lush mountains" to "invaluable assets".
Not only the Xin'an River, but in the past ten years, 13 inter-provincial river basin ecological protection compensation mechanisms have been established across the country, an implementation plan for the establishment of a horizontal compensation mechanism for the entire Yangtze River and Yellow River basins has been issued, and ecological protection compensation mechanisms in the Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake and Taihu Lake basins have been formulated. guidance.
The horizontal ecological compensation across river basins is closely woven, and the ecological protection compensation mechanism in the vertical key areas is also being refined.
In 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to improve the vertical ecological compensation mechanism and increase the transfer payment to forests, grasslands, wetlands and key ecological function areas.
Over the past ten years, my country's ecological compensation has basically covered key ecological function areas and key areas such as watersheds, atmosphere, forests, grasslands, and oceans, established a forest ecological protection compensation system, continued to implement grassland ecological protection compensation awards, and established key ecological function areas. The transfer payment, the implementation of wetland ecological benefit compensation, and the establishment of the ecological protection compensation mechanism with the largest number of beneficiaries, the widest coverage and the largest investment in the world.
"People live up to the green hills, and the green hills will live up to people." Not only ecological compensation, but in the past ten years, the ecological civilization system and mechanism have been continuously improved, and dozens of reform plans have been implemented one after another.
Major reform measures such as the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectorate have been successively introduced, the red line system for ecological protection has been established, and the construction of a national ecological civilization pilot zone has been carried out.
This decade has been the decade with the deepest understanding, the greatest efforts, the most practical measures, the fastest progress and the best results in my country's ecological civilization construction and ecological environmental protection.
More than 25% of the country's land area is designated as the red line for ecological protection, and a system of nature reserves with national parks as the main body has been established. The national key protected wild animal and plant populations provide effective protection.
The national forest coverage rate increased to 24.02%, the forest volume reached 194.93 trillion cubic meters, and the comprehensive vegetation coverage of grassland reached 50.32%.
Green is increasingly becoming a bright background for the high-quality development of China's economy and society.