The mighty Yellow River plays a new era movement
The Yellow River is mighty, with a series of nine songs.
Originating from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it traverses 9 provinces, galloping thousands of miles, and moistening both sides of the strait.
The Yellow River, with a total length of 5,464 kilometers, is the mother river of the Chinese nation.
The Yellow River Basin plays a very important role in my country's economic and social development and ecological security.
"Work together to protect and promote great governance", "Let the Yellow River become a river of happiness that benefits the people", "Make unremitting efforts for the Yellow River to benefit the Chinese nation forever"... Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has traveled all over the Yellow River. The province has hosted two symposiums focusing on ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has raised the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin as a national strategy.
Protect while developing, develop while protecting.
The provinces along the Yellow River have comprehensively strengthened ecological environmental protection and strived to promote high-quality development. The "Yellow River chorus" of ecological priority and green development is becoming more and more moving.
Keeping the lifeline of improving the ecological environment
The blue waves are rippling, and the rivers flow endlessly.
In Hope Village, Garang Township, Guide County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, Li Baolin, the village-level river chief, goes to the banks of the Yellow River every day. Just solid."
The Yellow River meanders.
In Guide County, because of its low sediment content and clear river water, it has the reputation of "The Yellow River in the world is Guideqing".
However, due to problems such as random occupation, mining, and construction, the Mother River was once darkened.
Guide County has comprehensively carried out the special rectification action of "cleaning up the four chaos" in rivers and lakes, demolishing 54,200 square meters of illegal buildings, removing 4.6 kilometers of illegal embankments, and setting up 232 river and lake chiefs at county, township and village levels.
In recent years, Guide County has continued to explore the new model of "smart river patrol", using drones to patrol and carry out video surveillance of key river sections, helping rivers and lakes to take responsibility through technology, and improving the level of refinement of environmental management.
"We patrol the river during the day and monitor the 'night shift' at night," said Li Baolin.
The management of the Yellow River should focus on protection and governance.
The provinces along the Yellow River have made great efforts to carry out large-scale protection and governance, comprehensively strengthen ecological environmental protection, and maintain the lifeline of improving the ecological environment.
Continue to promote land greening, and the ecological environment has undergone great changes.
Lin County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, with the help of afforestation cooperatives, has carried out comprehensive ecological restoration management in Qikou and other towns along the Yellow River.
"In the past, we only used to shave food on the mountain. The more the mountain is swept, the more barren people are, and the people are getting poorer and poorer. Now everyone is planting trees on the mountain.
Improve the flood control and disaster reduction system to ensure the long-term stability of the Yellow River.
Henan has promoted the construction of Yellow River dykes, river regulation, floodplain management, and ecological corridor construction. The “13th Five-Year Plan” flood control project in the Henan section of the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the flood control project on the lower reaches of the Qin River have been fully completed, and the 501-kilometer standardized dykes on both sides of the river have been completed.
The farmland is returned to the wetland, the farm is returned to the beach, and the wetland has become a paradise for birds.
The shore of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Shandong Province, the original bare ground and saline-alkali beach have become the Damei wetland with lush water and grass, and the water quality of the Yellow River Estuary has been significantly improved and stabilized at Class II.
"The number of birds in the reserve has increased to 371, and more than 6 million birds pass through here every year," said Zhao Yajie, senior engineer of the reserve's management committee.
Monitoring data show that by the end of 2020, the area of soil and water loss that had completed preliminary treatment in the Yellow River Basin reached more than 250,000 square kilometers, and the area of soil and water loss had decreased by 48% compared with 1990.
Last year, the entire main stream of the Yellow River reached Class III water bodies. By this year, it has achieved continuous flow for 23 consecutive years, and the ecological environment of the basin has continued to improve significantly.
"The Yellow River is peaceful, and the world is peaceful."
Firmly follow the path of green and sustainable high-quality development
At the Xinyuan Coal Mine Dispatching Command Center of Lu'an Chemical Group, Shouyang County, Shanxi Province, with the click of a mouse, the staff can clearly see the gas concentration, temperature and humidity, and operation data on the big screen.
Intelligent transformation makes coal mining safer, more efficient, smarter and greener.
In recent years, Shanxi has continued to promote the intelligent construction of the coal industry.
At the same time, the number of high-tech enterprises in the province has increased from 290 in 2012 to 3,553 in 2021, and strategic emerging industries such as high-end equipment manufacturing and new materials have continued to grow.
The Yellow River Basin is an important energy base and agricultural and animal husbandry production base in the country.
Practice the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" along the Yellow Province, and firmly take the road of green and sustainable high-quality development.
Strengthen the conservation and intensive utilization of water resources in the whole basin.
Provinces have vigorously promoted water conservation in agriculture, industry and urban areas, and more than 400 counties in the basin have all reached the water-saving social evaluation standards.
Build a modern industrial system with characteristics and advantages.
A number of "specialized, refined, and new" enterprises with internationally leading independent technologies have emerged in Qinghai, and the photovoltaic and lithium battery industries have achieved cluster development. For every three lithium batteries produced in the country, one is from Xining.
The added value of Gansu's top ten ecological industries, including energy conservation and environmental protection, clean production, and clean energy, has accounted for 27% of the regional GDP.
Ningxia has formed a complete wind, photovoltaic and storage industry chain, and the production capacity of monocrystalline silicon rods accounts for about 1/5 of the world.
Henan has built a strategic emerging industry chain such as intelligent equipment. In the past 10 years, the average annual growth rate of the added value of the province's strategic emerging industries has reached 13.3%.
Build a new pattern of regional urban and rural development.
Ningxia has stepped up efforts to cultivate and expand leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization to drive the revitalization of rural industries.
Inner Mongolia strives to promote the industrialization and branding of agriculture and animal husbandry, and combine it with the development of cultural tourism and rural tourism to increase the income of farmers and herdsmen.
Shandong has explored characteristic development approaches such as collective unified management and asset revitalization operations. There are 245,000 farmers' professional cooperatives and 105,000 family farms.
"The level of water conservation and utilization has been steadily improved, the ecological environment of the basin has been continuously improved, the ability to cope with floods has been significantly enhanced, the level of energy supply and green development has continued to improve, and important progress has been made in the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin." National Development and Reform Cao Yuanmeng, deputy director of the Regional Department of the Commission, said.
Further safeguard and improve people's livelihood during development
"I have lived in the Yellow River beach area for most of my life, and now I live in a comfortable high-rise building," said Yu Jiayun, a resident of Xiaoxing Jiayuan, Xiaoli Street, Changqing District, Jinan, Shandong Province, who is nearly eighty years old.
Xiaoxing Homestead is the largest single-scale relocation project of the Yellow River floodplain in Shandong Province.
In recent years, Shandong Province has fully completed the task of relocating people in the floodplain by means of relocation and resettlement and construction of villages and platforms nearby.
Improving people's well-being is the fundamental purpose of development.
The provinces along the Yellow River have further guaranteed and improved people's livelihood in the process of development, and the people's sense of gain, happiness and security have been significantly enhanced.
In Gansu, people's livelihood expenditure accounts for about 80% of fiscal expenditure every year. The growth rate of urban and rural residents' income has been higher than the economic growth rate year after year. Employment, education, medical care, social security and other undertakings have made great progress, and elderly care service facilities cover 95% of the cities. In communities and 55% of administrative villages, the coverage rate of inclusive kindergartens reaches 92.9%.
In Shaanxi, apple planting is "on-line" to help rural revitalization.
"The income from planting apples has come up, which is much better than going out to work." Zhang Chunde, a farmer in Wanzhuang Village, Hezhuangping Town, Baota District, Yan'an, has a big pocket, and his annual income has increased to more than 100,000 yuan.
In Shanxi, a strong and effective social assistance system has been gradually built, and a solid net for basic people's livelihood has been woven.
The province has built nearly 7,000 day care centers for the elderly in rural areas, benefiting more than 400,000 elderly people in rural areas.
In Shandong, from the development of the service industry to industrial upgrading, from tax reduction and fee reduction to skill improvement, policies have been implemented one by one to open up employment opportunities.
Over the past 10 years, the province's urban new employment has remained at more than 1.1 million.
On Huayuan North Road, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, early in the morning, the Yellow River Museum welcomed a group of tourists.
"It is not only necessary to show the long history of the Yellow River, but also to excavate and tell the value of the times contained in the exhibits. I hope more people can understand and protect the Mother River." said Zhang Xiaolei, an instructor of the Yellow River Museum.
Tell the story of the Yellow River well and inherit the culture of the Yellow River.
In recent years, Henan has carried out a survey of provincial-level intangible cultural heritage projects in the Yellow River Basin, initially established a large database of Yellow River cultural heritage resources, and accelerated the construction of Yellow River National Cultural Park projects such as the Yinxu Site Museum and the Han and Wei Luoyang City Site Museum.
The rivers are galloping and full of life.
"Let the Yellow River become a river of happiness for the benefit of the people", playing a surging movement in the new era.
(For related reports, see the fifth edition)
Our reporter Kou Jiangze Liu Wenxin Liu Yurui