Dam, Bridge, Yellow Crane Tower

This is Hubei

Three Gorges, finless porpoise, south-to-north water diversion

This is also Hubei

The province of thousands of lakes, the land of fish and rice, the thoroughfare of nine provinces

This is Hubei

  Hubei already has too many labels and has received too much praise, but few people ask, what is the real Hubei?

How important is a floating Hubei to a developing China?

  To explore this question, first let us go to a high altitude thousands of kilometers away and look at Hubei.

Hubei, located in the geographic center of China, is surrounded by mountains on three sides. The green mountains of the Dabie Mountains, Qinba Mountains, Wuling Mountains and Mufu Mountains have become important water conservation areas in the Yangtze River Basin and important ecological barriers in Hubei.

The three main water systems of the Yangtze River, Han River, and Qing River connect 1,194 rivers, large and small, and connect nearly a thousand Jianghan lakes and lakes and wetlands in the whole province, forming the province of thousands of lakes and the backbone and veins of the land of Jingchu.

Hubei has become the most "river and lake" place in China. Naturally, water has become the biggest feature of Hubei.

"Jingchu Anlan"

  To control Jingchu, we must first control the water, and realizing "Jingchu Anlan" has been the dream of the Chinese people for thousands of years.

  Thousands of miles along the Yangtze River, the danger lies in Jingjiang.

In the meandering Lower Jingjiang section, the river turns 16 big bends here, and the "nine bends of the ileum" plus sediment deposition form a "hanging river above the ground". The special geographical location and climate determine Hubei as a "flood corridor". "The "water storage bag" must withstand the fact that the upstream flood is large, the annual flood is long, and flood disasters occur frequently.

Until an unprecedented super project spanning both sides of the Yangtze River, it turned the tide and helped China calm down the millennium flood of the Yangtze River, so that Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other regions in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River had a stable social development environment.

  The water of the rushing river leaves the Three Gorges, flows meanderingly, gets rid of the shackles of the mountains, and deposits the history and silt along the way surrounded by the mountains. Rather, "the land of Chu is vast and boundless, boundless and endless", which created the largest plain in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River - the Jianghan Plain.

  An old saying goes: Huguang is ripe, and the world is full.

The Jianghan Plain has been an important production base of grain, cotton and oil in China since ancient times. This is the most important strategic resource of the country.

"Whether the Chinese bowl can be filled with Chinese food", Hubei, as a land of fish and rice, has a very important grain output.

  The rivers and lakes are the rivers and lakes of Hubei, and they are also the rivers and lakes of China.

  Hubei's responsibility is not only to send a river of clean water to the east, but also to send a reservoir of clean water to the north.

  In the north-south direction of China, there is a blue line of clear water that runs through the hinterland of the Central Plains of my country.

The sound of its purring water sings all the way, flowing from the valleys in the south of our country all the way to the capital, benefiting more than 85 million people along the route, and delivering 9.5 billion cubic meters of water every year.

Its starting point is in Hubei - "Asian Tianchi" Danjiangkou Reservoir, which is currently the largest source of drinking water in my country, and the water storage capacity of the reservoir is 500 times that of the Ming Tombs Reservoir in Beijing.

As early as the 20th century, it has become an important strategic content of our country. It is not as simple as a piece of infrastructure. It is a great test of the safety of Hubei's water environment, and it is also a super high requirement for Hubei's dedication and feelings of rivers and lakes.

For the people in the north, the rivers and lakes are not far away, just in Hubei.

  Is a Hubei with beautiful mountains and clear waters, surging green seas, and a more secure bottom line the Hubei that China needs today?

  Yes, but not all.

Prosper because of the river

  Where there are rivers and lakes, there are people living there, and where there are people, there are "rivers and lakes".

  The three major basins of the Yangtze River, Han River, and Qing River connect 17 cities in Hubei in series. The city is on the river, the lake is in the center of the city, the sun and the moon are flowing, and the river tide is rushing in Hubei. The city is determined by water, and the land is determined by water. Prospered by water.

  Suizhou, Ezhou, the hometown of Emperor Yan, the soul of Chu remains - this is the rivers and lakes of Chu people;

  "Iron-struck Xiangyang" "Wusang Wudang" - this is the arena of "martial arts";

  Jingzhou, Chibi, mottled city walls, wisdom of strategy - this is the arena of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms;

  Wuhan and Yichang, the hub and throat of "the world", gathering places of merchants from all over the world - this is a bustling river and lake.

  There are also well-known poets such as Li Bai, Wang Wei, and Su Dongpo. The chapters they left here allow us, who will be thousands of years later, to still be able to pass through many years, in every corner of this province. Stories meet unexpectedly.

  Not only literati and poets, people and goods from all corners of the country arrived in Hubei via water, land, and air, and finally in Hubei, they constituted the thoroughfare of China's Tianyuan and nine provinces, radiating more than half of China's social network.

  From the perspective of waterways, Hubei is located in the center of the Yangtze River artery. It goes to Bashu in the west, goes to Wuyue in the east, traces the Hanshui River in the north to Henan and Shaanxi, passes through Dongting and Hunan to Hunan and Guangxi, and goes directly to Wuhan by 10,000-ton seagoing ships. .

  From a land perspective, three major railway arteries (Jingguang, Jingjiu, Jiaoliu) pass through Hubei, and the Yangtze River, which separates the north from the south, also becomes a thoroughfare here.

There are also a number of major expressways from Beijing, Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Fuyin to the whole area, running north and south, and the motherland interchange.

  Needless to say, in terms of air transportation, Wuhan Tianhe Airport is the largest professional cargo airport in Asia and the fourth in the world - Ezhou Huahu Airport, a dual hub for passenger and cargo, directly connected to five continents, and Hubei has become an inland "air outlet".

It can be said that from south to north, from east to west, Hubei is an existence that cannot be ignored.

  What flows is not only traffic, but also talents and industries.

Thousands of talents from all corners of the country have gathered in Jingchu, and the number of students in higher education in Hubei has exceeded 1.5 million. The flow of talents has basically established a high-quality education system in Hubei.

"Only Chu has talents, and it is prosperous here", so that Hubei, a province with thousands of lakes and the thoroughfare of nine provinces, has the confidence to gather people with water, develop business with water, and lead scientific and technological innovation with the support of talents.

Optical fibers, lasers, semiconductor chips, smart terminals, artificial intelligence, and information networks have become emerging business cards for innovative Hubei's new generation of information technology trillion pillar industries.

  In the past five years, Hubei has shouldered heavy responsibilities and forged ahead with gratitude, and its economic aggregate has stepped up two steps in a row.

Accelerating the construction of a national pioneer zone for building a new development pattern has to be attributed to its stable environment of "Jingchu Anlan" to a certain extent, and its integration and tolerance of traveling from south to north, connecting east and west.

  If the flow of rivers and lakes has created the body and meridians of Hubei, then the sweat of the people passing by has created the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, and inspired the spirit of the mountains and forests.

At this moment, we may try to answer the question posed at the beginning.

  How does Hubei, which is on the move, rely on to surge China?

Relying on the security background of green mountains and green waters

Relying on the innovative passion of hitting the water with the middle current

Rely on the Jingchu culture that is as good as water

Relying on the human fireworks that flow like water

  In the flowing Hubei, the struggle is ordinary but great, the stories are romantic and passionate, a drop of water can intoxicate life, and a group of people can create the "river and lake" of this era.

  The rivers and lakes are not far away, just in Hubei.

  Producer: Guo Xiaorong

  Editor: Kang Yaofang, Deng Guohui, Guo Mingchen

  Produced by: Good-looking Studio of Hubei Radio and Television Financial Media News Center