Green development is at the leading level in the country and is one of the most prominent highlights of Xiamen City.
During his work in Xiamen, Comrade Xi Jinping attached great importance to the theory and practice of ecological civilization construction and put forward a series of requirements.
In recent years, Xiamen has always followed the concept of "mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand are a community of life", integratedly promoted various ecological protection and restoration projects, continuously built a large-scale protection and management pattern "from the top of the mountain to the ocean", and painted a picture based on Xi Jinping's ecological A magnificent picture of ecological protection and restoration of bay-shaped cities guided by civilized ideas.
As one of the highest and most remote administrative villages in Xiamen, Junying Village is now a well-known tea garden and tourist village. Every family grows mountain tea, and more than 70 B&Bs have been opened. The excellent ecology is becoming the villagers' " Money tree”.
Gao Quanwei
, Party branch secretary of Junying Village, Tong'an District, Xiamen City
:
Even our air can be sold for money. The carbon sinks produced by our tea gardens have been sold twice.
But in the 1980s, the forests around Junying Village were cleared, and ecological damage led to serious soil erosion, which was in sharp contrast to the level of special economic zone construction.
To this end, during his work in Fujian, Comrade Xi Jinping conducted two in-depth investigations into the military camp villages, went into the villagers' homes to understand their production and living conditions and income, and put forward the development idea of "wearing hats on the mountains and developing under the mountains" according to local conditions, that is, planting trees on the mountains to protect the ecology. , growing fruits and tea at the foot of the mountain to develop the economy.
Gao Quanguo, then director of the Junying Village Committee in Tong'an District, Xiamen City: In
1986, Comrade Xi Jinping went to Junying Village for his first investigation and asked very carefully. He suggested planting some seedless persimmons and contacted us with some seedless persimmon saplings. .
The awareness of protecting the ecological environment stems from a keen understanding of problems. At that time, Xiamen was experiencing rapid development, and environmental problems gradually emerged.
In the second year after taking office in Xiamen, Comrade Xi Jinping proposed and took the lead in organizing and compiling the "Xiamen Economic and Social Development Strategy from 1985 to 2000", which for the first time included ecological and environmental protection and construction as an important goal of the special zone development strategy.
Lu Lihua, Deputy Director of the Department of Land and Space Ecological Restoration of the Ministry of Natural Resources: The
Xiamen economic and social development strategy compiled by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his work in Xiamen is a rare economic and social development strategic plan in the country that spans 15 years. The special chapter on environmental protection proposes to protect and give full play to the advantages of "ecological niche", which is the first of its kind in the country.
With the determination of the development strategy, Xiamen has established a marine management office that specializes in solving hot and difficult issues in marine management. It has taken the lead in establishing a professional marine cleaning team in the country, strengthened sand and gravel soil management, and repaired exposed mountains. Green, a series of measures have effectively curbed the deterioration of the ecological environment.
In 2002, Xi Jinping, then governor of Fujian Province, visited Xiamen for research and creatively proposed the strategy of “enhancing the main island and cross-island development”, requiring “combination of highlighting urban characteristics and protecting the bay ecology.”
Since then, Xiamen's marine ecological restoration has begun to continuously expand, from land to ocean, from lakes to bays, and from river basins to the entire region.
Zhou Lumin, then deputy director of the Xiamen Municipal Ocean and Fisheries Bureau:
It was still an improvement of concepts. At the earliest, it should be said that it was pollution prevention and control, and then it focused more on the health of the marine ecosystem, providing us with high-quality Development lays an important ecological foundation.
In order to create ecological bays, Xiamen has carried out comprehensive renovation of five bay areas including Wuyuan Bay, Xinglin Bay, and Maluan Bay, allowing the artificially isolated sea areas to be reconnected and unblocked, and expanding space for the survival of Chinese white dolphins.
In order to reconstruct mangrove wetlands, Xiamen planted mangroves covering an area of 173.9 hectares.
In order to build a beautiful coastline, Xiamen has completed the restoration and renovation of 1.65 million square meters of coastal beaches. The successful experience of beach restoration has become a guide for beach restoration in my country.
Luo Ming, executive deputy director of the Asia Center for Nature-Based Solutions of the IUCN:
Xiamen, with the Bay Area as a unit, coordinated land and sea, and linkage of rivers and seas, provides China with solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss, and to achieve sustainable development. Schemes and wisdom.
Today, green development has penetrated into all aspects and the entire process of Xiamen's economic and social development. The gross marine product has maintained a growth of more than 10% year after year, and a total of 140,000 tons of marine carbon sinks have been completed, accounting for more than half of the national blue carbon trading market share.
Liu Qiong, deputy director of the Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection of the National Development and Reform Commission:
Xiamen’s marine economy, cultural tourism economy and other development results have been significantly enhanced.
Last year, the added value of high-tech manufacturing accounted for more than 40% of designated industries, 27 percentage points higher than the national level.
Energy consumption and water consumption per 10,000 yuan of regional GDP are among the leading levels in the country.
Today, Xiamen is continuing to focus on integrating various ecological protection and restoration projects, accelerating the construction of a large-scale protection and management pattern from the top of the mountain to the ocean, and continuously promoting the integration and symbiosis of "mountains, seas, industries, cities, and people".
Jia Wenlong, Vice President of the China Academy of Natural Resources Economics:
Xiamen carries out all-round, all-field, and all-factor ecological protection and restoration of land and space, which not only improves the ecosystem service function, but also optimizes the layout of land and space, explaining that clear waters and lush mountains are gold and silver. Mountains also prove that blue seas and silver beaches can also be mountains of gold and silver.