China News Service, Beijing, March 9th (Reporter Wu Pengquan) "Promote the realization of the value of wetland resources", "Develop and expand ecological industries that enrich the people", "Promote the construction of a unified ecological and environmental market"... During the National Two Sessions, many representatives and committee members focused on the Yangtze River economy Lead high-quality development and provide suggestions on how to "activate" ecological advantages.
The Yangtze River Economic Belt runs from east to west, connects north and south, and connects rivers and seas. It is an important growth pole for China's economic development.
Promoting high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt fundamentally depends on the high-quality ecological environment of the Yangtze River Basin.
"The wetland area of the Yangtze River Economic Zone accounts for 21.5% of the total wetland area in the country, but the population and GDP exceed 40% of the country." Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Director of the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Overseas Chinese and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Jiangxi Provincial Committee for Democratic National Construction Vice Chairman Zhao Bo said that high-intensity resource development and utilization have degraded the ecological functions of wetlands and reduced biodiversity in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, hindering the "two-way rush" of high-level protection and high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Zhao Bo suggested building a cloud platform for wetland linkage management and protection in the Yangtze River Economic Belt to improve the digital governance level of wetland management and value realization.
As one of the "double kidneys" of the Yangtze River, Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake located in the northern part of Jiangxi Province, is a wetland of international importance.
Lu Shaojun, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Standing Committee of the Taiwan League Central Committee, chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee, and deputy director of the Education, Science, Culture and Health Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress, noted that there are still a small number of illegal activities that damage the ecological environment in the areas around Poyang Lake, and the ecological compensation mechanism is not perfect. The contradiction between production and protection is prominent.
In addition to severely cracking down on illegal activities that damage wetlands, Lu Shaojun said that wetland eco-friendly industries such as ecological farming, eco-tourism, and natural science education should be developed in an orderly manner, and a wetland ecological product certification system should be established to promote the value increase of wetland ecological products.
Zhao Bo also believes that moderate development of wetland ecotourism complexes can promote a virtuous cycle of wetland protection and development; opening up trading channels for wetland restoration and wetland occupation and compensation balance indicators can promote the value transformation of wetland carbon sink products.
On April 7, 2023, aerial photography was taken of the Jiujiang City section of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park.
Photo by Liu Jia
How to transform ecological advantages into economic advantages and transform ecological products into resources that enrich the people?
This is an issue that needs to be faced directly for the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and it is also a hotly discussed topic among representatives and committee members.
According to Shi Ke, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy governor of Jiangxi Province, member of the Central Standing Committee of the Peasants' and Workers' Party, and chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee, the economic development levels of the nine provinces and two cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt are quite different, and different regional functional divisions and development tasks have different goals. , there are large differences between the current trading systems in various districts, and there are still obvious institutional obstacles to cross-regional transactions of environmental rights and interests.
In this regard, Shi Ke suggested accelerating the construction of a unified market for the ecological environment of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, building a multi-level and diversified regional coordination mechanism for the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and strengthening regional collaboration and inter-regional connections within the belt.
He also said that it is necessary to give full play to the role of the market price mechanism in the transfer and allocation of property rights, accelerate the removal of various institutional obstacles that restrict the free flow and optimal allocation of natural resource property rights; explore diversified ecological compensation methods such as off-site development and cooperative co-construction, and gradually Improve the ecological environment compensation mechanism for the entire Yangtze River basin.
As the longest and most ecologically valuable river in China, the Yangtze River has nurtured generations of Chinese people.
Since the implementation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt strategy, the concept of "joint efforts to protect and avoid large-scale development" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Jiujiang is an important node city in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the only port city along the Yangtze River in Jiangxi. It has a unique coastline of 152 kilometers in the Jiangxi section of the Yangtze River.
Jiang Wending, deputy to the National People's Congress and mayor of Jiujiang City, said in an interview with the media that the local government will resolutely implement "joint efforts to protect and avoid large-scale development", build a solid ecological barrier in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and accelerate the pace of industrial green transformation and upgrading.
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