Looking at China's High Quality Development | Moving towards "Green" and "Guizhou Scenery" with Infinite Good Green | Guizhou | China |
If you want to give Guizhou a color, green is undoubtedly the best answer. Surrounded by green belts and surrounded by forests; Here, mountains and cities blend together, and the city lies in the forest; Here, the blue sky and white clouds roam, and the green fields have no end. The people here are adjacent to green mountains and accompanied by green water, sharing the two major dividends of ecology and development.
The Jiaxiu Building section of Nanming River in Guiyang City boasts picturesque scenery with clear water and green banks
As one of the first national ecological civilization pilot zones and a leading area for ecological civilization construction, Guizhou has taken comprehensive measures, implemented comprehensive policies, and implemented multiple measures to ensure the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands. Significant achievements have been made in the protection of biodiversity in Fanjing Mountain and the iron fisted pollution control in the Wujiang River Basin, achieving a brilliant transformation of mountains becoming green, water becoming clear, and green becoming rich.
In Huaxi District, Guiyang City, children play by the clear and bottomless stream
Today in Guizhou, we are continuously improving the "green content" of high-quality development, deeply rooted in the concept that green mountains and clear waters are as valuable as gold and silver, and steadfastly pursuing a civilized development path of production development, prosperous life, and good ecology.
Taking "green" as a strategy
Playing a Chess Game for Ecological Restoration
Mountains and hills account for over 90% of Guizhou's land area. According to statistics, there are a total of 1.258 million mountains in Guizhou Province. From them, Guizhou is truly known as the "Mountain Park Province".
The Guizhou golden monkey, known as the "only child of the Earth," only inhabits the Fanjing Mountain, the main peak of the Wuling Mountains. In midsummer, monkeys freely shuttle through dense and tall trees, foraging and playing.
The cute Qian golden monkey is playing
Since the beginning of this year, Walnut Hill in Ziwei Town, Yinjiang Autonomous County, Tongren City, located at the western foot of Fanjing Mountain, has successively completed the planting of the last batch of ecological corridor trees. Planting greenery and adding new greenery will further expand the habitat of Guizhou golden monkeys for survival activities. The construction of this ecological corridor is also an important component of the integrated protection and restoration project of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and sands in the Wuling Mountains.
The three counties of Yinjiang, Songtao, and Jiangkou, where Fanjing Mountain is located, have all launched ecological corridor construction. "The living area of Guizhou golden monkeys is covered with tall trees, while the vegetation in our area is relatively single, which seriously restricts the activity space of Guizhou golden monkeys. Through the construction of ecological corridors, planting vegetation such as Wudang magnolia, poplar, and Sizhao flower for their habitat and prey will fundamentally optimize the forest structure and better protect the biodiversity of Fanjing Mountain." said Yu Jinhua, the technical director of ecological protection and restoration in Yinjiang County, Wuling Mountain.
The stunning scenery of Mount Fanjing is breathtaking
At present, Guizhou is actively exploring the Wuling Mountain model of "biodiversity+environmental protection", and various ecological restoration sub projects involved in the Wuling Mountain area are being orderly promoted. After the project implementation is completed, the regional forest coverage will increase to 63%, and the annual soil loss can be reduced by 300000 tons; The restoration rate of abandoned mines reaches 100%; The rate of moderate to severe rocky desertification control reached 15.49%; The quality of cultivated land has significantly improved, and significant progress has been made in biodiversity conservation.
With continuous efforts and long-term achievements, Guizhou has carried out a comprehensive plan for ecological restoration work throughout the province. The plan is to systematically implement the "Ten Major Ecological Restoration Projects" from 2021 to 2035, including the key projects of biodiversity protection in Wuling Mountain, ecological restoration of urban areas in central Guizhou, and national land improvement. Focusing on the four major tasks of restoring the ecological barrier of the plateau, ensuring the ecological corridor of the watershed, improving the ecological quality of urban areas, and maintaining biodiversity, a new pattern of ecological restoration in the province will be constructed.
Economy sees "green"
Sustainable benefits from low-carbon development
In 2009, the Guiyang Conference on Ecological Civilization made its debut and introduced the concept of "green economy" for the first time in China.
"The cost of traveling per kilometer is less than 30 cents, which is really energy-saving!" On June 30, last year, the world's first methanol hybrid sedan - Geely's 4th generation Emgrand alcohol electric hybrid sedan - was launched in Guiyang. After seeing it on site, Mr. Wang, a citizen, immediately decided to buy one. "Driving this car can save thousands of yuan in fuel costs every year, and it can also save energy and reduce emissions, making our city more and more beautiful!"
Guizhou Geely Automobile Assembly Workshop
As a clean energy vehicle, this model achieves a 40% energy-saving rate, with a low alcohol consumption of 9.2L per 100 kilometers. It can reduce carbon emissions by about 0.8 tons per 10000 kilometers, equivalent to adding 40 square meters of forest to the Earth.
In recent years, Guizhou has been at the forefront of green energy transformation and high-quality economic development, and is one of the earliest pilot areas for methanol vehicles in China. The provincial capital city of Guiyang has established a complete methanol production, methanol fuel allocation, methanol fuel infrastructure, methanol engine and methanol vehicle production and manufacturing, and a methanol ecological industrial chain for market application promotion, creating a unique "Guiyang model".
Geely Automobile Production Line located in Guanshanhu District, Guiyang City
As of now, Guizhou Province has promoted 17000 methanol vehicles through market-oriented means, and more than 60 methanol fuel filling stations have been put into operation in the province. The annual consumption of methanol is about 250000 tons, replacing about 150000 tons of gasoline. Guiyang ranks first in the world in terms of methanol taxi operation volume, and has the largest number of methanol vehicles and methanol fuel filling stations in the country. It has become the city with the most successful, largest scale, and widest coverage of methanol fuel and methanol vehicle marketization promotion in the world.
Geely New Energy is just a microcosm of Guizhou's exploration of green energy reform and development. In recent years, with the successive settlement of Ningde Times, BYD, Chery Wanda, and Jiuxing Energy, Guizhou is following the "carbon" road built by itself to promote green economic and social development and a low-carbon butterfly leap.
Blessing "Green"
Innovative legislation is "guaranteed"
The Wujiang River is the largest tributary on the south bank of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the largest river in Guizhou. Due to prominent water ecological environment problems, the Wujiang River was once referred to as the "polluted river" by some local people.
Wujiang Qing, Guizhou Xing! In recent years, Guizhou has launched a series of pollution control combination punches, implementing ecological civilization system reforms in the Chishui River and Wujiang River basins, implementing ecological compensation mechanisms in the Qingshui River, Hongfeng Lake, and Chishui River basins, and implementing the river chief system in seven major river basins throughout the province.
The picturesque scenery of Sanzhangshui Forest Park in the Jinsha section of the Wujiang River Basin
The governance of the Wujiang River is a typical case of Guizhou's iron fisted pollution control. As a national ecological civilization pilot zone, Guizhou has introduced a series of policies and regulations since 2014, transforming the assessment of ecological civilization construction from "soft constraints" to "hard bars". This includes taking the lead in establishing specialized judicial institutions for ecological environment protection at the provincial level across the country, which are supported by public, procuratorial, judicial, and administrative departments, to centrally manage and handle ecological environment protection cases throughout the province.
On March 1st of this year, the "Regulations on the Protection of the Wujiang River in Guizhou Province" officially began to be implemented, from clearly defining the responsibilities of various departments, enterprises, and local governments in the protection of the Wujiang River to clearly establishing an ecological protection compensation mechanism; From strengthening the management of ecological and environmental risks in the Wujiang River Basin in accordance with the law, to taking effective measures to implement emergency response... every effort is made to be genuine, effective, and executable, providing a strong and effective legal guarantee for promoting ecological protection in the Wujiang River Basin.
Qianxi City Wujiangyuan Baili Gallery Huawu Scenic Area
In the construction of ecological civilization, Guizhou firmly grasps the accountability system, puts a "tight spell" on environmental protection for leading cadres, "implants teeth" in ecological law enforcement, and integrates "ecological accountability" into the green mountains and clear waters.
Guiyang Aha Lake National Wetland Park
Only by laying a solid foundation for green development can we achieve high-quality development. In today's Guizhou, the mountains and rivers are vast, and the "Guizhou scenery" is infinitely beautiful. Looking at Guizhou's "high aesthetic value" through the construction of "ecological civilization", it not only has an inherent "natural green", but also a long-standing "protective color". On the new journey, colorful Guizhou is moving towards "green".
