The "Multiplier Effect" of Stimulating New Energy Growth (Linking Commentator: Promoting High Quality Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt ①) Economic and Social | Development | Linking
Starting today, this edition will launch a series of comments, connecting commentators from party newspapers in provinces and cities along the Yangtze River, summarizing the achievements and inspirations of high-quality development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
——Editor
Dialogue person:
Li Zheng, commentator of this newspaper
Xiao Qing, commentator of Hubei Daily
Li Zheng: When it comes to the changes in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, people are fond of talking about a scene: "Smiling Elves" Yangtze River finless porpoises playing in the waves, the "Linjiang Rust Belt" where the chemical industry once gathered has transformed into the "Binjiang Green Belt" where people can freely travel today. Looking back, the Yangtze River coast used to be a gathering area for China's chemical industry, with a complete chemical industry chain, multiple employment opportunities, and high tax payments. However, pollution was severe, and there was strong public feedback. How can Hubei gather consensus and overcome difficulties in addressing the various interests and obstacles involved in the governance of the "chemical encirclement of the river"?
Xiao Qing: To break through the "chemical encirclement of the river", we need to break free from the mindset of "pollution before treatment, destruction before repair", and take action to follow the old path of "sacrificing the environment for economic growth". Taking Tiantian Chemical, the first chemical enterprise in Yichang to undergo "closure, renovation, and relocation", as an example, with over 300 production units, a total valuation of nearly 200 million yuan, an average annual profit and tax of nearly 30 million yuan, and many other issues related to employee resettlement, the thoughts are difficult to understand; Resolving issues such as employee placement requires a financial investment of 300 million yuan, which puts immense financial pressure. Solving problems and guiding thinking play a crucial role.As green development becomes the baton, a series of policies to mobilize the enthusiasm of enterprises are gradually being introduced. After the first enterprise moved to a new industrial park, its comprehensive benefits improved, forming a demonstration effect. As of now, chemical enterprises within 1 kilometer of the Yangtze River in Hubei Province have achieved "zero clearance", and more than 440 chemical enterprises along the river have completed "customs clearance, renovation, and relocation". The "progress bar" is constantly being refreshed.
Li Zheng: This provides a vivid interpretation of "thought is the precursor of action". The "house" that the chemical plant moved away from the riverbank was exchanged for a "gain" of a clear river and green mountains on both sides; The settlement of a chemical plant in a new industrial park is not simply a physical migration, but a chemical reaction of production and operation transformation and upgrading. The extensive development of the old path has led to the "retreat" of the new path of green development. This process reflects the dialectics of choosing between advance and retreat, and also highlights the practical power of new ideas leading new development.
Taking into account all aspects, we will strengthen all links from water to land, from downstream to upstream, and from main streams to tributaries, and promote fishing bans, shore management, greenery enhancement, and active water management in an integrated manner; Launch the Ten Iconic Campaigns for the Protection of the Yangtze River and Implement the Ten Strategic Measures for Green Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Nowadays, the ecological restoration of the Hubei section of the Yangtze River has achieved significant results, and the beautiful picture of "the finless porpoise and the Yellow Crane Tower in the same frame" has been captured by tourists multiple times.
Li Zheng: The continuous optimization of the ecological environment in the Hubei section of the Yangtze River has created conditions for the development of green economy and ecological economy. Practice has proven that ecological protection and economic development are dialectically unified and can achieve mutual support and mutual benefit. Economic development cannot focus solely on resources and ecological environment, and ecological environment protection is not about abandoning economic development and seeking fish for the sake of trees. Adhering to the principle of protecting while developing and developing while protecting, the key is to find an effective path to transform "green mountains and clear waters" into "golden mountains and silver mountains".
Xiao Qing: There is a case that left a deep impression on me. Daijiahu, located on Jianshe 10th Road in Qingshan District, Wuhan City, is only a few kilometers away from the Yangtze River. It was once planned as a production site for the Qingshan Thermal Power Plant, but it has become a container for dumping fly ash, transforming from a lake of clear water to a pool of coal ash, a black mountain, and a pile of garbage. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Wuhan has overcome difficulties, promoted the removal of fly ash, ecological restoration, restoration of water bodies, and landscape renovation, giving birth to Daijia Lake. As the first urban comprehensive park built on the site of industrial waste in Wuhan, it has become the largest single "green lung" in Wuhan along with the neighboring Qingshan Park, and has won the "China Habitat Environment Example Award" and become a popular check-in spot.
Li Zheng: It can be seen that green transformation has ecological, economic, and social benefits. The government, enterprises, and the public have all tasted the sweetness of green development, which naturally stimulates the endogenous driving force to promote green transformation. From a dialectical perspective, achieving high-level protection can not only bring new economic growth points, but also lead the transformation and upgrading of development modes, promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, continuously shape new driving forces and advantages of development, and accelerate the formation of an industrial structure with high technological content, low resource consumption, and low environmental pollution. Green development inevitably involves the transformation of development momentum. This requires actively and prudently promoting the degradation of old kinetic energy, eliminating ineffective supply, and creating conditions and leaving space for the development of new kinetic energy.
Xiao Qing: Breaking through the "chemical industry encirclement", many enterprises have learned to see the big picture, plan for the long term, and understand that high-end, intelligent, and green are the key to competitiveness. On the market, ordinary yellow phosphorus is sold for over 20000 yuan per ton, while black phosphorus independently developed by Xingfa Group, the largest fine phosphorus chemical enterprise in China, can be sold for 5000 yuan per gram. In the process of promoting high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Hubei is gradually forming a group of new industries and new driving forces, driving the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to advance together into the "main battlefield" of innovation. At the same time, ecological circular agriculture such as rice and shrimp co cultivation, pig swamp grain, and fruit swamp tea are flourishing, with a scale of over 8 million acres of rice, fishery, and breeding, ranking first in the country. This indicates that the short-term pains of "hurting muscles and bones" also contain development opportunities for "transformation". Seeking early, deep, and practical transformation and upgrading can stimulate the "multiplier effect" of new kinetic energy growth by simultaneously breaking through.
Hubei is the province with the longest runoff mileage on the main stream of the Yangtze River. It is the location of the Three Gorges Dam Area and the core water source area of the South to North Water Diversion Project. It is an important water source conservation area in the Yangtze River Basin and a national important ecological barrier. It shoulders the major political responsibility of ensuring that "one river flows east and one reservoir delivers clean water to the north".
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