The surging green new momentum! How to Write High Quality Development Answers by Watching the Clear Water of the Yangtze River | Development | Clear Water
The Yangtze River Economic Belt covers 11 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River, spanning three major plates in China, with outstanding ecological status and enormous development potential.Faced with the era proposition of "ecological priority and green development", provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have transformed their development ideas, carefully nurtured the clear water of the river, and worked hard to write a high-quality development answer sheet.
Walking on both sides of the Yangtze River, with lush greenery and soaring birds, the picture of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature can be seen everywhere. Nowadays, the main stream of the Yangtze River has maintained Class II water quality for three consecutive years, and beautiful ecological corridors have been connected by riverside parks. However, ten years ago, some places along the Yangtze River were still lined with chimneys and sewage flowed horizontally.
He traveled to various provinces and cities along the Yangtze River, presided over three symposiums and delivered important speeches, emphasizing the overwhelming importance of restoring the ecological environment of the Yangtze River and setting rules for the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt; To deeply elucidate the five dialectical relationships of "overall promotion and key breakthroughs", and to guide the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt; Furthermore, the strategic mission is to empower the Yangtze River Economic Belt as the main battlefield for ecological priority and green development, to smooth the domestic and international dual circulation arteries, and to lead the main force for high-quality economic development.
The governance of major rivers is difficult in Kowloon, where each individual is responsible for their own affairs. With the concept of "joint efforts to protect and not engage in large-scale development" deeply ingrained in people's hearts, the Yangtze River Basin has become a consensus to work together for governance. The coordinated governance of "one river, two lakes" in the three provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi, and Hunan, and the establishment of horizontal ecological compensation mechanisms in Zhejiang and Anhui, have transformed shoreline management into the restoration of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands in many areas. In the Chishui River, a primary tributary of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan have implemented unified standards to control pollution emissions and illegal fishing. Some previously elusive fish species have returned to people's sight.
Lan Song, a monitor at the Fisheries Research Institute of Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences: Since we came here in June this year, we have monitored more than 60 species of fish, especially the species and quantity of some rare fish, which have significantly improved.
It is a common problem faced by some major economic provinces along the Yangtze River.
For a long time, the heavy chemical industry along the Yangtze River has been densely laid out. In the past, some places were concerned that excessive rectification efforts would affect fiscal revenue in the short term, and low-quality and inefficient polluting enterprises would always shut down.
Wang Rongfei, Deputy Director of the Development and Reform Commission of Jiangsu Province: The problem lies in the water, and the root lies on the shore. The ecological environment of the Yangtze River is fundamentally a matter of development mode and concept. We must resolutely reverse the misconception of "exchanging environment for growth", break through the old and innovate, and free up development space.
Under strict environmental requirements, various regions are reorganizing their industrial chains and cultivating new driving forces. The Changzhou section of the coastline, which is only 25.8 kilometers long, once gathered more than 120 chemical enterprises. After four rounds of centralized rectification, all low-end chemical enterprises withdrew, leaving space for green space and emerging industries. The increasingly improving ecological environment has even attracted carbon fiber enterprises with strict air quality requirements to settle down, and the layout of Binjiang has been revitalized.
Jiang Hao, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Binjiang Economic Development Zone in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province: Deep green refers to the ecological space of re greening, while light green refers to enterprises using new materials, and the land area has significantly increased. The industrial output value has not decreased but increased, crossing two billion yuan levels in two years.
Nowadays, the outdated chemical production capacity within one kilometer of the Yangtze River has been basically eliminated, and new growth points have emerged. A number of emerging industries such as upstream power batteries, midstream electronic grade phosphoric acid, and downstream new materials are rapidly emerging. Three national industrial innovation centers, over 800 national enterprise technology centers, and 30 national strategic emerging industry clusters have formed along the Yangtze River. In 2022, the gross domestic product of the Yangtze River Economic Belt region reached 55.98 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.0%, accounting for 46.5% of the national total.
Jia Ruoxiang, Director of the Comprehensive Research Office of the Institute of Land Development and Regional Economy of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that the ecological advantage of the Yangtze River Basin has been transformed into the advantage of high-quality economic development, and new driving forces for green development have surged out, realizing the mutual promotion and progress of high-level ecological protection and high-quality economic development, and providing a model for promoting Chinese path to modernization from a high starting point.
