Seeing China with the River Pentium ｜ Ecological Priority and Green Development Play the Song of the Yangtze River in the New Era

CCTV News:There are many rivers and rich water systems in China, which nourish Chinese children and witness the changes of time. Starting from today (October 1st), we will launch a series of reports on "Rivers Rushing to See China" in the context of ten rivers.

Today we will pay attention to the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation and an important support for its development. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the provinces along the Yangtze River have embarked on a road of high-quality development with ecological priority and green development.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the provinces along the Yangtze River have put the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming position. At the source of Tuotuo River and Bande Lake, once herders became environmental protection volunteers to protect the biodiversity at the source of the Yangtze River. In the upper reaches, Yunnan, Sichuan and Chongqing have established a cross-provincial horizontal ecological compensation mechanism to jointly build an ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River; In the middle reaches, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces promoted ecological joint defense and governance, and the green ecological corridor in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River was accelerated. In the downstream, the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta jointly do a good job in sewage outlet remediation to improve the ecological quality of transboundary water bodies in the basin.

In 2021, the proportion of excellent water quality in the state-controlled section of the Yangtze River basin was 97.1%, and the water quality of the main stream has reached Grade II for two consecutive years.

Recuperate. From January 1, 2021, the key waters of the Yangtze River Basin will be closed to fishing for ten years. 111,000 fishing boats and 231,000 fishermen were arrested and landed. In Xuejiawa, Maanshan, Anhui Province, Chen Lanxiang, who has been fishing all her life, put down her fishing net and boarded the Internet, and set up "Sanguniang Labor Service Co., Ltd." to drive the fishermen ashore to start businesses together. In 2021, the company paid a dividend of 7,000 yuan to each household of the fishermen.

Adhere to ecological priority and green development, and the golden waterway will be smoother. In 2021, the cargo throughput of trunk ports of the Yangtze River exceeded 3.5 billion tons, ranking first among inland rivers in the world.

The provinces and cities along the Yangtze River adhere to the drive of innovation, and a number of competitive and influential advantageous industrial clusters have accelerated their growth. Guizhou relies on abundant hydropower resources to build a big data industry; Sichuan and Chongqing continue to exert their efforts in automobile, electronic information and equipment manufacturing industries; Hunan’s advanced equipment, new energy and new materials industries have injected new kinetic energy into high-quality development; Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui jointly built the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community, jointly unveiled the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, and continuously promoted the deep integration of science and technology industries.