In the spring of 2011, the Yangtze River drought, Xinhua News Agency a picture titled "Crying Porpoise" was widely circulated on the Internet, Hubei Yangtze River Swan Island Conservation Area staff in monitoring the living conditions of the porpoise, during which the photographer photographed a drop of transparent liquid flowing from the eyes of the porpoise, people exclaimed: The porpoise cried!
On May 20, 2011, the staff of the SwanZhou National Yangtze River Dolphin Sanctuary and researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences monitored the living conditions of the finless porpoise. Xinhua News Agency
The corners of the porpoise's mouth rise and seem to be smiling forever, also known as the "smiling angel". Porpoise likes to play in the middle of the river, or walk alone, or three or two as a companion, chasing back and forth, naughty and mischievous, gentle and lovely. Tang Dynasty Han Yu's "Yueyang Lou Bei Dou Si Zhi" poem Yun: "When the porpoise is in a play, the shock waves are suddenly rippling." Gu Han of the Qing Dynasty," "Nine Days of Heavy Wind Blocking Jingkou": "My boat cannot cross if it wants to cross, like a bird folding its wings and thinking of panic." The porpoise is quite proud, and the shoulder and back are protruding from the shoulders. Gu Han encountered a strong wind at the mouth of the Yangtze River, "I can't cross the boat if I want to cross", seeing the porpoise moving forward in the waves, he suddenly had a whimsical idea, "the shoulder and back are prominent and can be taken advantage of", maybe you can ride across the river on the porpoise.
Once upon a time, illegal and overfishing put finless porpoises on the brink of extinction. Xinhua News Agency reported that the "tears" of the porpoise are not just to arouse people's compassion, but to remind the whole society to strengthen the protection of the environment. At the same time, we should also actively create conditions to fully protect the porpoise and keep the smile of the "angel".
On April 26, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the symposium on in-depth promotion of the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt that the Yangtze River is sick and not light. The Yangtze River biocomposity index has reached the worst "fish-free" rating. The more resources are caught, the less the fish, and the ecology is worse and worse. The Yangtze River recuperation is imminent. At the beginning of 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other three ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for the Prohibition of Fishing and the Establishment of a Compensation System in the Key Waters of the Yangtze River Basin", which clearly states that from January 1, 2020, the Yangtze River will fully enter a ten-year recuperation period. The ten-year fishing ban provides an opportunity for survival and reproduction for many organisms unique to the Yangtze River, effectively alleviates the crisis of the decline of biological resources and biodiversity in the Yangtze River, and is also a pragmatic move to save the sharp decline in the number of finless porpoises.
Ding Zeliang of Hubei Yangtze River Swanzhou Whitefin Dolphin National Nature Reserve feeding finless porpoises. Courtesy of the protected area
Keeping the smile of the Yangtze River is the voice of the people along the river. The Communist Party of China (CPC) "takes the hearts of the people as its heart" and resolutely takes action to ban fishing for ten years in the Yangtze River Basin. With the continuous advancement of the ten-year ban on fishing, the living environment of the finless porpoise has been continuously improved, and it is possible for the finless porpoise to reproduce naturally, and the whimsy of the people along the river "protruding from the shoulders and backs can be taken advantage of" will appear frequently.
General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "protecting the ecological environment like protecting the eyes, treating the ecological environment like life". Man and nature are a community of life, the Yangtze River without fish is soulless, ten years of fishing ban is the Communists to practice the Yangtze River great protection of the thousand autumn moves, "fish fly shallow bottom", "fish jumping dragon gate" and "porpoise frolicking" The beauty is therefore just around the corner, and the new picture of the Yangtze River in which man and nature coexist in harmony is about to be perfectly presented.
Source: Jingchu Network
Author: HUANG Qi (Ph.D., Jiangshui Institute of Economics, Dean of Social Sciences, Hubei Province)