CCTV News (News Network): In the past 6 years since the symposium on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt was held, the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have placed the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming position, promoted the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, undergone turning points in ecological environmental protection, and made historic achievements in economic and social development.
On the east bank of the Yangtze River estuary in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, just past the New Year's Day holiday, this section of binjiang park has become a popular punch card for local citizens.
In the past 6 years, Nantong has closed 2 chemical parks along the river and more than 400 chemical enterprises, and a coastal ecological landscape belt along the river that runs through 447 kilometers is under construction.
Pollution control, shore management, fishing control, and multi-pronged coordinated advancement of provinces and cities along the river. From 00:00 on January 1, 2021, the ten-year fishing ban in key waters of the Yangtze River Basin was fully launched. Dongdongting Lake, in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, is now a paradise for more than 120 porpoises, more than 280 elk and nearly 290,000 migratory birds. In the Chishui River Basin upstream, fish stocks have recovered from 108 to 167 five years ago.
Jointly grasp great protection and do not engage in large-scale development. In the past 6 years, the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have actively changed their development concepts and explored the road of ecological priority green development.
Guangyang Island, the largest Jiangxin Island in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, once planned a real estate development volume of 3 million square meters, Chongqing urgently stopped real estate development, put the restoration of ecology in an overwhelming position, and promoted the development of multiple ecological industries such as ecology + education, cultural tourism, agriculture; Kaijiang County, Dazhou, Sichuan Province, has created nearly 100,000 mu of rice-fishing modern agricultural park through the combination of planting and breeding, ecological cycle, etc., driving the average income of farmers in the park to increase by more than 4,000 yuan.
In the past 6 years, the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have promoted high-quality economic development around the upgrading of the industrial base and the modernization of the industrial chain. Shanghai focuses on strategic emerging areas, the construction of science and technology innovation center is comprehensively upgraded; Anhui Tongling builds an advanced structural materials industry cluster with copper-based new materials as the main body; Hubei Yichang cracks the "chemical wall", relies on the advantages of phosphate ore and phosphorus chemical industry to develop the power battery industry and extend the industrial chain.
Source: CCTV