To build a beautiful China, the sky is bluer, the mountains are greener, and the water is cleaner

Source: People's Daily - People's Daily

The landmark achievements of the new era can be seen everywhere in the ever-changing land of Shenzhou, which is reflected in all fields of economic and social life and occurs around everyone. The changes around us are the most real and moving, and they can also best outline the map of China's endeavor in the new era. This edition will launch a series of reviews today, and readers will feel the magnificent journey of the new era in this decade from the specific, subtle, and perceptible changes.

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A star orbit is an orbit produced by the continuous movement of a star. In Beijing, in the past, shooting star tracks often required going to the suburbs; Recently, some photography enthusiasts have photographed the star track in Shougang Park. In the past, in the suburbs, and now in the urban areas, the location of the star tracks has changed, which truly shows the continuous improvement of Beijing's air quality. Taking last year as an example, the number of days with good air quality in Beijing reached 288 days, accounting for 78.9% of the total number of days in the whole year, an increase of 112 days over 2013; The number of heavily polluted days fell to 8 days, a full 50 days less than in 2013. The visible changes vividly reflect the remarkable achievements of the construction of ecological civilization in the new era in the past 10 years.

A good ecological environment is the fairest public good and the most inclusive people's livelihood and well-being. Not long ago, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Liaoning, he came to the East Lake Forest Park located on the north side of the confluence of the Xiaoling River and the Daughter River in Jinzhou City to inspect the restoration and protection of the local ecological environment, emphasizing: "The construction of ecological civilization can best bring the people a sense of gain, the environment has improved, and the people have the deepest experience." The Grand Canal in Beijing, the Suzhou River in Shanghai, and the Haihe River in Tianjin are all very good after the transformation, and the masses are very welcome. Parks like this should be built more, built for the people, built for the public, and create a happy life for the people. "The environment is the people's livelihood, the green mountains are beautiful, and the blue sky is also happiness." Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has grasped the construction of ecological civilization with unprecedented strength, carried out a series of fundamental, pioneering and long-term work, systematically formed Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, guided the historical, turning and overall changes in the ecological environmental protection of the mainland, and made major strides in the construction of a beautiful China. In the past decade, the sky has been bluer, the mountains are greener, the water is cleaner, the environment is more beautiful, and the people's sense of ecological environment gain, happiness and security has been continuously improved.

The clear sky, the gentle breeze, the people's livelihood and the hope of the people. Many years ago, heavily polluted weather, black and odorous water bodies, garbage sieges, and dirty and chaotic rural environment once became "the pain of the people's hearts and the people's livelihood, which seriously affected the people's production and life, and the people had big opinions and many complaints." With the in-depth implementation of the three major action plans for the prevention and control of air, water and soil pollution, the defense of blue sky, clear water and pure land has been comprehensively promoted, and the outstanding ecological and environmental problems around the people have been intensively overcome. In Shanghai, the citizens who live next to the old site of Yangshupu Port once suffered from the roar of the factory and the flow of sewage, and people look forward to pushing open the windows to no longer have a pungent odor, and after hard treatment, the beauty of the river bank is now reproduced. In Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province, Xuejiawa, with an area of 986 acres, used to gather docks, solid waste yards, "scattered pollution" enterprises, farms, dangerous old houses, fishermen's houses and work boats, etc. "the river does not see the river", after comprehensive rectification, now it has become a beautiful shoreline and urban "ecological living room" where the people are pro-river and pro-green. Increasingly fresh air, clean water quality, and beautiful mountains and rivers make the people really feel the improvement of the quality of the ecological environment.

Ecological protection and pollution prevention and control are inseparable and interact. General Secretary Xi Jinping once made an image analogy: "Pollution prevention and control is like a molecule, ecological protection is like a denominator, we must do a good job of subtraction to reduce pollutant emissions for molecules, and do a good job of adding to the denominator to expand environmental capacity, and coordinate efforts." "In the past decade, from the formulation and revision of many laws and regulations such as the Environmental Protection Law, to the comprehensive implementation of the central ecological environmental protection supervision; From the establishment of a system of nature reserves with national parks as the main body, to the continuous implementation of large-scale land greening actions; From the comprehensive implementation of the evaluation and assessment system and the responsibility investigation system for the construction of ecological civilization, to the comprehensive implementation of the river and lake chief system and the forest chief system... Ten years of hard work, ten years of extraordinary achievements, we protect the ecological environment like protecting the eyes, treat the ecological environment like life, let the beautiful picture of "green mountains do not ink thousands of autumn paintings, green water without strings and ancient qin" slowly spread, so that the people can further enjoy the blue sky and white clouds, twinkling stars, clear water, green banks, fish flying shallow bottom, birds and flowers, idyllic scenery.

People do not live up to Qingshan, and Qingshan will certainly not live up to people. Green waters and green mountains are both natural wealth and economic wealth. Lan Xiaohong, a villager in Luzhu Village, Hetian Town, Changting, Fujian Province, has an old photo that has been treasured for more than ten years, in which "the mountain is bald mountain, and the water is yellow mud water" - that is the original appearance of her family's chicken farm. To raise chickens, plant trees first. Through people pulling saplings, shouldering the stream, trees planted one by one, green inch by inch long, more than 7,000 osmanthus flowers, more than 1,000 yew trees, more than 300 luo han pine and more than 500 red leaf heather have taken root in the red soil. The ecology is good, in exchange for the scale and efficiency of the farm continues to improve, last year's sales of nearly 10 million yuan. On the carton of cooked food packaging, a sentence is particularly eye-catching - "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains". This is the voice of the local people, and it is also the truth that has been tested in practice. Looking at Shenzhou, more and more people have eaten ecological rice and lived a good life. The ecological stories of changing the old appearance and the new face vividly show that ecological environmental protection and economic development are not contradictory and antagonistic relations, but dialectical unity; Only by laying the foundation of green development will there be a high-speed progress in future development.

Fenhe River, the second largest tributary of the Yellow River, was once seriously polluted, after continuous treatment, the "Fenhe Late Crossing" is picturesque, and the Fenhe River Scenic Area has become a good place for Leisure and Entertainment of Taiyuan citizens. On May 12, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Jinyang Bridge section of The Taiyuan District of the Fenhe River. Standing on the bank of the Fenhe River, hearing that the Fenhe River has gradually achieved "abundant water, better water quality, and beautiful scenery", General Secretary Xi Jinping nodded and praised: "It is really a great change!" This is an affirmation of achievements and a call to persistently promote the construction of ecological civilization. Firmly establish the concept that green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, carry forward the spirit of struggle of not bowing down in the face of difficulties, dare to turn the desert into an oasis, continue to work hard, and work for a long time, green will gradually become the background of high-quality development, and good ecology will increasingly become the norm of happy life. People's Daily ( 2022-09-05 05 edition)