Source: People's Daily - Anhui Channel
Ten years at a time, ten years across the new look.
Time is like an invisible magician, light sleeves brushing, wiping away the haze of the sky, recreating the clarity of the clear water, and adding the greenery of the mountains and rivers. Behind the "magic" is the determination to protect and govern the ecological environment, and it is the hardship of grinding a sword for ten years.
In the past ten years, east to all the way to the United States, take off a heavy "medal": won the title of national ecological county, successfully created a provincial forest city, in 2020 was rated as a demonstration county of forest and grass ecological construction, 2019-2021 ranked first in the city's comprehensive target assessment of the forest chief system for three consecutive years...
Ride and go, go green. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Dongzhi County has firmly established the development concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains" and actively explored a path of ecological priority and green development.
The whole county seat. Dongzhi county party committee propaganda department courtesy of the picture
Continue to attack the tough points and paint the "clear water and blue sky"
The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the autumn mood is getting stronger. Looking at the vast and magnificent Shengjin Lake, on the vast water, the migratory birds that have returned early are leisurely foraging.
In the past, due to the surrounding residents surrounding the lake to cultivate and fish, the ecological environment of Shengjin Lake and the living environment of migratory birds were greatly affected and threatened, and ecological restoration was imminent.
"I went from being a fisherman to a steward at Shengjin Lake, and my job is still on the lake, but the nature is completely different." Chen Dejian, 52, said that since 2014, Dongzhi County has increased the environmental management of Shengjin Lake, implemented the fishermen's landing project, and Chen Dejian, who has lived in the Shengjin Lake Lake District for generations, consciously dismantled his own fishing and breeding facilities and mobilized everyone to go ashore, and then engaged in the patrol work of Shengjin Lake, with a management distance of 20 kilometers, and a total of 1331 fishermen like him who went ashore and changed their careers.
With the continuous improvement of the natural environment, the "lung of Dongzhi" after ecological restoration has become a model for the improvement of the ecological environment of Dongzhi County, with more than 100,000 waterfowl wintering in the lake every year, and some rare birds such as oriental white storks, gray cranes and black storks that are difficult to see in previous years have also reappeared in Shengjin Lake.
"In recent years, our county has continued to carry out 'green shield' special actions focusing on nature reserves such as Shengjin Lake, and built online monitoring equipment for the water quality of Shengjin Lake to ensure that the water quality meets the standards and the clean water enters the river." Hu Zhengkai, head of the Dongzhi County Ecological Environment Monitoring Station, said.
Wheat harvest scene in the east to Jiangxin Prefecture. Dongzhi county party committee propaganda department courtesy of the picture
Birds fly and fish leap and come alive. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Dongzhi County has unswervingly shouldered the political responsibility for the construction of ecological civilization and ecological environmental protection, and environmental governance has continuously moved from "treating the symptoms" to "curing the root causes", and the ecological environment has been significantly improved.
——The green scenery here is even more beautiful. Make every effort to build a beautiful Yangtze River Economic Belt with a clean water and green industry, manage 25,000 mu of Shengjin Lake polder, complete 280,000 mu of artificial afforestation, implement the ecological re-greening of the Yangtze River shoreline of 23,685 mu, and build and upgrade 25.6 km of the Yangtze River Green Belt.
—— The fresh air here is already standard. In 2021, the air quality rate reached 92.9%, and the average concentration of PM2.5 was 26 μg/m3, compared with 2016, the air quality rate increased by 7.0% year-on-year, and the average pm2.5 concentration decreased by 29.7%.
—— The rivers and lakes here are getting clearer and clearer. In the first half of 2022, the water quality of the Zhangxi section of the Huangxiang River reached the surface water environmental quality standard Class I standard, and since 2016, the water quality of all centralized drinking water sources in the county has reached 100%.
East to Huangni Lake photovoltaic power generation. Dongzhi county party committee propaganda department courtesy of the picture
In-depth governance, guarding the "only green"
"The 'junkyard' became a park, and now it's so beautiful!" After dinner, Wu Ailian, a villager in Xiangyu Village, Xiangyu Town, took a walk while recording the new look of the place with her mobile phone.
As the villagers said, the "No. 3 Weir", which used to be known as the "stinky ditch", is now a "paradise" with green seedlings, hardened roads stretching straight, and marigolds blooming, becoming a "paradise" that "looks up to see the mountains, looks down at the water, and goes out to see the green".
The "No. 3 Weir", with a total length of 1.5 kilometers, is a tributary of the old river in Xiangyu passing through the town of Xiangyu, which has become a health dead end in the village due to its disrepair and continuous accumulation of silt.
Pollution prevention and control cannot be delayed. In 2020, Dongzhi County will officially put the governance of the "No. 3 Weir" on the work agenda. "The project is divided into three phases, with a total investment of 12 million yuan, of which 10 million yuan is the central environmental protection special fund." Li Kefei, head of the water department of the Dongzhi County Ecological and Environmental Bureau, said that the goal of "changing the river, clearing the water, fixing the embankment, greening the shore and beautiful scenery" has now been achieved here.
Picturesque Guangang Yangfa Village. Dongzhi county party committee propaganda department courtesy of the picture
In the past decade, the county has taken the "improvement of human settlement environment" as the starting point, making full use of rural public places, water bodies along the coast, farmland and other corner open spaces to plant indigenous tree species, since 2012 to create 11 provincial forest towns, 127 forest villages, forest corridor demonstration section of 60.5 kilometers; this year is creating 4 provincial forest towns, after passing the acceptance, the county's forest town creation rate will reach 100%.
In the past ten years, the county has focused on the implementation of key forestry ecological projects such as the 10 million mu forest growth project, the forestry greening and efficiency project, the new round of returning farmland to forest, the European investment project, and the pilot demonstration project of land greening, and the forest coverage rate has reached 58.58% through green protection and greening; In 2021, the forest land area of the county is 212670.5 hectares, an increase of 6862.23 hectares compared with 2012, and every inch of green on the east map is a hard-won ecological wealth.
Accelerate transformation and promote "green to make gold"
Let "green" become the background of development, which is the goal and action.
The "Sky Eye" of the dense park records the production and emissions of the backhaul enterprise in real time, and the "central" system of the supervision platform conducts big data analysis and comparison in real time, and immediately issues a red warning when environmental protection and safety hazards are found. In the emergency command platform of the East To Economic Development Zone, the gridded intelligent management system operates online 24 hours a day, escorting the green and safe production of the park.
"We always keep in mind that safety and environmental protection is the 'lifeline' of enterprise development, environmental protection investment never 'cherishes gold', the company through continuous equipment, improve technology, to ensure that environmental protection capabilities and levels to a new level." Anhui Suqi Chemical Co., Ltd. is an "old" enterprise in the east to the economic development zone, the relevant person in charge of the company introduced that the company has initially realized the automation of the whole process, and the manual operation link has been greatly reduced, effectively improving the intrinsic safety of the process.
Increase the ecological "green content" and enhance the development "gold content". Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the east has planted a thick ecological background, strictly restricted the landing of "two high" projects, vigorously promoted the construction of green parks, and accelerated the transformation and upgrading of enterprises towards intelligence and greening through "cage for birds", mergers and acquisitions.
Forest care. Dongzhi county party committee propaganda department courtesy of the picture
Solid green water and green mountains, build the foundation of green development. In the past ten years, Dongzhi County has continued to develop ecological forestry economy and green environmental protection industry, so that "green water and green mountains" have truly transformed into "golden mountains and silver mountains":
——The annual output value of woody oilseed forest in full fruit period exceeded 100 million yuan, the area of characteristic economic forest reached 12,320 mu, and the annual output value of the seedling and flower base reached 65.6425 million yuan; since 2014, the county has developed a total of 37,120 mu of under-forest economic area, and has received a total of 9.7 million yuan of financial support from all levels.
——There are more than 260 new forestry business entities in the county, 7 provincial forestry industrialization leading enterprises, 5 provincial farmers' forestry professional cooperative demonstration societies, 7 provincial family farms, and 15 forest tourist families in Anhui Province.
——In 2020, the European Investment Bank loan Yangtze River Economic Belt Rare Tree Species Protection and Development Project was launched in Dongzhi County, with a total project scale of 4,220 hectares, a total investment of 94.5 million yuan, a cumulative production of 950,000 cubic meters of wood during the project calculation period, and a direct economic income of more than 1.9 billion yuan.
Shengjin Lake migratory birds. Dongzhi county party committee propaganda department courtesy of the picture
Three United States to the east, ten years of hard work, a hundred years of initial intention, a thousand autumn deeds.
Entering a new stage of development, the 550,000 dongzhi people have always been full of confidence and pride, striving to be the main force in building a comprehensive green transformation demonstration zone for economic and social development, so that "green" will become a clear foundation for the high-quality development of dongzhi's economy. (Shi Cheng)