Green is the base color of life. For decades, China has unremittingly clothed the land of Shenzhou with green, and the national forest coverage rate has increased from 12.7% in the early 1970s to 23.04% in 2020, ranking first in the world in terms of net forest growth.
At the same time, China's GDP share of the world economy has also grown from 3% 40 years ago to more than 16% today, and China's economic growth and green growth complement each other.
Yuanyang Rice Terrace Watershed Woodcut
In Yunnan, the "woodcut water division system" has been handed down from generation to generation, a horizontal wood, several grooves, so that the flow of water in the mountains, from the main canal to the branch canal, and then effectively distributed to each terrace. Ensuring that each field with different heights can get enough water is the wisdom of the Hani people.
At the beginning of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, on the day of the rice harvest, the Hani people ushered in the traditional new rice festival. Picking, slaughtering, tasting new animals, and worshipping the heavens and the earth from house to house, praying that the sun and the moon will shine on the earth forever.
The world's per capita arable land is 4.8 mu, but here 170,000 mu of terraces, but it feeds nearly 340,000 people, half an acre of land to feed a person, this person and nature skillfully combined to achieve excellent results, has been included in the World Heritage List.
Guizhou rice field fish duck
One side of the rice field is a puddle of water, fish and shrimp are raised in the water, chickens and ducks are raised in the field, and fertile water nourishes the rice. A small ecosystem full of vitality is naturally formed in simple labor, and the traditional production method of "rice field fish and duck" of Miaoxiang people has been inherited for thousands of years and is a globally important agricultural cultural heritage.
Take it in a degree, use it in a knot, and it is always enough. The Chinese nation has always advocated and loved nature. The Chinese civilization, which has lasted for more than 5,000 years, has bred a rich ecological culture and a philosophy of natural balance.
Mangrove and coastal protection
The mangrove forest rooted in the seawater belongs to the marine woody plant community, which is an important place for marine life to migrate, reproduce and inhabit, and has the functions of landmaking, revetment and purification of seawater, and is known as "coast guard".
Today, the lush seagrass bed has become a huge gene bank of marine organisms, with a five-fold increase in the number of surviving species than when seagrass was scarce, and the original species, the horseshoe crab, has returned to roam.
The metamorphosis of Yellow Grass Ridge
Huangcaoling, Yunnan, here are two national nature reserves that are known as "human eyes looking at nature" by academic circles, and are the most abundant natural complexes of biological resources at the same latitude of the earth.
"The Yellow Grass Ridge is high and tall, the water is cold and the harvest is small, the wild vegetables of the mountain grass cross the autumn famine, and the potatoes and half the buckwheat in half a year." This folk proverb is a portrayal of the poverty of Huangcaoling Village.
Ten years ago, the villagers of Huangcaoling realized the principle of following the trend, gave up the traditional farming of digging mountains and flat land to cultivate fields, adopted a growth method close to natural forest trees, and mixed cherry trees, apple trees, pear trees, walnut trees, and a suitable environment, making Huangcaoling a well-known flower and fruit mountain.
Northwest tree planting
Mao Wusu, mongolian meaning "land of difficult grass and trees", Shanxi Youyu is located in the eastern part of the Mao Wusu Desert, and barrenness was once the label of this land. 100,000 right jade people, generation after generation of relay, let more than 100 million trees take root here. The green map advanced 300 kilometers west from Youyu, Shanxi.
Ningxia Lingwu is located in the western part of the Maowusu Desert. For more than 30 years, people here have controlled more than 600,000 mu of sand and controlled more than 1 million mu of shifting sand, pushing green to the east for tens of kilometers.
Yan'an, at the southern tip of the Maowusu Desert, was once one of the most ecologically fragile places in China, with nearly 80% of the area eroded. In just 20 years, Yan'an has returned tens of millions of acres of farmland to forest. The green map of Shaanxi extends 400 kilometers to the north.
To the west of Youyu, to the east of Lingwu, and to the north of Yan'an, more than 10,000 square kilometers of shifting sand in the Maowusu Desert have stopped growing green, 80% of the water and soil are no longer lost, and the vast desert has become an oasis.
Environmental proposals for Chinese youth
In July 2020, an invitation from the United Nations Environment Programme sent a message to imaginative young people around the world: If you have your own ideas for mitigating climate change and protecting biodiversity, come up with solutions and you will have the opportunity to be supported by incubation from UN partners.
Behind the 6,690 proposals from China are the concerns of hundreds of millions of Chinese teenagers aged 15 to 24 about the fate of the earth. The voice of this group may seem meager, but it is the Voice of China to be transmitted to the future of mankind.
Ecology is the economy, protected in development, developed in protection. Building an ecological civilization in which man and nature coexist in harmony is the wisdom that China has contributed to all mankind. Sustainable, replicable and scalable Chinese solutions and Chinese experiences are being shared with the world.
"Ecological civilization" and "jointly building a community of life on earth" are the beautiful words of mankind for the future. The earth is the common and only home of human beings and other life. Hand in hand, work together to build a harmonious and beautiful world!
Source: CCTV Finance