Green is the bright background color of high-quality development. To further promote the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, it is necessary to adhere to green development, strengthen the joint protection and governance of the ecological environment, broaden the path of transforming ecological advantages into economic advantages, and firmly adhere to the ecological protection red line in the Yangtze River Delta region.
On the afternoon of November 12, 2020, Xi Jinping walked along the riverside to inspect the riverside ecological environment in the Binjiang area of Wushan District, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province.
On the afternoon of September 20, 2023, Xi Jinping inspected the Zhedong Canal Cultural Park in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province.
The Yangtze River Delta region is connected by mountains and rivers, rivers and lakes, and ecology. In recent years, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have jointly grasped the governance of Taihu Lake, built a solid ecological foundation, and promoted green development, which has become a vivid practice of joint protection and management of the ecological environment in the Yangtze River Delta region.
This is a view of Taihu Lake taken in Dongshan Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province (drone photo taken on April 10, 2024).
This is the restoration project of the wetland belt around Taihu Lake in Jinting Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province (drone photo taken on April 11, 2024).
On April 11, 2024, law enforcement officers from the High-tech Zone Squadron of the Wuxing District Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, drove a car to patrol the shores of Taihu Lake (drone photo).
On April 11, 2024, in Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, river cleaners clean cage nets for illegal fishing along the shores of Taihu Lake.
Fishermen along the coast retired from fishing and went ashore, bidding farewell to "floating on the water" and starting a new life.
On April 11, 2024, workers at the Jinting Water Conservancy and Water Management Service Station in Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, salvage floating objects on Taihu Lake (drone photo). In 2020, in order to protect the aquatic biological resources of Taihu Lake and promote the effective improvement of the ecological environment of the waters, fishermen in Jinting Town stopped fishing operations, and some of them were resettled to the sanitation station and tourism group for employment.
The "green water and green mountains" composed of fishing villages and nature have increasingly become the "gold and silver mountains" of the villagers.
This is Yigao New Village, located in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, where fishermen are resettled (drone photo taken on April 11, 2024).
On April 11, 2024, in Jinting Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, retired fisherman Shen Xuerong and his wife Shen Yanyan choose vegetables at their family's farmhouse "Delicious Fisherman's Crab Garden". "After the retirement of the fishing, the ecological environment of Taihu Lake is getting better and better, there are more and more tourists, and our family's farmhouse business is becoming more and more prosperous. Shen Xuerong said with emotion.
Tourists visit Yang Guizhen Crab Manor on the shore of Taihu Lake in Yang Wei Village, Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, April 11, 2024 (drone photo). In order to improve the water quality of Taihu Lake, in 2019, Taihu Lake completed the "return of crabs to the lake", and all the hairy crabs cultivated in purse seine nets in Taihu Lake waters were relocated to the inner pond for breeding.
This is a homestay taken on the shore of Taihu Lake in Dongshan Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province (drone photo taken on April 11, 2024).
The Yangtze River Delta region is anchored in ecological priority and green development, and works together to draw a beautiful picture of the harmonious development of man and nature.
Director: Liu Jian
Producer: Zou Shengwen
Planner: Lai Xiangdong, Liu Kang, Wu Huanqing
Co-ordinator: Yuan Zhenyu, Bi Xiaoyang, Zhang Zhanpeng
Visual Design: Zhang Ziyu
Editors: Lin Fanjing, Bi Xiaoyang, Li Yan, Zhang Manyi, Zhang Haobo
Photography: Ji Chunpeng, Weng Xinyang
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