On the morning of April 24, 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping listened to the work report of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government during his inspection in Chongqing, and he pointed out that we should vigorously promote green development, build a beautiful Chongqing, and build an important ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
Chongqing, located in the "throat" of the Yangtze River, protects the clear water of the Yangtze River and has a pivotal strategic position in the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
For the ecological protection and development of the Yangtze River, General Secretary Xi Jinping has long had a plan in mind.
"Today may be a disappointment for you, this time it's not about development, it's about protection. On January 5, 2016, at the symposium on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt held in Chongqing, General Secretary Xi Jinping got straight to the point, "At present and for a long time in the future, it is necessary to put the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming position, and jointly grasp the great protection, not large-scale development." ”
This made many attendees feel "like a basin of cold water".
Cold water to wake up.
The pain of the Yangtze River in the past is the ecological price of rapid development since the reform and opening up. General Secretary Xi Jinping once sadly described the Yangtze River as "sick, and not lightly ill".
The line of thought is only for the rejuvenation of the river.
From October 10 to 13, 2023, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited Jiangxi. On the afternoon of the 10th, when Xi Jinping inspected the Jiujiangcheng section of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, he walked along the embankment in the rain to inspect the coastal landscape. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi
Since 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River for research, and presided over four symposiums, and the name of the meeting has also changed from "promoting" to "in-depth promoting" and "comprehensively promoting", and then to "further promoting the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt". Standing at the height of history and the overall situation, the general secretary pointed out the path for the overall promotion of ecological protection and social and economic development of the Yangtze River.
On the afternoon of October 12, 2023, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, presided over a symposium on further promoting the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province and delivered an important speech. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng
It is carried out in an all-round way, and all links are in-depth. A "battle to defend the Yangtze River" of water pollution prevention, water ecological restoration, water resources protection, and water security is in full swing across the river basin. From the issuance and implementation of the "Outline of the Development Plan for the Yangtze River Economic Belt" to the launch of a ten-year ban on fishing in key waters of the Yangtze River Basin, from the formulation and implementation of the Yangtze River Protection Law, to the gradual solution of the problem of "re-encircling the Yangtze River...... Eight years have passed, and the report card of "protection" is obvious to all.
"The proportion of excellent water quality is 94.5%, and the main stream of the Yangtze River has been Class II water quality for three consecutive years. In October 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Jiangxi and presided over a symposium on further promoting the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. At the meeting, the general secretary sighed: "Summarizing the figures, it can be seen that since the implementation of the development strategy of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, it has achieved strategic benefits. ”
Ships sail in the waters of Wushan County, Chongqing Municipality, Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, under the shade of red leaves (photo taken on November 30, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiao Yijiu
The river is flowing, and the indomitable momentum plays the surging movement of the new era.
Source: People's Daily Online-Communist Party of China News Network