In Longhui, a model county for greening in the country, there is a baton called afforestation, which has been passed down from generation to generation, and there is a spirit called afforestation in stone mountains, which has been passed down from generation to generation.
Over the past decades, generation after generation of foresters have firm beliefs, hard work, and innovation, and have written a history of the struggle for the green revolution against barren mountains and stones.
Wang Dingwei, a senior engineer of the bureau, is as his name suggests, nailed to the stone like a nail, and has been working for 30 years in afforestation on the rocky mountain, and he has vowed not to destroy the rocky mountain, and Wang Dingwei has been rated as an advanced individual in the country in desertification prevention and control.
The forestry system of the county has produced four national forestry advanced individuals and model workers, Luo Jinta, Liu Weixiang, Xiao Shiping and Wang Dingwei, who use the forestry spirit of "diligence, perseverance, loyalty, selfless dedication, and dedication".
Rooted in the crevices of the stone
Longhuishi has a profound cultural heritage and a long history. In Xiaoao Village, Gaoping Town, 7,000 years ago, the Neolithic stone sword, stone knife and stone axe were found, which made us seem to hear the sound of the ancestors using stone tools to open up the world, and the ancestors used stone culture to push human beings step by step to modern civilization.
Longhui is a rocky county, and there are 1.2 million mu of limestone karst land in the southern part of the county, accounting for 27.91% of the total land area of the county. Among them, 320,000 acres of rocky desertification land, accounting for 26.67% of the karst land area, accounting for 7.45% of the total land area of the county, distributed in 15 townships and towns in the county, stretching for 50 kilometers, the raging stubborn stone is like a "flame mountain", in summer, the temperature is as high as 50 degrees Celsius or more, the ground is thin and the grass is dry, a desolate scene.
The stones in the south are long, the sand and gravel flows in the north, and natural disasters are frequent, which is a true portrayal of Longhui. The Longhui Wulin people, represented by Zhang Shimo, performed a decades-long man-stone war here.
They, wearing hats, carrying kettles, and straw sandals, fought the scorching heat and the severe cold, accompanied by the blue sky and white clouds, and the barren mountains and bald mountains; Drill thorn frames, dig stone nests, pick up tree seeds, drink a sip of mountain spring water when you are thirsty, find some wild fruits to satisfy your hunger when you are hungry, and sleep on the ground with the earth as a seat and a stone as a pillow when you are tired; Rejoicing in the collection of data, happy to see the growing trees, the mountains are green, and the vast Fan Linhai throws hardships and fatigue into the sky.
They spent seven years, traveled thousands of kilometers, collected and calculated tens of thousands of data, tested 55 tree species, and determined that seven varieties of Masson pine, Pinus tabuliformis, Huangshan pine, Guangdong pine, cypress, alder, and birch were the most suitable varieties for planting in Shishan, among which cypress was the most suitable tree species for afforestation in Shishan.
How can forests be planted without soil on the stones? The villagers used the method of chiseling stones to dig holes in the stones and plant trees. The villagers of Baishan in Hexiangqiao Town still remember that decades ago, the villagers took their children to dig stones on the stone mountain to make forests, and they don't know how many hoes were broken and how many chisels were broken. Finally, the stones turned green little by little under the chisels of the villagers, and the former "Flaming Mountain" became a sea of green.
With the dedication spirit of "greening the barren mountains and turning white", the people of Longhui Forest have planted one mountain after another, governed one river basin after another, and built from generation to generation, in exchange for mountains and mountains, and the green fields are boundless. The county has carved stones and afforested on 300,000 acres of stone mountains, writing a green epic of fighting with the sky and the earth. According to statistics, the county has planted more than 9,000 cypress trees in the cracks of the stones, spreading ecological civilization in the stones.
"Take a step back" and the mountains and rivers are beautiful
The soil erosion in Longhui was very serious, as long as there was a little fertile soil washed clean by a rain, resulting in more and more poor soil. Before 2000, the area of soil erosion in the county reached 1.32 million mu, accounting for 30.7% of the total land area of the county, and it was one of the key counties of soil erosion in the province, which seriously affected the local ecological security and grain production.
In order to tear off the label and pronouns, through the implementation of returning farmland to forest, the ecological environment has been changed, and soil erosion has been effectively controlled through returning farmland to forest, so that barren mountains can slowly turn green, and from barren mountain counties to national greening model counties. According to statistics, the annual loss of water and soil reaches 500,000 cubic meters, which is equivalent to the loss of 200,000 mu of land in the past 20 years.
What is also on the gold and silver mountains is the ecological dividend. In the past, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water, which led to a vicious circle of eating the mountains and eating poor, running out of water, deteriorating the ecological environment, and getting less and less income. After the implementation of the practice of returning farmland to forests, the state's investment has continued to increase, the masses have directly benefited, and remarkable economic benefits have been achieved.
The ecological benefits are obvious, and the ecological environment has been improved. At present, 360,000 acres of canopy forests have been closed in the county, the area of soil erosion has been significantly reduced, and the soil erosion phenomenon of "sediment flow in the north and stone growth in the south" has been effectively controlled. In particular, in the southern rocky desertification area, 130,000 mu of afforestation of rocky mountains have been completed, and the area of forest has reached 120,000 mu, which has set a model for the comprehensive management of rocky desertification in the county, the province and even the whole country.
The structure has been adjusted, and the development of industrialization has been promoted, and the county has built a total of 80,000 acres of fir trees, 80,000 acres of cypress, 50,000 acres of honeysuckle, 20,000 acres of bamboo, 100,000 acres of masson pine, foreign pine and 70,000 acres of pear, chestnut and other fruit trees; It has consolidated six forestry bases, including 100,000 acres of fruit base, 100,000 acres of bamboo shoot forest base, 150,000 mu of fir fast-harvest forest base, 250,000 mu of pine industrial raw material forest base, 150,000 mu of Chinese herbal medicine forest base, and 100,000 mu of cypress timber forest base, which has accelerated the pace of adjustment of the county's agricultural industry structure and promoted the rapid development of industrialization.
We have discarded old ideas and accumulated new experiences. For a long time, afforestation and greening have stayed in the inherent mode and mode, and the old concept has become a bottleneck restricting the development of forestry. Through the implementation of returning farmland to forests, we have discarded old ideas, old concepts, and bad work styles, changed the work style of cadres, created a new afforestation model, created bright spots, and created experience.
In the allocation of forest species and tree species, the county adheres to the principle of adapting measures to local conditions and suitable trees in the right place, and fully considers the wishes of farmers, so that suitable forests are forests, fruits are fruits, and medicines are medicines, and afforestation tree species are mainly native tree species, and the proportion of ecological forests is more than 80%, and the mixed coniferous and broad-leaved trees are strictly implemented, and the proportion of mixed broad-leaved trees is more than 30%, so as to improve the quality and ecological benefits of forest stands.
The county has explored 12 suitable models of returning farmland to forests in 4 categories, organically combining ecological governance with industrial development, which can not only control soil erosion, improve the ecological environment, but also help the people quickly get rid of poverty and become rich. The county has established and improved the forest management and protection system, and the county is equipped with a total of 1,284 forest rangers, forming a forest protection network at the county, township and village levels. Policies such as ex-situ poverty alleviation and relocation have been used to help households who have returned farmland to get out of the mountains. In recent years, more than 2,000 households in the county have been resettled in mountainous areas.
With the improvement of the ecological environment, the agricultural production in the demonstration area has been bumper year after year, the income of the villagers has continued to grow, and the appearance of the village is changing with each passing day. More than 400 villages in the county have been rated as demonstration villages for ecological construction.
Everywhere is dawning
Retain the green mountains, protect the forests, string up the cultural landscape with the natural landscape, and protect the ecological beauty like protecting the treasure, and the green mountains and green waters are the background color of ecological civilization.
The rhododendrons of the Ten Great Realms, the money pine of Wangyun Mountain, the cherry blossoms of Dadong Mountain, the red maple of White Horse Mountain... Everywhere is the sunrise and everywhere the scenery, everywhere is the green ocean, the world of flowers, to achieve the goal of full of green, flowers all over the mountain, cars in the green, people smell the fragrance of flowers in the scene, become a new tourist route and new scenic spot in the county.
The county combines afforestation projects with precise improvement of forest quality to meet the people's demand for high-quality forest ecological products. Since the establishment of forests, a total of 39,633.5 hectares of forests have been planted in the county, of which 25,832.8 hectares (65.2%) have been accurately improved in forest quality.
The county combines urban and rural greening construction with the improvement of human settlements, and conforms to the new expectations of the people for a better environment and a happy life. The county has created 1 national ecological and cultural village, 2 national forest villages, 1 provincial boutique village, 423 provincial green villages (forest villages), 70 beautiful rural demonstration villages, and 128 garden (garden) units (communities). The green coverage rate of the built-up area of the county has reached 40.31%, the per capita park green space area is 12.04 square meters, the green coverage rate of towns and towns is 45.87%, and the green coverage rate of villages is 55.40%, basically realizing 300 meters of greenery and 500 meters of gardens, and the people's sense of gain and happiness has been concretely reflected, which has effectively stimulated the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the whole people.
The combination of channel greening, waterfront greening and ecological corridor construction paints a beautiful picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. In accordance with the requirements of "continuous scenery, continuous green chain, and scenery on all roads", 282.3 kilometers of road landscape quality improvement was completed, and the road greening rate was 86.4%. It has focused on building 10 trunk highways and tourist special lines such as G320, and the Longhui section of Shanghai-Kunming Expressway has been selected as the most beautiful green channel in the province. A total of 53 kilometers of waterfront landscape improvement has been completed in the county, and the waterfront greening rate has reached 87.67%.
With the goal of cultivating stable, healthy, high-quality and efficient forest ecosystems and urban forests, and in accordance with the management concept of near-natural forests, the quality of forest ecosystems and urban forest landscapes should be accurately improved. Adhere to the management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands. Comprehensively carry out natural forest protection, multi-functional forest management, water source protection and comprehensive management of river basins, soil and water conservation and soil erosion comprehensive management, rocky desertification comprehensive management and other projects, delineate the ecological protection red line area of 68,418.8 hectares, wetland protection rate of 71.1%, rocky desertification control work has become a nationally renowned "Longhui model", the county soil erosion area has been reduced year by year, the quality of the ecological environment and the level of ecological environmental protection have been further improved, and the level of ecological environment protection has been further improved. Advanced counties in the assessment of ecological and environmental quality at the county level of national key ecological function zones".
Strengthen the tourism industry. It has successfully built 1 national 4A-level scenic spot, 4 3A-level scenic spots, 2 provincial rural tourism key villages, 4 provincial five-star rural tourism areas, and 2 forest health care bases, and has been awarded the titles of China's Best Tourism Resource City Award, National Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism Demonstration County, China's Best Ethnic Customs Tourism County, and Hunan Province's Strong Tourism County.
Actively develop honeysuckle, dragon tooth lily, cypress, camellia, nanzhu and other industrial bases, and won the title of China's honeysuckle hometown, China's honeysuckle, dragon's tooth lily characteristic industry capital, etc. There are 30 large-scale forest products enterprises cultivated in the county, including 10 provincial forestry leading enterprises, 2 provincial forestry professional cooperatives, and 1 provincial forest economic demonstration base.
The mountains have become greener, more beautiful, and there are beautiful pictures everywhere.