Data map: Zhejiang Kaihua Qianjiangyuan National Park. Photo by Zhang Guoyou
Kaihua, May 10 (China News Network) (Reporter Zhang Bin, trainee reporter Wang Xuying) You may not know Majinxi, but you must know the Qiantang River - the Tide of the Qianjiang River is famous all over the world, and the nickname of this river has even become the name of Zhejiang Province.
Majin Creek, located in Kaihua County, Quzhou City, province, is one of the sources of the Qiantang River. This year, Kaihua, a mountainous county in western Zhejiang that is proud of its "Qianjiangyuan," has set a goal of "not small in tone": "to build a socialist modern national park city." Giving your future a name, what is the origin of the enlightenment?
Three ancient monuments witness the "ecological gene"
Recently, Lu Xiaguang, secretary of the Kaihua County PARTY Committee, introduced the story of the local "three ancient monuments" to reporters:
At present, there are three well-preserved ancient stele in Kaihua, the earliest year is from the "Forbidden Mining Monument" from more than 450 years ago and the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and two ancient stele are from the Qianlong and Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty, which are the "Yinmu Forbidden Monument" and the "Release River Monument". These ancient monuments have been eroded by wind and rain for a hundred years, witnessing the ecological persistence of "harmonious coexistence between man and nature" in the local area.
"From the beginning of the Neolithic civilization 4500 years ago, for thousands of years, the people at the source of the Qianjiang River who rose at sunrise and sunset have always had the nature of loving nature, conforming to nature and advocating nature in their veins." Lu Xiaguang said.
A recent story related to this occurred on February 18 this year. On the first day of work after the Spring Festival holiday, a 40-year-old "tree planting and New Year's Greeting" activity was held in Kaihua.
In 1982, the leading group of the then Kaihua County Party Committee reached a consensus: the mountainous county hopes to be in the mountain, the potential is in the mountain, and it must take afforestation as the key work of the whole county to grasp it to the end, so as to realize that "the green mountains are always there and benefit future generations".
Over the past 40 years, the secretary of the Kaihua County Party Committee has changed one term after another, but the tradition of taking the lead in planting trees on the first day of work has not been lost. Today, as a national ecological county, the forest stock of Kaihua has increased from 4.915 million cubic meters to 12.69 million cubic meters, and the forest coverage rate has reached 80.9%.
Kaihua's adherence to ecology has been determined in the form of planning. In 2014, Kaihua became one of the 28 pilot cities and counties in the country. Since that year, under the joint promotion of the state, provinces, cities and counties, Kaihua has lasted four years to "find out the bottom of the family" and initially determine the upper limit of development.
During the planning period, the total developable area of the county is 152 square kilometers, and the ecological space has been greatly increased from 50.8% to 80.43%, of which 252 square kilometers have been used as the pilot area of Qianjiangyuan National Park - its extremely rich biodiversity has become the meritorious medal of Kaihua, the "ecological guardian of Qianjiangyuan".
Walking into Qianjiangyuan National Park is like walking into a huge biological gene pool:
It still preserves the world's rare large-scale low-altitude native evergreen broad-leaved forest zonal vegetation, which is one of the 35 priority areas for biodiversity conservation in China, with three rare ancient tree communities of fragrant fruit trees, wild laughing and southern ziwei, with a large number of distributions that are rare in the country.
It is also the global concentration distribution area of China's unique national first-level key protected wild animals black chamois and white-necked long-tailed pheasant, of which the number of black chamois is as high as 500-800, accounting for about 10% of the total global distribution, and a large number of 43 kinds of national second-level key protected wild animals such as white storks, black bears, and small civet cats breed and live here...
Data map: Hangzhou Xinjing Huangqu Nankaihua Interconnection. Photo by Zhang Guoyou
Reshaping the "ecological landscape" in the context of openness
As the only national park pilot area in the Yangtze River Delta region, Qianjiangyuan National Park has a strong attraction for urban residents in the "cement forest". If we look at Kaihua from a high altitude, the ecological pattern of the open development of "Zhejiang's West Gate" has become more and more obvious.
Located at the junction of seven counties in zhejiang, Anhui and Gansu provinces, Kaihua, jingwuhuang, G3 huangqunan, Hangxin Jingquzhou section and other highways pass through the territory. At present, it has continuously promoted the construction of a number of transportation facilities such as the fifth channel of the Hangzhou-Quzhou high-speed rail connection line, the general airport, and the Hangzhou Chunkai Expressway, and is entering the "one-hour traffic circle" in Zhejiang Province, the marginal "one-hour traffic circle" in Zhejiang, Anhui and Gansu provinces, and the "two-hour traffic circle" in the Yangtze River Delta.
In recent years, the number of guests seeking green water and green mountains at the source of the Qianjiang River has been increasing. In 2020, Kaihua County received a total of 12.024 million tourists and achieved tourism revenue of 8.78 billion yuan.
In addition, the concept of "national park city" is also a profound reflection of the global ecological pattern of mountainous counties.
Looking abroad, in 2013, geographer and National Geographic explorer Daniel Raven-Ellison proposed the concept of "National Park City"; in 2019, London officially became the world's first national park city... Looking at China, in 2018, under the important instructions and instructions of "highlighting the characteristics of park cities and taking ecological values into account", Chengdu, Sichuan Province, began to actively explore...
In 2021, Kaihua proposed in the local "Proposal for the 14th Five-Year Plan and the Long-term Goals for 2035" that the overall goal for the next five years is to "build a socialist modern national park city" – thus becoming the first county-level city in the country to propose such ideas and goals.
Lu Xiaguang said that "National Park City" is a global ecological urban-rural community that relies on national parks to achieve green, healthy and sustainable development, a new model for the construction of ecological civilization, a new form of future urban development, a new path to achieve common prosperity, will lead the new direction of urban construction, reshape the new value of the city, and strive to explore and build a new urban demonstration area at the county level to practice the new development concept.
The scene of the 2021 Kaihua National Park Urban Symposium. Photo by Wang Xuying
Further into the future: enhancing ecological value
2021 is the first year of the construction of a civilized national park city. The new goal is not a small challenge for the civilization of the region that belongs to Zhejiang's accelerated development.
In the early morning of May 8, Kaihua party and government officials, including Lu Xiaguang, secretary of the Kaihua County CPC Committee, And Mao Xianming, deputy secretary of the Kaihua County CPC Committee and county magistrate, rushed to Hangzhou to listen to an afternoon of discussions by experts and scholars from Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University and other colleges and universities at the 2021 Kaihua National Park City Symposium, and strive to better move towards the overall goal of "National Park City".
In view of the concept of "national park city", Zhuang Youbo, vice president of the National Park Research Institute of Tsinghua University and deputy secretary general of the World Heritage Expert Committee of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, believes that the national park city is a comprehensive application of the two concepts of national parks and park cities, and the main purpose is to achieve the coordination of high-level protection and high-quality development, which has positive and innovative significance.
The national park and the surrounding area are inextricably linked in terms of culture and economy, so the coordinated development of the region is necessary.
In the view of Shi Minjun, director of the Xiong'an Development Center of Zhejiang University and director of the Department of Urban Development and Management of the School of Public Administration, the construction of a national park city should be integrated with gardens and gardens.
"The fundamental purpose of building a park city is to achieve harmonious coexistence between the city and nature." Wu Wen, deputy chief engineer of the Landscape Institute of the China Academy of Planning and deputy secretary-general of the Garden and Ecology Branch of the China Survey and Design Association, proposed that the city is a great invention of mankind and the future home of mankind.
It suggests that under the concept of park city, in order to meet the growing needs of the people for outdoor public life and meet the demands of urban renewal and transformation and development, it is necessary to take parks and open spaces as the main carrier, take the integration and symbiosis of urban parks as typical spatial characteristics, and coordinate various elements such as ecology, land use, landscape, business formats, and activity organizations, so as to build a variety of types of parked urban imagery, create a high-quality urban environment, and lead the promotion of urban transformation and development.
Lu Xiaguang said that Kaihua will take Qianjiangyuan National Park as the core, build multi-level ecological corridors, promote the organic integration of national park forms and urban space, create a composite system of production and living ecological space, natural economy, society and humanities, and help build a national park urban spatial pattern of national park + 5A county + 4A market town + 3A countryside + beautiful pastoral lake and river.
According to the data, the gross ecosystem product (GEP) of Kaihua County exceeded 70 billion yuan, and the green development index ranked in the top 20 in Zhejiang Province. According to the plan, in 2025, Kaihua will basically build a national park city, and by 2035, it will be fully built into a national park city, and truly realize the "regionalization of national parks and the urban and rural parks of counties".
"Entering the new era of enlightenment, decoding national park cities, and building national park cities, we have unlimited expectations." Lu Xiaguang said. (End)
Source: China News Network