Xinjiang Aksu achieves "win-win" between ecology and enrichment of the people

Source: Workers Daily Client

Original title: Xinjiang Aksu achieves "win-win" between ecology and enrichment of the people

Workers Daily-Zhonggong Network reporter Wu Duosi correspondent Liu Hongwen

It is apple picking season, and walking into Yukak Baridang Village, Yiganqi Township, Aksu City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, fruit farmer Zhao Hongguang is busy picking apples, and his face is full of harvest joy. "This year's apples are growing well, and the yield and price are high." Zhao Hongguang said that his family's apples are in short supply, with an average income of 20,000 yuan per mu. Zhao Hongguang began to plant apples in 1994, when the ecological environment was not good, every spring when the fruit trees bloomed, the wind and sand were full of sand, the fruit hanging rate was low, and there was no money at all year round. "Now it's better, there is less sand and wind, and the fruit yield is high and the quality is good." Zhao Hongguang said that these are all visible benefits brought by ecological construction to fruit farmers.

Over the years, the Aksu region has adhered to the strategic positioning of building an ecological governance demonstration zone, coordinated the management of the grass and sand system of landscapes, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, continued to strengthen ecological environmental protection and restoration, expanded urban and rural green spaces, and turned deserts into oases. The sand and dust weather in various counties (cities) has decreased, the annual rainfall has increased, and the area of oases has continued to expand. This is the result of the region's active practice of the concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", in-depth promotion of ecological civilization construction, and the continuous release of ecological dividends.

In the past five years, the planting area of forest fruits in Aksu region has stabilized at 4.5 million mu, the fruit output has increased from 2.04 million tons to 2.4559 million tons, the output value has increased from 12.3 billion yuan to 15.646 billion yuan, and the per capita income of farmers has increased from 4345 yuan to 5121 yuan. With the improvement of the ecological environment, not only the local traditional forest fruit industry has improved quality and efficiency, but also many characteristic small forest fruits have also risen rapidly. Walking into a facility agricultural demonstration base in Gobi New Village, Kekeya Town, Wensu County, the greenhouses of the sun are warm as spring, and the fruit farmers are busy planting and managing cherry trees. "In the past, this was the Gobi Desert, but now it has become a rich garden, and only the cherry is planted, and the annual income of each greenhouse has reached 300,000 yuan." Fruit farmer Wen Jianzong said. In recent years, the Aksu region has made full use of the achievements in the construction of ecological civilization to create high-quality routes such as sightseeing tours, picking tours, walking tours, and folk custom tours, promoting the development of the ecological leisure tourism service industry in the whole region, and creating a "green bank" for villagers to increase their income and become rich.

Editor-in-Charge: Miao Chen