The report says that we do this 丨 guard this forest and build dreams in the green mountains

"The construction of ecological civilization is in the contemporary era, and the benefits are in the thousands of autumns." We must treat the ecological environment like life, let the mountains and forests be dyed, the plains blue and green blend, the urban and rural birds and flowers, and let the ecological beauty always stay in the Central Plains! ”

——Summary of the report of the Eleventh Provincial Party Congress

□ Henan Daily reporter Liu Xiaoyang

In late autumn and early winter, the state-owned shopping mall Huangbaishan Forest Farm is full of forests and scenery everywhere. On November 6th, when the sky was bright, Zhou Qiyu, the director of the Daniushan Resource Management and Protection Station, began a busy day.

At present, it is a critical moment for forest fire prevention, and the rangers of the Huangbai Mountain Forest Farm are increasing their daily patrols to check for fire hazards and ensure forest safety.

Because it was Saturday, there were many more tourists in the forest farm than usual, and Zhou Qiyu had to go to the Yellow Cedar Mountain Grand Canyon Scenic Area for daily patrol. "It's crowded here, and fire prevention propaganda works best." While distributing warm reminder cards to tourists, Zhou Qiyu introduced to reporters, "Smoking in the mountains, heating and cooking, is the most likely to cause fires, and when we encounter tourists who bring fire seeds to the mountains, we will dissuade them in time." ”

Huangbaishan Forest Farm is located in the hinterland of Dabie Mountain at the junction of the three provinces of Yu'e and Anhui. After 65 years of hard work by three generations of foresters, it has become the forest farm with the highest forest coverage rate, the largest concentrated contiguous plantation area, the best forest phase and the largest accumulation of living standing wood in the province.

In 1987, Zhou Qiyu took over the baton from his father and became a "second generation of Lin", witnessing the development and changes of Huangbaishan for more than 30 years. Since 2018, Huangbaishan Forest Farm has actively explored new paths for the transformation of ecological values, and while protecting the green mountains and rivers on the one hand, vigorously develop eco-tourism, forest health, culture and education, sports and leisure and other industries. In July this year, the Huangbaishan Ecological Civilization Education Base was unveiled, creating a "four cadres" spiritual teaching point of "dare to work, work hard, work hard, and work smartly", carry out ecological civilization education, and attract many enterprises and institutions, social groups, colleges and universities to carry out research and study.

Zhou Qiyu has also transformed into a new era ranger, shuttling through the forest every day, in addition to forest care and cutting, he also regularly carries out tourist road cleaning, and tells tourists and researchers the story of forestry, forest farms, forest trees, and foresters.

"Now the conditions on the mountain are much better than before, my father used to walk all the way out of the mountain with his feet, and now the road is open, and you can ride a motorcycle anywhere." Zhou Qiyu is very satisfied with his current life.

Referring to the just-concluded Eleventh Provincial Party Congress, Zhou Qiyu said with deep feeling: "Green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, carry forward the spirit of arduous afforestation in the early days of the father's construction, and developing and making good use of this forest is the greatest contribution." ”