Source: People's Daily
The Nine-Curved Yellow River, with its cascading waves and flood waves, starts from the roof of the world and flows through 9 provinces and regions in China, and flows into the sea day and night.
On October 22, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on in-depth promotion of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in Jinan City, Shandong Province, and delivered an important speech.
"Protecting the Yellow River is a great plan for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and sustainable development." At the symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin held more than two years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that promoting the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin is not a day's work.
The length of more than 5,000 kilometers and the history of millions of years outline the time and space trajectory of a great river; the water flow is turbulent, and the history is vast, casting the spirit and soul of a nation.
This mother river carries a heavy weight in the heart of General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Painting - "No matter how busy you are, the Yellow River problem still needs to be arranged to seriously study it"
The Yellow River, the root of the Chinese nation. For thousands of years, it has nourished and nourished the descendants of Yanhuang and bred the splendid civilization of the Chinese nation.
The Yellow River, the worry of the Chinese nation. Once upon a time, the wild and wild rivers brought deep disasters to the people along the coast.
"Huang hening, the world is peaceful". From ancient times to the present, the governance of the Yellow River has been a major event in an ann min xingbang.
"No matter how busy we are, we still need to arrange time to seriously study the Yellow River issue, and the Party Central Committee attaches great importance to this issue." Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly inspected the ecological protection and development of the Yellow River Basin, and his footprints are all concerns, leading the way for the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.
Looking back at the past, a profound gaze penetrates the clouds of history - "In a sense, the history of the Chinese nation's governance of the Yellow River is also a history of governing the country." ”
In September 2019, at the Yellow River Museum in Zhengzhou, Henan, General Secretary Xi Jinping gazed at a map of the Yellow River diversion for a long time. A string of figures makes the long history of the Yellow River jump on the paper, telling the new life of the ancient Yellow River: According to statistics, in the more than 2500 years before the founding of New China, the lower reaches of the Yellow River overflowed more than 1,500 times and changed courses 26 times; since the founding of New China, it has been undecided for 70 years, continuously flowing for 20 years, and has resisted 12 major floods.
From the establishment of a river control committee for the Yellow River, to the successive large-scale embankment construction, to the clear idea of "giving priority to water conservation, spatial balance, systematic governance, and two-handed force" to control water... Practice has proved that only under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and giving play to the advantages of the socialist system can we truly realize the historic transformation of the Yellow River governance from passive to active, and fundamentally change the tragic situation of the Yellow River's three-year two-year breakout. ”
Looking at the present, profound thinking contains dialectics - "Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the economic and social development of the Yellow River Basin and the lives of the people have undergone great changes", "At the same time, we must also soberly see that there are still some outstanding difficulties and problems in the Yellow River Basin".
What's the sticking point? General Secretary Xi Jinping once sorted out that the risk of flooding is still the biggest threat to the river basin, the ecological environment of the river basin is fragile, the situation of water resources security is grim, and the quality of development needs to be improved. "These problems are manifested in the Yellow River and have their roots in the river basin."
What's the solution? "Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain."
Looking at the future, long-term thinking points out the way forward - "The development along the Yellow River must have a sense of the overall situation, consider from the perspective of the country and the overall situation, and firmly establish the idea of 'one game of chess'." ”
In September 2019, with the convening of the Symposium on Ecological Protection and High-quality Development of the Yellow River Basin, the chessboard of coordinated regional development fell another key, "The ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin are a major national strategy, just like the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta." ”
The new chapter of the Great River is depicted from this moment on.
Concept - "We must persist in protection in development and development in protection"
"I once said that the Yangtze River is sick, and it is not lightly ill. Today I would like to say that the Yellow River has always been weak and sickly, and floods are frequent. "In August 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping took the pulse of the Yellow River during his inspection in Gansu.
The disease of the Yellow River is a profound warning of the relationship between man and nature, economic development and ecological protection.
How to reconcile the contradictions between man and nature? How to break through the bottleneck encountered by economic development?
In the heart of General Secretary Xi Jinping, there is such a "wealth concept": ecology is resources and wealth, and it is our treasure.
"We must persist in protecting and developing in the course of development, and we must not separate the protection of the ecological environment from economic development, let alone oppose each other."
Due to the policy of disease, the governance of the Yellow River should not only have a change in the landscape, but also a change in concept.
"Yu Zhi's decision is also due to water as a teacher." General Secretary Xi Jinping once used the example of Dayu Zhishui to warn people that the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin should respect the law and abandon the impulsive idea of conquering water and conquering nature.
In October 2020, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the Outline of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development Plan, which has become a programmatic document guiding the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin at present and for a period in the future, which can be described as a good medicine.
Adhere to the correct ecological and development concept - "promote the transformation of the Yellow River Basin from excessive intervention and over-utilization to natural restoration and recuperation", "we must take the protection of the long-term peace and stability of the Yellow River as the top priority" "Comprehensively rectify soil erosion, steadily improve the capacity of water conservation, and promote the conservation, intensive and efficient use of water resources"... A thousand plans, a concern. After several inspections of the Yellow River Basin, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave a good policy to let the mother river of the Chinese nation always maintain its vitality.
For a long time, we should calculate the "overall account" of the economy and society -- the general secretary earnestly instructed: "The utilitarian interests of the Yellow River should be calculated for a hundred years and a thousand years, and we should not be in a hurry or sloppy." ”
Goal - "Let the Yellow River benefit the people"
A mother river of the Chinese nation has left countless poems for thousands of years. The magnificence of "the water of the Yellow River is not seen in the sky", the vastness of the "Yellow River is far above the white clouds", and the majesty of "the sun is at the end of the mountain, and the Yellow River flows into the sea" are still praised from generation to generation. Man and river, in the long years of coexistence.
"Doing a good job in ecological civilization is not only related to economic and social development, but also directly related to the people's happiness and the healthy growth of young people, which is the consensus and voice of the broad masses of the people."
In March 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was researching and guiding in Lankao, Henan Province, made a special trip to the first section of the East Dam of the Yellow River to understand the production and living conditions of the masses in the beach area; in August 2019, the General Secretary stressed during his inspection in Gansu: "Let the Yellow River become a happy river that benefits the people"; in May 2020, the General Secretary inspected the governance of the second largest tributary of the Yellow River in Shanxi, pointing out that it is necessary to "enhance the sense of gain, happiness and security of the people of Taiyuan"... Governing the river, General Secretary Xi Jinping's eyes have always fallen on the people's yearning for a better life.
By 2030, "the people's lives in the basin will be more abundant, and the sense of gain, happiness and security will be significantly enhanced"; by 2035, "the people's living standards will be significantly improved"... The development goals of the "Outline of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development Plan" have repeatedly mentioned the people. Properly managing the Yellow River is related to the happiness of the people.
"We must maintain historical patience and strategic determination, and in order to achieve success, we do not have to have my historical responsibility in my spiritual realm and achievements, we must not only plan for the long term, but also work in the present, draw a blueprint to the end, stubble after stubble, and let the Yellow River benefit the people." General Secretary Xi Jinping's words are long-hearted.
The symposium on in-depth promotion of ecological protection of the Yellow River Basin was held, and the deep feelings of "people first" were consistent: "Set goals, be down-to-earth, immerse yourself in hard work, work hard for a long time, ensure that the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period achieve obvious results, and make unremitting efforts for the Yellow River to benefit the Chinese nation forever."
Planner: Du Shanze
Author: Lin Xiaoxi, Xu Haicang
Image source: Xinhua News Agency (Photo: Li Xueren, Wang Ye; Coordinator: Bi Xiaoyang, Yu Dongsheng)