"I have always been very concerned about the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, and when I come here today, I have walked along the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River."
From the source of the three rivers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the mouth of the Yellow River, more than 4,000 meters from the altitude difference, more than 5,400 kilometers from the length of the Yellow River, and more than 5,000 years from the history of Chinese civilization. The vast time and space are all in this sentence when General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the mouth of the Yellow River on the afternoon of October 20.
"Promote the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin and create a good Yellow River chorus in the new era!" General Secretary Xi Jinping has inspected the Yellow River many times in the past few years. Solidly promoting the great protection of the Yellow River and ensuring the peace and tranquility of the Yellow River is a major matter in governing the country. In the heart of the general secretary, the chorus of the Yellow River in the new era is symphonic.
More than 700 days. This is the interval between the symposium on promoting the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin hosted by General Secretary Xi Jinping in Jinan, Shandong Province, on October 22, 2021, and the symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin hosted in Zhengzhou, Henan province on September 18, 2019.
In the past two years, the changes in ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin have been profound. General Secretary Xi Jinping has also visited Shanxi, Ningxia and other places to investigate and investigate the ecological protection of the Yellow River Basin. According to the deployment of the Party Central Committee, all work has been intensively carried out, and the "four beams and eight pillars" of the protection and governance of the Yellow River have been built, the ecological and environmental problems have been rectified, the ecological protection and restoration has been promoted, the governance system has been improved, and new progress has been made in high-quality development.
The symposium held in Jinan this time is a remobilization, and there are many new deployments. The four words "in-depth promotion" in the name of the symposium show that this national strategy has advanced in depth and in depth.
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For the "in-depth promotion" of this national strategy, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again put forward clear requirements, we must "unswervingly take the modernization road of ecological priority and green development" and "take great protection as a key task", and propose to fight the "three tough battles" of environmental problem rectification, deep water conservation and water control, and ecological protection and restoration, and promote the "three changes" of quality change, efficiency change and power change of economic development in the river basin.
"Ensure that the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period achieve remarkable results, and make unremitting efforts for the Yellow River to always benefit the Chinese nation." The general secretary stressed that the "14th Five-Year Plan" is a critical period for promoting the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, and it is necessary to grasp the implementation of major tasks and strive to see a new atmosphere as soon as possible.
Between the two forums, in the event of a major epidemic that has ravaged the world, we have coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic development, won the battle against poverty, and achieved a well-off society in an all-round way.
In just over two years, the world has changed.
As President Xi Jinping emphasized at the UN Biodiversity Summit, the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that man and nature are a community of common destiny. We must make concerted efforts, step up action, protect in development, develop in protection, and build a beautiful home in harmony with all things.
On the afternoon of October 20, General Secretary Xi Jinping listened to the report on the situation of the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve and inspected the ecological environment of the Yellow River Delta wetland along the wooden boardwalk. He stressed that in the new journey of realizing the second centenary goal, it is necessary to adhere to ecological priority and green development, carry forward the concept of ecological civilization, and add glory and color to socialist modernization.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the symposium is full of dialectics: "Accurately grasp the relationship between protection and development", "Coordinate the two major issues of development and security, and improve the ability to prevent and respond to risks", "Grasp the overall and local relations", "Grasp the current and long-term relations"...
The symposium proposed to attach great importance to the complex and profound impact of global climate change, actively respond from the perspective of security, comprehensively improve the level of disaster prevention and control, and protect the safety of people's lives.
The impact of global climate change on the ecological environment and economic development should be taken into account in the ecological protection and high-quality development strategy of the Yellow River Basin.
Since late July, parts of the Yellow River Basin have suffered rare floods. In the autumn, "La Niña" led to an earlier cold winter, and the northern hemisphere faced the pressure of peak demand for coal power.
There is a lot of coal in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and there are oil fields in Dongying, so it is necessary to consider ecological security and energy security as a whole. It is necessary to pay close attention to the adjustment of the energy production structure and eliminate backward production capacity with large carbon emissions, but also to ensure the stability of coal and electricity supply and ensure the operation of the economy and society.
Therefore, at this symposium, the general secretary stressed that "it is necessary to promote the energy revolution and stabilize energy supply."
At the Shengli Oilfield Exploration and Development Research Institute, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into the shale oil laboratory and the carbon dioxide gas flooding laboratory to listen to the introduction of the oilfield's adherence to independent innovation, accelerating the application of technical research, and ensuring national energy security.
The general secretary stressed in this inspection and investigation that China, as a big manufacturing country, wants to develop the real economy, and the rice bowl of energy must be in its own hands.
At the mouth of the Yellow River, General Secretary Xi Jinping has hundreds of millions of people up and down the great river in his heart.
The Outline of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development Plan covers about 1.3 million square kilometers in 9 provinces and regions, with a population of about 160 million.
The provinces and regions in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River are underdeveloped areas, and there is a significant gap compared with the eastern region and the Yangtze River Basin, the pace of transformation and upgrading of traditional industries is lagging behind, the endogenous power is insufficient, and the difference in per capita regional GDP between Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai and Dongying City in Shandong Province at the mouth of the sea is more than 10 times.
The "Outline of The Planning for Ecological Protection and High-quality Development of the Yellow River Basin" issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council points out that due to geographical conditions and other constraints, the degree of economic ties between the provinces and regions along the Yellow River has always been low, the sense of regional division of labor and cooperation is not strong, and the efficient and coordinated development mechanism is still not perfect.
Ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin should strengthen the coordination and cooperation of the whole basin and become a strategic action to narrow the development gap between the north and the south.
On the afternoon of the 20th, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the mouth of the Yellow River and looked out over the railing.
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The Yellow River is thousands of miles away, and the rushing current is stirring. Starting from the Bayankara Mountains, the trickle merges into rolling waves, breaking through the barrier of ten thousand mountains all the way, rushing and stirring, turning the peak circuit, and persevering.
General Secretary Xi Jinping once said: "The reason why the river can break through the cliff and seize the pass is because it has accumulated the great power of the flood that rushes for thousands of miles and returns to the river." ”
The Yellow River enters the sea, and the yellow and blue confluence is incomparably magnificent. The yellow river, the blue sea and the green development are the symphony of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.
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