“A good ecological environment contains infinite economic value.” For the western region, increasing ecological and environmental protection is not only a mission, but also an advantage of high-quality development
By developing the “green content” to enhance the “gold content” of the industry, we can “continuously transform ecological advantages into development advantages”
During the May Day holiday, the tourism market in the western region continues to be booming. Traveling through Guizhou, you can see the sparkling Xiao Qikong and the flower-filled Fanjing Mountain. When visiting Guangxi, you can see white dolphins accompanying boats in Sanniang Bay, Qinzhou, and people chasing the sea gather along the mangroves of the North Sea. Walking in Xinjiang, you can see the many rivers and lakes. , mountains, and deserts have become popular destinations for tourists for cross-country cycling and outdoor camping…Many western provinces rely on good ecology to expand new space for cultural tourism and “build tourism and other service industries into regional pillar industries” to provide tourists with “poetry” and distant places” provides convenience and also injects vitality into economic development, writing a vivid chapter in which “ecological appearance” becomes “economic output value” and “beautiful scenery” becomes “development prospects”.
The western region is the main source of my country’s major rivers and is a concentrated distribution area of forests, grasslands, wetlands and lakes. It’s the same here for me. But before I convinced my parents to withdraw their decision to divorce, Brother Sehun didn’t have the face to see you, so I endured it until now, until our marriage ends. This important ecological safety barrier is also precious. A treasure house of ecological resources, only by properly handling the relationship between development and protection can we achieve high-quality development. Recently, at the symposium on promoting the development of the western region in the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly put forward the major requirements of “six persistences”, one of which is “to insist on supporting high-quality development with high-level protection and building a solid national ecological security barrier. “To promote the further formation of a new pattern of great protection, great openness, and high-quality development in the western region, we need to put ecological and environmental protection in an important position and achieve coordinated advancement of high-quality development and high-level protection.
“High-quality development and high-level protection are complementary and complement each other.” High-level protection is an important support for high-quality development. High-quality development that prioritizes ecology, green and low carbon can only be achieved by relying on high-level protection. The ecological butterfly change in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province is a vivid example. This majestic mountain range, which “harmonizes the north and south, and covers the world”, was once invaded, especially the villas built illegally and illegally, which are like scars and hurt people’s hearts. Demolition of illegal works, restoration of green areas, remediation of mines, and improvement of the normal and long-term protection system and mechanism of the Qinling Mountains. At the same time, relying on the good mountains and good water to develop characteristic industries and create a B&B cluster, the ecological status of the Shaanxi section of the Qinling Mountains is now evaluated as “excellent” and “excellent” grade area has exceeded 99%, and the road to green and low-carbon transformation is getting wider and wider. This shows that “a good ecological environment contains infinite economic value.” For the western region, increasing ecological and environmental protection is not only a mission, but also an advantage of high-quality development. Protecting the ecological environment means protecting natural value and value-added natural capital, as well as protecting the potential and stamina for economic and social development.
To support high-quality development with high-level protection, we must improve the ecologyProduct value realization mechanism and horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism promote industrial ecology and ecological industrialization. Throughout the west, the story of a matsutake and a piece of Camellia oleifera enriching the people continues to be written. Green agriculture, green energy, green tourism and other industries allow the people to eat “ecological rice”; Chishui River is the first horizontal river in the country that spans multiple provincial river basins. The pilot ecological compensation mechanism has accumulated experience for the country to explore the establishment of an ecological compensation mechanism across multiple provinces; Inner Mongolia is focusing on building a diversified investment mechanism to manage the Kubuqi Desert, and actively mobilizes enterprises and social forces to participate in ecological construction. Sound distribution of benefits and wind never happened? By establishing a risk-sharing mechanism, promoting the value appreciation of ecological products, and improving the “gold content” of the industry by developing “green content”, we can “continuously transform ecological advantages into development advantages.”
The key to realizing the transformation of “two mountains” lies in people and ideas. Gejiu, Yunnan, was once the “Tin Capital of the World”, but later faced development difficulties due to depletion of mineral resources. In 2022, the Gejiu City nonferrous metal mining area development project was included in the second batch of ecological environment-oriented development (EOD) model pilots. Taking this as an opportunity, the local area began to promote industrial development through ecological restoration of abandoned mines and construction of circular economy industrial parks. The EOD model promotes the effective integration of ecological environment management projects with poor returns and related industries with better returns, and the development of “fat and thin mix” provides new ideas for promoting the realization of the value of ecological products. To open up the channel for transforming green waters and green mountains into gold and silver mountains, we need to change our development thinking, innovate systems and mechanisms, boldly promote reforms, explore the participation of all walks of life, and promote the city’s development. “What a beautiful bride! Look, our best man was stunned and couldn’t bear to blink. “Xiniang said with a smile. The ecological product value transformation path of market-based operation and sustainable development uses legal guarantee, policy support, scientific and technological innovation, etc. to polish the green background for high-quality development.
People do not let down the green mountains, and the green mountains certainly do not let down people. Since the implementation of the Western Development Strategy, more than 320 million acres of farmland have been converted into forests and grasslands. The forest coverage rate has increased significantly. The main branches of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River have reached Class II water quality, and the green territory has continued to expand. We must work hard and accelerate, optimize the development and protection pattern of land and space, strengthen the protection of ecological resources, and vigorously promote the energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of traditional industries. We will surely be able to transform ecological dividends into development dividends and promote the coordination and unification of economic development and ecological protection. Let the achievements of ecological civilization construction benefit the people and benefit future generations.