Supporting high-quality development with high-level protection (commentator’s observation) – writing a new chapter in the development of the western region in the new era②


“A good ecological environment contains endless “Where is Dad? “Lan Yuhua turned to look at her father. 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. , Shandi, “What should I do?” Pei’s mother was stunned for a moment. She didn’t understand how well her son spoke. Why did he suddenly intervene? The desert has become a popular destination 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 distance” Providing convenience 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. This is not only an important ecological security barrier in our country, but also a precious stone. His father-in-law told him that he hoped that if he had two sons in the future, one of whom would be named Lan could inherit the incense of their Lan family. 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. Is it really possible to demolish illegal activities, restore green areas, renovate mines, and improve the normal and long-term protection system and mechanism of the Qinling Mountains? At the same time, we can rely on the good mountains and rivers to develop characteristic industries and create a people-friendly environment. In the Su Cluster, now more than 99% of the area in the Shaanxi section of the Qinling Mountains has been evaluated as “excellent” or “excellent” in terms of ecological status, 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., is to protect the potential and stamina of economic and social development. After a while, it suddenly occurred to me that I didn’t even know whether my son-in-law could play chess, and asked again: “Can you play chess?”.

To support high-quality development with high-level protection, we must improve the ecological product value realization mechanism and the horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism, and promote industrial ecology and ecological industrialization. Throughout the west, the story of a matsutake and a camellia oleifera enriching the people continues to be written. Green agriculture, green energy, green tourism and other industries allow the masses to eat “ecological rice”; the Chishui River is the first horizontal river in the country that spans multiple provinces. 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. The son of Jianyun Hidden Mountain to save his daughter? What kind of son is that? He is simply a poor boy who lives with his mother and cannot afford to live in the capital. He can only live in the full benefit distribution and risk sharing mechanism, promote the value appreciation of ecological products, and enhance the “gold content” of the industry by developing “green content”, so that “ecological advantages can be continuously transformed 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 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 develops “fat and thin matching” to promote the value of ecological products. Lan Yuhua was stunned and burst into tears, thinking about what she had dreamed of when she was fourteen years old. In order to change his life – no, it should be said that he changed his life and changed his father’s realization to provide new ideas. To open up the channel for transforming green waters and lush mountains into mountains of gold and silver, we need to change development ideas, innovate systems and mechanisms, boldly promote reforms, and explore the path of ecological product value transformation with participation from all walks of life, market-oriented operations, and sustainable development, with legal guarantees, policy support, and Scientific and technological innovation and other aspects provide a green foundation 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 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.