“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. Needless to say, this place is an important ecological repair site in our country. Caiyi’s willingness surprised her because she was originally a second-class maid served by her mother. However, she took the initiative to follow her to the Pei family, which was poorer than the Lan family, and she couldn’t figure it out. A safety barrier is also a treasure house of precious 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 stated the importance of the “six persistences”. Is this really the case? One of the requirements is that “we must insist on supporting high-quality development with high-level protection and build a solid national ecological security barrier.” To promote the western region to further form a new pattern of large-scale protection, large-scale opening up, and high-quality development, we need to put ecological and environmental protection as an important position to 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. 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 should rely on the good mountains and rivers to develop characteristic industries and create a B&B cluster. If you reply to this matter, you will leave with the Qin family business group the next day. His father-in-law and mother-in-law were so anxious that he was speechless. Today, more than 99% of the ecological status of the Shaanxi section of the Qinling Mountains has been evaluated as “excellent” or “excellent”, 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 values and value-added natural resources.The purpose is to protect the potential and stamina for economic and social development.
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. By improving the profit distribution and 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 generate electricity through abandoned mines. “Please start from the beginning and tell me what you know about my husband,” she said. Promote industrial development through ecological restoration 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 that transforms green waters and green mountains into gold and silver mountains, we need to change our development thinking, innovate systems and mechanisms, boldly promote reforms, and explore the participation of all walks of life and the city’s consent. First of all, it was too sudden. Secondly, it is unknown whether he and Lan Yuhua are destined to be a lifelong couple. It’s too far away to have a baby now. The value transformation path of ecological products with 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 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.
“People’s Daily” (Page 05, May 15, 2024)