From the origin of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, out of canyons, plastic plains, Jubaichuan, into the Bohai Sea, the Yellow River rushes 5464 kilometers, flowing through 9 provinces, drawing "a few" glyphs.
The Yellow River Basin is an important ecological barrier in our country, but also an important area of population activity and economic development.
Since the 18th Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping has traveled the upper middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, held colloquiums three times around the major national strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.
In accordance with the grand blueprint drawn by General Secretary Xi Jinping, we focus on strengthening ecological environmental governance in the Yellow River Basin, optimizing water allocation, promoting high-quality development across the basin and improving people's lives.
In the first half of this year, the total value of imports and exports in 9 provinces of Yellow River Basin reached 3.12 trillion yuan, a record high of 14.3% in the same period, accounting for 8.2% of the country's total growth.
"Together to seize great protection, collaboratively promote big governance", the new era "Yellow River chorus" is even louder.
The Beauty of the River
The beauty of the Yellow River, condensing the beauty of China; the ecological change of the Yellow River, refracting the ecological change of China.
Upstream, Kayang Dorje, head of the Yellow River Township Ecological Conservation Management Station in Mado County, Sanjiangyuan National Park, Sanjiangyuan National Park. Under their guardianship, local black-necked crane hatching rate has increased from 20% at the beginning of this century to more than 95% this year.
Midstream, Swan Lake, Sanmenxia City, Henan, "The big swans coming here to winter have increased from more than 8,000 10 years ago to more than 16,000," said Gao Ruyi, station director of the National Bird Circulation Center.
Downstream, Shandong Dongying City Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve, 233 nest oriental white stork hatched 536 young birds here this year, the breeding number of black-billed gulls is stable at more than 10,000.
From highland wetlands to plain beaches, birds are like "ecological test paper" to measure lush vegetation and clear water quality.
Where did the ecological change come from?
The Yellow River ecosystem is both an organic whole and there are upstream and downstream differences.
Green trees are an example.
The Kambra Global Geopark, located in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai. More than 3,000 meters on both sides of the Yellow River are full of green eyes.
Yan Song, in the middle of the Yellow River, is widely used to manage soil loss. In Jukou Town, Ji County, Linfen City, Shanxi, the mountains of Chejia Mountain are wrapped in greenery.
In Dongying City, Shandong, where the Yellow River enters the sea, originally grown in the upper middle of the river willow, deep roots in the salt-alkaline land, side by side with reeds and alkali ponchos, loom 100 kilometers long "landscape corridor" on the embankment.
Together, we protect the beauty of the river along the Huang region and form a great ecological protection pattern.
Implemented the Yellow River Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, issued an outline of ecological protection and high-quality development plan for the Yellow River Basin.
Sichuan Qinghai-Tibet 3 provinces (districts) 7 cities (states) signed a joint defense joint control cooperation agreement to protect the living water at the source; on both sides of Jinshaan Grand Canyon, Shanxi Shaanxi jointly built the Yellow River Guxian Water Conservancy Hub Project.
Yellow earth plateau from yellow to green, yellow river water clears
Mauusu, Kubuqi, Tenggeri... a patch of sand, desert locked. Tie the grass square, plant soushu tree, a little fixed sandy soil, now, a more than 380 km long and an area of 2.15 million acres of ring oasis forest has been completed.
Mines, beach coating, salt alkaline land... a place of "scar" is being repaired. On the hillside east of Longquan town magnetic kiln gou village in Shenchi county, Shanxi city, Shanxi city, "A few words bend" key ecological attack zone historical abandoned mine ecological restoration demonstration project accelerated implementation.
Sanjiangyuan, Uliang Suhai, Yellow River Delta... a patch of wetland is more beautiful. In Inner Mongolia Uliang Suhai, Liu Wenbin, the former "fishing second generation" now becomes a "seaguard".
Huangshui, Weihe, Fenhe...... A tributary stream is clearer. Xining City, Qinghai, Xining Section III and above excellent water quality ratio reached 100%; Baoji City, Shaanxi, both sides of the Wei River became the ecological corridor of the city; Taiyuan City, Shanxi, 43 km Fenhe Park formed a "green ribbon".
Since the "14th Five-Year", the quality of water in the Yellow River Basin has continued to improve, dry flow reached Class II water quality for 3 consecutive years.
The Yellow River is beautiful and will be more beautiful in the future.
Complicit in the "Great River Rug"
Protect the Yellow River and protect it.
Now, the Yellow River has declined significantly. The amount of sea water into Bohai has increased by about 10% annually. It has been continuously flowing for 26 years.
"Strengthen the global and local relationship, enhance a game of chess awareness" "More focus on protection and governance systemic, holistic, synergistic"...
Collaboratively advancing big governance, a set of important relationships, is "water and sand."
“Yellow” of the Yellow River is inconsistent with water and sand relations. General Secretary Xi Jinping said: “To ensure the long-term stability of the Yellow River, we must cling to the water-sand relations to regulate this ‘bull nose’.”
Cut the sand and set the "line".
On the yellow earth plateau, Gaoxigou village, Yinzhou street, Miali county, Yulin city, Shaanxi province, has long changed its appearance.
A series of China's original "lock sand method" not only made the Yellow River less sand transmission, but also contributed Chinese wisdom to global desertification control.
Net rope grass squares constitute a treaty 153 km long, 10 to 38 km wide protective belt, the Tenggri Desert in Ningxia locked edge; add yellow soil, farm fat, plant apple trees, Inner Mongolia Zonggel flag 60% of "wind change sand, water change mud" arsenic sandstone is managed.
Photographer Lü Guiming’s shot of Kekou Waterfall hides the most intuitive answer: Ten years ago, the waves are now sky-high.
Save water and co-operate on tap.
The Yellow River accounts for 2% of the country's river flow, supporting 12% of the country's population and 17% of arable land water demand.
Xie Jianping, a water conservancy special in Helan County Ligang Town, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, said: "In the past three years, Ligang Town has saved 13 million cubic meters of water.
In the Inner Mongolia River Irrigation District, 53 meters long electronic wall jumps data from 64,000 kilometers of drainage ditches in real time. Through large-scale promotion of yellow drip irrigation, agricultural water consumption fell from 4.33 billion cubic meters in 2020 to 3.96 billion cubic meters in 2024.
From "how many mouths drink how much water" to "how many soup bubbles and how many buns", along the Huang region, the city by water, people by water, to promote water conservation intensification use.
Turn the water down and run “through meridians.”
On June 23, the small wave bottom water conservancy hub in the middle of the Yellow River, the sand cave gate slowly opened, and huge white "water dragons" spewed out. By July 10, 150 million cubic meters of ecological water were injected into the Yellow River Delta wetlands, and 0.32 million tons of mud was sent to the sea.
“Since 2002, the Yellow River Basin has accumulated 32 water diversions.” Lu Jun, vice president of the Planning Research Institute of Yellow River Surveying Planning and Design Research Institute Co., Ltd. said, adding 3.65 billion tons of sand into the sea.
Coordinated Advancing Big Governance, another set of important relationships, is “Dots and Lines.”
The "sickness" of the Yellow River, the appearance is in the Yellow River, the roots are in the watershed. General Secretary Xi Jinping asked for clarity:
How to share water together?
The Yellow River Water Distribution Program of 1987 set the limits for each province. Now you have a balance, I have a demand, and water rights can be bought and sold.
Ningdong Energy Chemical Base in Yinchuan City, only 30 kilometers from the Yellow River, was once without water.
In November 2023, Ningxia acquired the three-year 15 million cubic meters of Yellow River water rights in Sichuan Province for production at Ningdong Energy Chemical Base.
“Rich One”, how is it balanced?
In 2021, Shandong and Henan provinces signed the first horizontal ecological protection compensation agreement of Yellow River River Basin. Since then, the quality of the water in the Yellow River has remained above Class II. By July this year, Henan accumulated 250 million yuan of ecological compensation.
At present, Gansu has signed ecological protection compensation agreements with provinces such as Ningxia, Sichuan, Qinghai, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia.
From “water-sand regulation” to “watershed homogeneity”, the rule of the Great River is also a microcosm of China’s governance.
"Rich of the River"
The Yellow River Basin is an important economic zone in China, with different ecological environment and resource endowment. How to plan development after keeping the benchmark line of ecological protection?
"All regions along the Yellow River need to start from practical departure, Yishui water, Yishan mountains, Yi grain food, Yinong farmers, Yigong workers, and Yishang merchants.
Ecology takes priority, green development, “green” is the undertone.
Food and meat production accounts for about 1/3 of the country, coal reserves account for more than half of the country... As an important agricultural production base and energy base, from green agriculture to green energy, Yellow River Basin high-quality development to "green".
Henan Mengzhou City, on the banks of the Yellow River. Zhang Hongde, a villager in Hengshan Village, chemical town, tap his mobile phone, several miles away in high standard farmland, irrigation equipment was launched.
In the Yushen Industrial Park in Yulin City, Shaanxi, a tank truck full of dimethyl carbonate slowly exited. This high-end chemical used for new energy vehicle batteries comes from the local focus on "coal head end" upgrade - no longer digging coal to sell coal, burning coal power, but turning coal into coal oil and coal-based high-end chemical products.
In addition to kerosene and gas, there is also wind and water. Tala Beach PV Industrial Park in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, the photovoltaic panels are arranged into a huge concentric circle, generating 18 billion kWh per year, equivalent to the total annual power generation of two nuclear motor groups;
Due to locality and classification, “new” is color.
Shaanxi Baoji City's answer is: 90 seconds. At Geely Automobile Shaanxi Baoji Manufacturing Base, more than 300 robots wave their arms, every 90 seconds a new energy vehicle goes offline.
Wind power wheel casting monomer, how heavy can it be? Huimin County Wind Power Industry Base, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, is 160 tons. "From mold design, sand box making to precision processing, coating anticorrosion, the whole industry chain is in the base." Zhang Zhenqiang, deputy general manager of Shandong Guochuang Precision Machinery Co., Ltd.
Inner Mongolia, the rise of clean energy highland; Gansu, actively promote new industrialization; Henan, equipment manufacturing to the high-end...
For people and people, “warm” is the color.
Hongde Village, Red Temple Fort District, Wuzhong City, Ningxia.
Xichen Village, Lugang Township, Changyuan City, Henan Province, is a typical Yellow River beach area. In the past, when the Yellow River flooded, "the rising water flooded home".
Yangmiao community in Dongji Town, Dongying City, Shandong Province. The rows of buildings are neatly arranged and the cement road lined with green trees.
Three small villages, see the countryside along the Yellow River. Previously only for the Yellow River to survive, now we have a higher hope: better days.
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In 1939, the Yellow River Choir was born in Yan'an Cave, which melted music genres such as Shanxi folk songs, Shaanxi north music and boatman sub in one furnace to sing the strong sounds of the era. Today, together seize great protection, cooperate to promote grand governance, promote a comprehensive green transformation in development mode.
Source: People's Daily
