Over the past ten years, Changdu City has seized development opportunities, forged ahead, focused on the "four major events" and "four guarantees", focused on the "four creations" and "four steps ahead", adhered to the general tone of work of seeking progress while maintaining st

Three rivers have been surging for an extraordinary decade.

With the sonorous footsteps of the development of the times, the land of Tibet East has gone through an extraordinary ten years. Over the past ten years, Changdu City has seized development opportunities, forge ahead bravely, focused on the "four major events" and "four guarantees", focused on the "four creations" and "four at the forefront", adhered to the general tone of work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, worked hard and worked tirelessly, and made all-round progress and historic achievements in all undertakings.

Looking back at the past, a magnificent historical picture depicts the great changes in the development of Chambo for ten years, and records the improvement of the quality of people's lives.

improves quality and efficiency, and achieves the "acceleration" of development

For the achievements of economic development in Changdu over the past ten years, the data is the most convincing. Statistics show that in 2021, the city's GDP reached 25.289 billion yuan, 2.83 times that of 2012; in the first half of 2022, the city's GDP reached 12.187 billion yuan, and increased by 44.8% year-on-year, ranking first in the region.

At 2 pm on August 25, 2022, the No. 43 unit of the Suwalong Hydropower Station in the upper reaches of Jinsha River at the junction of Mangkang County, Changdu City and Batang County, Sichuan Province completed a 72-hour trial operation and officially put into production and power generation.

"Suwalong Hydropower Station has installed 4 300,000 kilowatt units, and the first unit has been put into production and generate electricity in July this year. At the full load of the first two 300,000 kilowatt units, they can generate 14.4 million kilowatt hours of clean and reliable electricity every day, which can meet the electricity needs of 3 million households or 1,000 large office buildings." Hu Guiliang, Party Secretary and Chairman of Huadian Jinshang Company, said.

Suwalong Hydropower Station is a representative of the rapid development of Changdu clean energy enterprises.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Changdu City has based its rich water, wind and light energy resources, and has made every effort to build a national clean energy base in Tibet. The construction of "one base, two demonstrations" of water, wind and light storage, mainly based on the Jinsha River and Lancang River, is progressing in an orderly manner. At present, the installed power capacity of 620,800 kilowatts has been built, and the installed capacity of power stations under construction has reached 10.505 million kilowatts.

Developing characteristic agriculture and animal husbandry on the East Tibet Plateau is also an important part of Chamdo's full efforts to promote economic development.

Gongjue County has a history of breeding Awang sheep for more than 1,400 years. In the past, due to disorderly grazing and low breeding technology, Awang sheep produced year by year.

Based on the principle of "not destroying the market, but protecting sheep seeds", in 2015, Gongjue County invested 160 million yuan to build the Awang sheep industry chain. In 2016, it built the Awang sheep seed protection and breeding demonstration base, vigorously supported the Awang sheep breeding professional cooperative and increased industrial support. Now Awang sheep has become a "golden sign" in Gongjue County.

Over the past decade, the total industrial output value of Changdu City has increased from 594 million yuan in 2012 to 8.448 billion yuan in 2021, with an average annual growth of 34.3%; in 2021, the city's total grain output reached 200,500 tons; the total agricultural and animal husbandry output value increased from 2.773 billion yuan in 2012 to 5.504 billion yuan in 2021, with an average annual growth of 7.92%; the cultural and tourism industry entered the fast lane of development, and in 2021, the number of tourists from inside and outside the area exceeded 2.5885 million, an increase of 1.8705 million from 2012.

Improve people's livelihood to achieve a better life

Neon lights are in full swing, and Chamdo is shining at night.

After dinner, I walked through the endless streets and bustling crowds to the Zhaqu River and took a walk along the river. This is a habit that Ram, a resident of Chengguan Town, Karo District, has developed in recent years.

As a native of Chamdo, Ram was deeply impressed by his former living environment. "In the past, Chamdo houses were mostly adobe houses, with poor ventilation and lighting conditions, and frequent water and power outages, making life very inconvenient," said Ram.

In April 2012, Changdu City launched the old city renovation project and was fully completed in October 2015. Taking the renovation of the old city as a breakthrough, Changdu continues to improve urban functions, optimize the living environment, and improve people's lives according to the modern city positioning.

"Now we have all moved into buildings, and when we go out, we are supermarkets and hospitals, as well as places such as Tea Horse Forum and Jiefang Square for people to relax," said Ram.

In 2017, Karuo District, Changdu City was the first to get rid of poverty in the entire district. Luo Songlangzhi, who lives in Karo Village, Karo District, has established Karo District Luo Lang Huimin Painting Co., Ltd. and contracted a pickled vegetable factory through the targeted poverty alleviation policy, with the support of the Karo Village Party Branch and the village committee, and achieved a gorgeous turn from poor households to wealth leaders.

Luo Songlangzhi’s good life now is a microcosm of Changdu City’s winning battle against poverty. Changdu City insists on making winning the battle against poverty a top priority. poverty alleviation and has achieved comprehensive victory, 38,400 households and 194,600 poor people have been lifted out of poverty, 11 counties (districts) have all been lifted out of poverty, and people of all ethnic groups have significantly enhanced their sense of gain, happiness and security.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Changdu City has insisted on using more than 80% of its fiscal expenditure to ensure and improve people's livelihood, and continues to promote people-friendly projects with focus on employment, education, medical care, social security, etc., and a number of people's livelihood problems involving the vital interests of the people have been effectively solved.

According to statistics, the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents in Changdu City in 2021 was 40,586 yuan and 15,159 yuan, respectively, which was 2.6 times and 3.1 times that of 2012; the participation rate of basic pension insurance reached more than 95%, the participation rate of urban and rural residents reached 98%, and the participation rate of urban employees reached 100%; the employment rate of college graduates remained above 99%; the cumulative employment of 57,000 new jobs in urban areas, and the cumulative transfer of 1.2 million surplus labor in rural and pastoral areas.

Ecological civilization depicts beautiful picture

At the Changmaoling Management Station of the Red Deer National Nature Reserve in Puqiong Village, Leiwuqi County, the red deer after eating are lazily lying on the grass basking in the sun. "The deer is not afraid of people at all. Sometimes it rubs its head against us, acting like a child." Raba Tseren, director of the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Lewuqi County, told reporters.

According to Raba Tseren, in recent years, category Wuqi County has vigorously promoted wildlife protection work. At present, more than 8,000 red deer live in a protected area with a radius of more than 120,000 hectares. Compared with the early stages of the establishment of the protected area, the number of red deer has increased by 60%.

is located in the Latu Wetland in Gongjue County and is an important water source conservation site for the tributary of the Lancang River and the upper reaches of the Maqu River. In recent years, Gongjue County has vigorously carried out wetland ecological restoration, scientific research monitoring, wetland management and maintenance, making the Latu National Wetland Park with a total area of ​​3,593.84 hectares more and more quiet and beautiful.

"Since 2018, we have organically combined ecological protection with solving the employment of local people, and hired a certain number of people to participate in wetland protection every year." Li Guanjun, a staff member of the Gongjue County Forestry and Grassland Bureau, introduced.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Changdu City has thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, focused on creating a national ecological civilization highland, focused on protection and restoration, and focused on ecological environment governance, and promoted ecological benefits and benefit the people. In 2019, Changdu City was awarded the title of National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration City by Ministry of Ecology and Environment and was listed. Up to now, the city has successfully created 2 demonstration counties for the construction of ecological civilization at the autonomous region level, 58 demonstration townships, and 528 villages (communities); the water quality of key rivers, lakes and drinking water sources has reached the national Class III standard, and the excellent atmospheric environmental quality rate has reached 100%; vigorously implemented afforestation and greening, returning farmland to forests, and returning pasture to grassland, with the forest coverage rate of reaching 34.78%, and the comprehensive vegetation coverage of grasslands reached 78.04%.

Looking back at the past, the children of Tibet stood at the forefront, striving to fight against the wave of development of the times; looking forward to the future, the people of Chamdo stand at a new journey and a new historical starting point, and will surely ride the east wind of the new era, work together to create a better tomorrow.

Source: China Tibet News Network