CCTV.com News (Focus Interview): The ten years of the new era are ten years of overcoming difficulties and striving for them, and they are also ten years of continuous major changes in various fields, achieving key breakthroughs, and achieving major achievements. Starting today, Focus Interview launches the "Ten Years·Answer" series, which will take you to see the great changes in the past decade from several aspects.
Ecological civilization construction is the fundamental plan related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and a good ecological environment is the most universal people's livelihood and well-being. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core has been working hard to build ecological civilization with unprecedented efforts, and the concept of green waters and green mountains being gold and silver mountains has been deeply implemented. Over the past decade, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, my country's ecological environment protection has undergone historic, turning point and overall changes. Blue sky, white clouds, green waters and green mountains are becoming more and more, and beautiful China is constantly becoming a reality.
Zhang Tingting, a technician of the coking workshop of Pengfei Coking Plant in Shanxi, said: "I am a coking worker. I have been practicing coke for more than ten years, but my hands are no different from those in the office. Now our production plant has no coal transportation and no coke transportation. Workers are sitting in the control room, typing on the keyboard to do production. And we are now popular with white shirts. If this were ten years ago, this phenomenon would be unimaginable. At that time, we were covered in darkness and smiled and saw teeth."
Luliang is located in Shanxi Province, the national energy and heavy chemical base. The industrial structure was once mainly coal, coking, etc., with serious pollution and smog happening on occasions.
is not just Luliang. According to environmental monitoring satellite data, ten years ago, the sky in many parts of China was shrouded in gray. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that we must resolutely win the battle to defend the blue sky and restore the blue sky, white clouds and stars to the people.
In Luliang, the coking plant where Zhang Tingting is located also participated in this battle to defend the blue sky.
Chairman and President of Shanxi Pengfei Group Zheng Peng said: "In the past, water was used to extinguish the red coke. Water vapor was scattered everywhere with smoke, dust, sulfide, hydroxide , which was not only wasted water resources and polluted the environment. Now this backward process has been eliminated, and 3 billion yuan has been invested to carry out comprehensive transformation of environmental protection systems and production systems."
While enterprises are reducing pollutant emissions, a "heroic man cuts off his arm" industrial transformation and upgrading action has also kicked off the curtain in Luliang.
The open space where the soil survey is being conducted was a coking plant. Because it is close to residential areas and has a great impact on the air quality in the city, it was closed in 2019. Now, companies are preparing to transform their industries based on soil survey results.
In the past decade, Luliang City has eliminated and reduced coking production capacity by 10.53 million tons. It is currently transforming and developing towards industries such as hydrogen energy , new materials, and cultural tourism.
, Director of the Ecological Environment Bureau of Luliang City, Shanxi Province, Cai Yujie, said: "At the same time, we have also implemented the replacement of centralized heating and clean energy in the city, used waste heat and centralized heating of power plants to replace loose coal combustion, changed buses and taxis to electric vehicles, and controlled air pollution through multiple measures. Over the past ten years, the PM2.5 concentration in Luliang City has dropped by 54%. "
From a national perspective, over the past ten years, from the " Atmospheric Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan " to the "Three-Year Action Plan for Winning the Battle of Blue Sky", from industrial structure adjustment to clean energy replacement, this battle for blue sky is bringing a real sense of happiness to the people.
Over the past decade, the average concentration of PM2.5 in 74 key cities across the country has dropped by 56%, and the number of days of heavy pollution has decreased by 87%. At the same time, my country has supported the annual economic growth of 6.5% with an average annual growth rate of 3%.
Renmin University of China Wang Xiangming, Vice President of the Institute of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, said: "In the past, economic growth and environmental protection were regarded as two things. It seems that to develop the economy, you may have to sacrifice the environment. However, for the first time, General Secretary Xi Jinping has unified these two issues very dialectically. Green waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains. Over the years, China's ecology has really undergone fundamental changes in historic, overall and turning points, giving the people a real sense of gain."
Jiepai Town Party Committee Secretary and Jiepai Town General River Chief Xu Ruijun introduced that not far ahead of Yonghong River is the entrance of Yangtze River . Now the water here is clear and green on the banks, and the water quality is stable to Class III. However, more than ten years ago, there were many illegal constructions on both sides, and the water quality was once in a poor V category.
Jiepai Town is close to the Yangtze River. There are more than 3,000 enterprises of various types in the area of more than 20 square kilometers. It is an industrial center of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. In the past, due to the relatively extensive development model and insufficient infrastructure supporting facilities, enterprises' production sewage and residents' domestic sewage are often discharged directly into the river and flowing into the Yangtze River.
Ten years ago, similar situations were not uncommon along the Yangtze River. Yangtze River Economy With , covering 11 provinces and cities in my country, for a long time, sewage enters the river, chemicals surround the river, etc., causing the water quality of the Yangtze River to be urgent and the ecology deteriorates. General Secretary Xi Jinping has presided over three special symposiums, personally "take the pulse and prescription" and proposed "jointly protect the big protection and not carry out big development".
In order to solve the problems of river and lake water disasters and water ecology that the people are most concerned about, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country has fully established river chief system and lake chief system . 1.2 million river and lake chiefs at the five levels of provinces, cities, counties, townships and villages have taken up their posts and performed their duties, and Xu Ruijun is one of them.
The enterprise in Jiepai Town Entrepreneurship Park was once an "difficult household" in the town. Because there was no sewage treatment capacity, enterprises had to put it in every day. The sewage is loaded into the vehicle and sent to the sewage treatment plant in the city for treatment. Once the production cost is high, the enterprises are also lucky enough to discharge the sewage directly from the river.
Enterprises are not in place in environmental protection and sewage discharge, and the river chiefs are also reflecting on how to make up for the shortcomings in infrastructure? Since 2018, Jiepai Town has invested more than 100 million yuan to build more than 20 kilometers of sewage discharge main pipelines, and 11 new sewage pump stations have been built and rebuilt. Enterprises in the town can connect the sewage and domestic sewage nearby to collect and treat them in a centralized manner.
At the same time, Jiepai Town has carried out ecological restoration of the Yangtze River coastline in its jurisdiction, closed the "scattered and messy" wharf by the river, and 84 river outlets in the town have also established files one by one to track and monitor the water quality.
To protect the mother river The ecology of the 10-year fishing ban in key waters in the Yangtze River Basin has been fully launched, more than 200,000 fishermen have retired from fishing and landed, and a large number of chemical enterprises along the river have been "closed, reformed and transferred". Today, the high-quality water section of the Yangtze River has exceeded 97%, basically achieving excellent water quality in the entire basin.
is not just the Yangtze River. Over the past ten years, the appearance of rivers and lakes in my country has achieved fundamental improvements. The proportion of excellent water sections in the national surface water has reached 84.9%, an increase of 23.3%. The "scene of giving the people clear water and green banks and fish swimming in the shallow bottom" proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping is becoming a reality.
Wang Xiangming said: "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in terms of ecological improvement, whether it is the battle to defend the blue sky, the need for clear water and green mountains, or the pure land, it is actually closely related to the lives of the people. When talking about ecological governance, General Secretary Xi Jinping particularly emphasized that priority should be given to solving these ecological and environmental problems closely related to people's livelihood, so in this sense, improving the environment means improving people's livelihood. "
Yang Wangrong's rice and crab fields are located on the Wuding River on the southern edge of the Mu Usu Desertland. He has been suffering from wind and sand since childhood. He never thought that every autumn harvest season, this is a harvest of rice-flavored crabs.
Desertification is a major ecological problem facing the world, and my country is one of the countries that have suffered serious harm from desertification. Taking the Mu Usu Desertland as an example, in the past, the silt sand that entered Yellow River every year due to soil erosion had exceeded 500 million tons.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "We must scientifically promote desertification, stone desertification , and comprehensive control of soil erosion, and carry out large-scale land greening actions. "
Mu Us Sandland has a large part of the area in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. In an ecological demonstration area of Yulin , Mi Haili, known as the "Sand Second Generation", is busy with 40,000 mu of Largo pine .
The previous generation of people control sand, and planted shrubs more, with short lifespan and high possibility of secondary desertification. Today, the tree forest represented by Largo pine has become a newer "Sforest Second Generation" tree species.
Shi Changchun, deputy director of Shaanxi Academy of Forestry Sciences and stationmaster of Yulin Ecological Station of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, said: "At present, such as lactiflora pine and Hebei Yang , these excellent tree species suitable for growing in sand areas have expanded very quickly. Now it can be counted that after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, nearly 2 million mu of improved shrub forest land used to improve quality and efficiency."
Over the past decade, Yulin City has achieved a historic leap from "sand advances and people retreats" to "green advances and sand retreats", and all 8.6 million mu of quicksand in the sand area have been fixed and semi-fixed. With the continuous restoration of the ecological environment, various "sand industries" have also developed vigorously. The deserts of the past are becoming "gold and silver mountains" of green development. Yang Wangrong, who started raising rice fields and crabs last year, also had a good harvest this autumn.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country has implemented key projects and projects such as the Beijing-Tianjin sand source control project and the "Three Norths" shelterbelt project, and has completed a total of 278 million mu of sand control tasks, afforestation of 960 million mu of afforestation, and the forest coverage rate has reached 24.02%.
Wang Xiangming said: "In the past decade, my country's plan for ecological protection has been more perfect, the ecological legislation has been unprecedentedly strong, and various regulations and rules for ecology have been issued to govern the ecology with unprecedented numbers, and the achievements in ecology have also been made. Chinese-style modernization, the concept of synchronizing environmental protection and production development, will have a more profound impact on China's future."
Over the past decade, under the guidance of 's new development concept , many changes are quietly happening: blue sky and white clouds are no longer luxury goods, friends There are fewer people in the circle of blue sky and more people in the stars. The number of starry sky hotels and B&Bs on the tourism platform has increased by more than 10 times compared with 2013; the black and smelly water bodies in cities at the prefecture level and above are basically gone, and a new 99,000-kilometer sewage pipeline network is built, which is equivalent to more than two circles around the earth's equator; in the past decade, a quarter of the newly added forest area in the world has come from China, and the once considered extinct colored ibis has appeared again, and 112 unique rare and endangered wild animals and plants have achieved a return in the wild, and a picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature is vividly displayed.
Source: CCTV
