The river is rushing to see China’s ecological priority and green development, playing the song of the Yangtze River in the new era

　　Cctv news(News Network): Rivers are rushing and China is splendid. Starting from today (October 1st), News Network has launched a series of reports, "Rivers Pentium to See China", which shows the great achievements made in China’s economic and social development in the new era along the great rivers rushing forward on the motherland, and vividly presents the beautiful China with happy people’s lives and vibrant society. Today, first of all, go along the mother river, the Yangtze River, to see the green change of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the provinces along the Yangtze River have put the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming position. At the source of Tuotuo River and Bande Lake, once herders became environmental protection volunteers to protect the biodiversity at the source of the Yangtze River. In the upper reaches, Yunnan, Sichuan and Chongqing have established a cross-provincial horizontal ecological compensation mechanism to jointly build an ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River; In the middle reaches, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces promoted ecological joint defense and governance, and the green ecological corridor in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River was accelerated. In the downstream, the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta jointly do a good job in sewage outlet remediation to improve the ecological quality of transboundary water bodies in the basin.

　　The upper, middle and lower reaches work together, the river basin is treated together, and the lakes and ponds are treated together. In 2021, the proportion of excellent water quality in the state-controlled section of the Yangtze River basin was 97.1%, and the water quality of the main stream has reached Grade II for two consecutive years. Not long ago, during the 2022 scientific expedition of finless porpoises in the whole Yangtze River basin, the expedition team found several finless porpoises in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the finless porpoise frequency is now a vivid footnote for the ecological transformation of the Yangtze River.

　　Recuperate. From January 1, 2021, the key waters of the Yangtze River Basin will be closed to fishing for ten years. 111,000 fishing boats and 231,000 fishermen were arrested and landed. In Xuejiawa, Maanshan, Anhui Province, Chen Lanxiang, who has been fishing all his life, put down his fishing net and boarded the Internet to set up "Three Girls Labor Service Co., Ltd." to drive the fishermen ashore to start businesses together. In 2021, the company paid a dividend of 7,000 yuan to each household of the fishermen.

　　Adhere to ecological priority and green development, and the golden waterway will be smoother. Chongqing in the upper reaches, China-Europe trains, the new land and sea channel in the west and other international logistics channels are fully connected; Wuhan in the middle reaches, the routes to Japan and South Korea are becoming more and more mature; Just last month, the single day and night container throughput of the downstream Shanghai Port exceeded 170,000 TEUs, a record high. In 2021, the cargo throughput of trunk ports of the Yangtze River exceeded 3.5 billion tons, ranking first among inland rivers in the world.

　　Promote high-quality development, adhere to innovation drive in all provinces and cities along the Yangtze River, and accelerate the growth of a number of competitive and influential advantageous industrial clusters. Guizhou relies on abundant hydropower resources to build a big data industry; Sichuan and Chongqing continue to exert their efforts in automobile, electronic information and equipment manufacturing industries; Hunan’s advanced equipment, new energy and new materials industries have injected new kinetic energy into high-quality development; Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui jointly built the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community, jointly unveiled the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, and continuously promoted the deep integration of science and technology industries.

　　"Protect in development and develop in protection", along the Yangtze River, we are striving to become the main battlefield of ecological priority and green development, unblock the domestic and international double circulation aorta, lead the main force of high-quality economic development, and play the "Song of the Yangtze River" in the new era.