CCTV News (Focus Interview): The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, and protecting the Yellow River is a thousand-year plan related to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about the ecology of the Yellow River and the development of the coast. In his 2022 New Year's message, he said with deep affection: "The Yellow River Anlan is the millennium expectation of the sons and daughters of China. In recent years, I have traveled to 9 provinces and regions in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. From October 20 to 21, 2021, he came to the last stop of the Yellow River to the sea, the mouth of the Yellow River, to understand the ecological protection and high-quality development here, and to visit the relocated people in the Yellow River beach area he was concerned about.
This is the Yangmiao community in Dongying City, Shandong Province, not far from the Yellow River embankment, where residents express their New Year's wishes in their favorite way during the Spring Festival.
Xu Fuhua is 66 years old, three generations of grandchildren, and a family of 6. This year is the sixth Spring Festival they have moved to the Yangmiao community. His most memorable event of the past year was that on October 21, the general secretary came to their house.
Xu Fuhua said: "At that time, when I said that President Xi had come to my house, I was very nervous. When he really sat here, he asked what to answer, and he didn't feel nervous. President Xi went to the bathroom first, then to the dining room, and I opened the refrigerator for him to see and went to the bedroom again. ”
In the living room, Xi Jinping sat around and talked with three generations of Xu Fuhua's family. Xu Fuhua showed the general secretary a photo of the old house before the relocation.
Xu Fuhua said: "At that time, the old house where I lived was inconvenient to enter and exit, and in the summer, I came out with a foot of mud and soil, and the traffic was not convenient. ”
As a relocation and resettlement community for residents in the Yellow River Beach District, Yangmiao Community currently has 1535 households and 4792 residents. The government invested 560 million yuan, and all of them were relocated at the end of 2016. Before the relocation, Xu Fuhua and his villagers lived on the terrace of the water shelter in the Yellow River beach area for more than 30 years.
Xu Fuhua said: "He asked again how he felt after going upstairs? I said that moving to the building feels really good, winter floor heating is not expensive, 10 yuan a flat, summer with air conditioning, winter can not freeze, summer heat can not be. ”
Relocated to the Yangmiao community, Xu Fuhua's family lived the life of a city dweller. He and his son Xu Jianfeng were divided into two suites, a three-bedroom and two-hall more than 120 square meters, his son's daughter-in-law and granddaughter lived, and he and his wife lived in another house of more than 80 square meters. The market price of the two houses is about 550,000 yuan, and through government subsidies, the family only spent 200,000 yuan.
In the past five years, Shandong Province has invested more than 37 billion yuan to fully launch the relocation and construction project of residents in the Yellow River beach area, helping more than 600,000 people in the beach area like Xu Fuhua to realize the "dream of living in peace" and "dream of moderate prosperity" for thousands of years.
In Xu Fuhua's home, the general secretary is also particularly concerned about the family income after the relocation of their family.
Xu Fuhua said: "When asked about family income, 1780,000 yuan a year, the general secretary said that this income is quite considerable."
Xu Fuhua's son works in the enterprise, his daughter-in-law finds a job in the community cooperative, the old couple also works odd jobs to earn money, and there is still income every year after the land circulation in the Yellow River beach area, and he is very satisfied with his current life. The property service is thoughtful, there is a kindergarten in the community, his little granddaughter goes to school there, and there is a health room, which is very convenient for catching a cold, getting injections and taking medicine.
In order to make the relocated people feel at ease, the local government has strengthened community services. At the window of the Yangmiao Community Convenience Service Station, 32 matters can be completed on the spot, and more than 40 matters are handled by community workers and volunteers, without the need for the masses to run errands. The Yangmiao community accounts for about a quarter of the population over the age of 60, and the community has also specially opened an affordable restaurant for the elderly to provide warm lunches for the elderly in the community. The general secretary commented that the dishes of the elderly restaurant are suitable for the elderly and are not worse than those of the city.
Moving into a new community, whether the masses have a job or not, the general secretary is also concerned. The Yangmiao community has set up 6 new cooperatives such as fruit and vegetable planting and straw weaving to help the masses achieve employment and entrepreneurship at the doorstep of their homes. Liu Aiying, a resident of the community, found a job at the Jin'an Straw Weaving And processing cooperative. When the general secretary came to the cooperative, Liu Aiying was weaving bookshelves.
Liu Aiying, a resident of Yangmiao Community in Kenli District, Dongying City, Shandong Province, said: "We were very excited when the general secretary came in, he said how long have you been making up this thing, I said it has been nearly three years." How much does this one cost? How much can I earn in January? I said that I can earn about fifteen hundred a month, there are fans here in the summer, there is floor heating in the winter, you can earn money at the doorstep of the house, where there is this good thing. ”
In the Yangmiao community, the general secretary asked all the way and asked for efforts to build the community into a happy home for the people. At present, the Yangmiao community is further refining service measures, creating a smart community, developing the e-commerce industry, and further expanding the employment opportunities of the relocated people.
The people in the Yellow River beach area touch the heart of the general secretary, and the anlan of the Yellow River also affects the heart of the general secretary. The mouth of the Yellow River is in Dongying City, where the Yangmiao community is located, and during the inspection and investigation in Dongying, Xi Jinping also came to the mouth of the Yellow River to look at the water conditions of the river from a distance. At that time, the Shandong section of the lower reaches of the Yellow River had just experienced the largest autumn flood in more than 30 years.
Pei Mingsheng, director of the Yellow River Estuary Management Bureau, said: "After the general secretary arrived here, I first reported to the general secretary on the current situation of defending against autumn floods, and then reported on the amount of water, sand content and flow into the sea. He said, I came here from the upstream, the middle reaches, the downstream, and today, I saw the water flowing into the sea, and my heart was already very solid. ”
The Yellow River flows through 9 provinces and regions, travels more than 5400 kilometers to Dongying, carries sediment and finally deposits at the mouth of the sea, creating the youngest land in the Republic - the Yellow River Delta, which is also the most complete wetland ecosystem in the warm temperate zone of the mainland, with global conservation value and national representation. In 1992, the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve was established here, covering an area of 1,530 square kilometers. The ecological protection of the Yellow River Delta touches the heart of the general secretary.
Gou Hongshui, secretary of the Dongying District Party Committee of Dongying City, Shandong Province, said: "He is very meticulous and very professional, he looked at the picture of the wing alkali peng, and said that it needs to be repaired every year, is it a natural state." At that time, when our colleagues reported, they innovated some ecological restoration methods, or mainly based on natural restoration, explored the ecological restoration model with the characteristics of the Yellow River, and formed a good wetland restoration effect of sequential restoration, natural succession, and long-term stability. The general secretary was very happy after hearing this. ”
In order to protect the ecological environment of the wetlands in the Yellow River Delta and improve biodiversity, Dongying has returned more than 72,000 mu of farmland to wetlands and more than 72,000 mu in recent years, and carried out water system connection and wetland restoration projects. Since 2017, the wetland area of the nature reserve has been restored to 188 square kilometers. With a good habitat environment that attracts millions of birds to migrate and overwinter here every year, the Yellow River Delta Nature Reserve has become the world's largest breeding ground for the National First Class Protected Animal Oriental White Stork.
Liu Jing, director of the Yellow River Delta Ecological Monitoring Center of the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve, said: "When it comes to the Oriental White Stork, when we build artificial nests according to its living habits, the general secretary is very interested, and laughs and says that the housing project you have built for the Oriental White Stork is a housing project that does not cost money, a free housing project. ”
The general secretary is also very concerned about the creation of the Yellow River Estuary National Park in the Yellow River Delta Nature Reserve, and requires scientific demonstration and solid progress. With a planned total area of 3,523 square kilometers, the Yellow River Estuary National Park is the country's first national park of land and sea integration. At present, the nature reserve has completed the preparation of the overall plan of the Yellow River Estuary National Park and entered the stage of creation and implementation.
Xu Mingde, secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Management Committee of the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve, said: "Bearing in mind the general secretary's entrustment, we have comprehensively carried out the creation of the Yellow River Estuary National Park, continued to promote wetland restoration, and further improved the level of intelligent protection and management. ”
The Yellow River Delta Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone is the second stop of Xi Jinping's investigation and investigation in Dongying. The Yellow River Delta Nonggao District is characterized by saline-alkali land, and the saline-alkali soil area accounts for 84% of the total land area in the region, making it the second state-level nonggao area in the mainland.
Luo Shouyu, a second-level inspector of the Yellow River Delta Agricultural High District in Shandong Province, said: "After the general secretary came here, he asked what kind of variety it was, how much salt it was tolerant to, and how much it was produced per mu. After asking these, bend down, pick a few beans, peel the beans and put them in your mouth to bite, this soybean is good, there is still a week to harvest. From here, we can see that the general secretary is indeed familiar with agriculture, and is an old-fashioned style, which we admire. The feelings of the leaders of big countries for the people and the feelings of caring for agriculture make us feel admired spontaneously. ”
The Yellow River Delta is rich in wild soybean resources, and wild soybeans are salt-tolerant, drought-tolerant and disease-resistant. There are 1.5 billion mu of saline-alkali land on the mainland, and 550 million mu with development potential. The general secretary is very concerned about the use of wild soybeans to breed salinity-tolerant soybean varieties.
Luo Shouyu said: "Soybeans are quite dependent on foreign countries and imports every year, and if soybean production and soybean planting can be carried out on saline and alkali land, it is of great strategic significance for reducing national soybean imports, ensuring the safety of grain and oil, and even the safety of feed grains, and ensuring the supply of meat, eggs and milk." ”
When the general secretary arrived, soybean breeding expert Xu Hualing and assistants were busy picking seed samples. Last year, more than 500 soybean strains were planted in his more than 30 acres of experimental fields, which were selected from wild soybeans as their fathers. In order to screen new varieties that are salt-tolerant and high-yielding, Xu Hualing has been working hard for more than ten years.
Xu Hualing said: "We use cultivated soybeans as the mother, wild soybeans as the father, after more than ten years of hybridization, cultivated a series that is both salt-tolerant and high-yielding, this year this series went to Hainan to add generations of breeding, next year can participate in the national soybean experiment." ”
Keeping in mind the general secretary's entrustment, in December last year, the Yellow River Delta Nonggao District invited the top domestic scientific research team to establish the Saline-tolerant Soybean Industry Technology Research Institute to prepare for the development of the whole industrial chain in the breeding, planting and promotion of saline-tolerant soybeans.
Luo Shouyu said: "In the next step, we will carry the banner of comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land and undertake the major mission of ensuring national food security." ”
Thousands of miles of Yellow River beach, the old look is renewed. When leaving the Yangmiao community, the general secretary's affectionate wishes warmed and inspired the hearts of the people in the Yellow River beach area for a long time.
Source: CCTV