The Yellow River Basin spans the eastern, central and western parts of the continent and plays a pivotal strategic role in the overall development of the country and the overall situation of modernization. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has put forward new ideas, carried out new explorations and made new arrangements based on the reality of the Yellow River's "frail and sick" and focused on the great cause of the Yellow River's governance and development. General Secretary Xi Jinping traveled to the nine provinces (regions) of the Yellow River Basin, delivered a series of important speeches and made important instructions, highlighting that "provinces and regions along the Yellow River should implement the strategic deployment of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and unswervingly follow the modernization path of ecological priority and green development", pointing out the direction for the overall promotion of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.
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The profound implication of ecological priority and green development and modernization
Ecological priority and green development have pointed out the main direction, strategic path, major principles and fundamental compliance for the modernization of the Yellow River Basin, embodying the core viewpoint of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and highlighting the light of truth of the Party's innovation theory. It contains a profound historical view of seeking a thousand plans for the nation. The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation. Standing at the strategic height of the great rejuvenation and sustainable development of the Chinese nation, General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically drew a blueprint for the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, pointing out that "the protection of the Yellow River is a great plan related to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation". Adhering to ecological priority and green development is to "take care of the ecological environment on which we rely for survival and development, for the sake of future generations, and for long-term development." "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has taken the governance of the Yellow River as a major event, and General Secretary Xi Jinping has personally planned, deployed and promoted the governance of the Yellow River for thousands of years, demonstrating the strong historical responsibility of the Communists in the new era.
It contains a scientific view of nature in which man and nature coexist in harmony. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "Chinese modernization is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature". Adhering to ecological priority and green development is to practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, and to achieve harmonious coexistence between people and rivers, not only to maintain the stability of the structure and function of the Yellow River ecosystem, maintain the health and life of the river, but also to ensure the long-term stability of the Yellow River and achieve high-quality development of the basin. This is the basic judgment of the relationship between man and the river made by General Secretary Xi Jinping based on the background of the significant improvement of the development level of the mainland's productive forces and the changes in the main contradictions in society, his insight into the law of natural ecological evolution of rivers and the law of human economic and social development, and the basic judgment of the relationship between man and river based on the viewpoint of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and it is also an important theoretical source for us to understand the connotation of the ecological protection and high-quality development strategy of the Yellow River Basin.
It contains a holistic system view based on basin-wide governance. General Secretary Xi Jinping scientifically judged and fully respected the objective laws of the ecosystem of the Yellow River Basin, accurately pointed out the pivotal strategic position of the Yellow River Basin in the ecological security pattern of the mainland's "two screens and three belts", and repeatedly emphasized the importance of protecting the ecology of the Yellow River in the field investigation of the nine provinces (regions) along the Yellow River, grasped the key contradiction of the Yellow River governance "the appearance is in the Yellow River, and the root is in the basin", and put forward the river basin governance concept of "jointly doing a good job in protecting and promoting the great governance in a coordinated manner", requiring "adapting measures to local conditions and implementing policies according to local conditions". It embodies the dialectical thinking of planning the overall situation with a system concept and solving problems from reality.
It contains the basic concept of people's livelihood for the benefit of the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping insisted on starting from the position of the people, repeatedly exhorted to protect the "China Water Tower", and emphasized "making the Yellow River a happy river for the benefit of the people", providing goal guidance and value guidance for the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. Adhering to ecological priority and green development means adhering to the people-centered development philosophy, so that the Yellow River can be safe and sound, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment. This demonstrates General Secretary Xi Jinping's feelings for the people and the river, and the party's innovative theory adheres to the firm position of the supremacy of the people, which has a strong theoretical force and effectively stimulates the deep recognition of the national strategy of the Yellow River by the whole society.
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The intrinsic requirements of ecological priority and green development are the intrinsic requirements of the modernization path
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "To control the Yellow River, the emphasis is on protection, and it is necessary to govern it. "Ecological priority and green development reflect the dialectical unity of river governance and human development, which requires us to scientifically understand and correctly handle several major relationships, and further improve the ability and level of governance.
Improve strategic thinking skills. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "the development along the Yellow River must have an awareness of the overall situation, consider from the perspective of the country and the overall situation, and firmly establish the idea of 'a game of chess'." It is necessary to have a good grasp of the relationship between the overall situation and the local situation, and attach importance to the interests of the overall situation on major issues." This requires us to change the mode of thinking from the singleness and one-sidedness of "seeking one domain" to the pluralism and comprehensiveness of "seeking the overall situation", and better coordinate the two major events of development and security.
Improve systems thinking skills. It is necessary to base ourselves on the integrity of the whole river basin and ecosystem, respect the laws of nature, adhere to the comprehensive management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands, systematic management, and source management, and jointly do a good job in protecting and promoting large-scale governance. It is necessary to better grasp the interaction between the upstream and downstream, the left and right banks of the whole basin, and better grasp the all-field cooperative relationship led by the government, enterprise participation, market allocation and social coordination in the construction of ecological civilization, so as to find a new path for ecological civilization and economic, political, social and cultural construction to complement each other. Improve critical thinking skills. Adhere to the correct view of political performance, better grasp the current and long-term relationship, the relationship between protection and development, and achieve success does not have to be in my spiritual realm and success must have my historical responsibility, not only take large-scale protection as a key task, and do a good job in environmental problem rectification, in-depth water conservation and control, ecological protection and restoration, but also pay attention to reform and rule of law construction, innovate and improve the system and mechanism, promote ecological industrialization, industrial ecology, and achieve a win-win situation of "green" and "rich".
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Write a new chapter in the ecological priority and green development of the Yellow River Basin
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the implementation of the Yellow River National Strategy. Over the past five years, the nine provinces (regions) along the Yellow River have thoroughly implemented the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the Outline of the Plan for Ecological Protection and High-quality Development of the Yellow River Basin, and jointly built a river of ecology, wealth, civilization and happiness. The 14th Five-Year Plan is a critical period to promote the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. It is necessary to pay close attention to the shortcomings and weaknesses, persevere, work for a long time, and make steady progress on the road of ecological priority and green development.
Focus on ecological protection, and implement the requirements of adapting measures to local conditions and implementing policies by category. The key is to go with nature and respect the law. Respect the laws of water. The Yellow River accounts for 2% of the country's water resources to support 12% of the country's population and 17% of the country's arable land, and the water resource development and utilization rate has reached 80%, far exceeding the ecological warning line of 40%, and some tributaries have been cut off. We must abandon the impulsive idea of conquering water and nature, overcome the one-sidedness of talking about water on water, and truly take water as a teacher, determine the city, the land, the people, and produce with water. It is necessary to respect the distribution law of vegetation, pay close attention to the trend of climate warming and humidification and its impact, strengthen the demonstration of water balance, and reasonably adopt ecological protection and restoration measures.
In the upstream areas, the water conservation function of important ecological areas such as the "China Water Tower" and the Sanjiangyuan River Area should be strengthened, and the implementation of major ecological protection and restoration projects should be accelerated, so as to maintain good biological habitats. In the middle reaches, the focus should be on soil and water conservation, and ecological factors such as climate, water resources, site conditions, and vegetation characteristics should be considered as a whole, so as to optimize the vegetation layout of the basin. Implement the principle of "four waters and four determinations", and do a good job in the allocation of water resources and efficient water conservation. In the downstream areas, we will vigorously promote wetland protection and ecological governance, carry out in-depth restoration of wetland ecological protection system and comprehensive environmental management in the Yellow River Delta, and strengthen the restoration of the integrated system of coastal water ecology, water environment and biodiversity.
Focus on high-quality development, and implement the requirements of taking a green and low-carbon development path and accelerating the development of new quality productivity. New quality productivity is itself green productivity. The Yellow River Basin is not only an important base for agriculture and animal husbandry, but also known as the "energy basin", and the problems of industrial dependence on energy, low quality and low efficiency are more prominent. It is necessary to strengthen innovation-driven, smooth the virtuous cycle of education, science and technology, and talents, strengthen the construction and guidance of key innovation platforms, lay out collaborative innovation platforms in the Yellow River Basin, and build a regional innovation system in the Yellow River Basin. It is necessary to further promote the energy revolution, accelerate the construction of a new energy system, promote the clean and efficient use of coal, and promote the rapid development of the new energy industry. It is necessary to promote the green transformation of traditional industries, force the transformation with the strictest environmental protection standards, promote the high-end, green and intelligent traditional manufacturing industry, build a green, low-carbon and high-quality development pilot zone, and actively develop water-saving and efficient agriculture. It is necessary to actively cultivate and develop high-growth, high-value-added emerging industries and future industries, stimulate new momentum, and open up new tracks. It is necessary to promote reform and development through opening-up, accelerate the integration with major strategies such as the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the rise of central China, and the development of the western region and the construction of the "Belt and Road", and accelerate the construction of a new pattern of opening up that takes into account both internal and external, land-sea linkage, mutual assistance between east and west, and multi-directional progress.
Focus on cultural inheritance, and implement the requirements of promoting the Yellow River culture and telling the "Yellow River story". The Yellow River Basin is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, and the Yellow River culture is the root and soul of the Chinese nation. To promote the protection, inheritance and innovation of the Yellow River culture, it is necessary to take Xi Jinping Cultural Thought as the guide, inherit the Yellow River cultural genes, systematically study and sort out the development of the Yellow River culture, establish a research system for the Yellow River culture, and deeply explore the rich connotation of the Yellow River culture and the value of the times. Protect the cultural heritage of the Yellow River, do a good job in the maintenance and maintenance of historical relics and historic sites such as the ancient channel of the Yellow River, the ancient embankment of the Yellow River, cliff carvings, large tombs, ancient villages, archaeological sites, etc., and vigorously protect the intangible cultural heritage of the Yellow River Basin, such as opera, martial arts, folk customs, and traditional skills. Promote the integrated development of culture and tourism, promote the docking of the cultural resources of the Yellow River and industrial resources, innovate the cultural communication system of the Yellow River, tell the story of the Yellow River culture, and create a cultural tourism belt of the Yellow River with international influence.
△ The author of this article: Wu Cunrong, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Article source: People's Political Consultative Conference Daily; Transferred from: Ecological Conservation and Restoration