Editor's note: June 28 is the third anniversary of the commissioning of the Baihetan Hydropower Station on the Jinsha River. Three years ago, the fate of Baihetan was changed by human beings; The fate of the people of Baihetan was also reversed. In the past three years, Qiaojia County has taken advantage of the "White Crane" to spread its wings and fly, grasped the support and development of immigrants in the later stage, and made many beneficial practices and explorations. On the occasion of the 3rd anniversary, the reporter once again went deep into Qiaojia County, and fully demonstrated the new changes, new styles, new actions, and new achievements of the cadres and masses at all levels in supporting and serving the local economic construction of a large country by understanding the situation of the power station, transportation development, urban construction, industrial cultivation, and the production and life of immigrants.
Original title: Green butterfly change under the heavy equipment of a great country - written on the third anniversary of the first batch of units of Baihetan Hydropower Station on the Jinsha River
On June 28, 2021, the first batch of units of the Baihetan Hydropower Station on the Jinsha River were put into operation safely and on time, and General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his congratulatory letter that the Baihetan Hydropower Station is a major national project that implements the "West-to-East Power Transmission", and is the largest and most technically difficult hydropower project under construction in the world today. The world's largest single-unit capacity million-kilowatt hydro-generator set has achieved a major breakthrough in high-end equipment manufacturing in mainland China.
Over the past three years, the Baihetan Hydropower Station has achieved significant social and economic benefits in flood control and power generation, making important contributions to promoting the mainland's carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, and comprehensively promoting the comprehensive green transformation of local economic and social development.
On the occasion of the third anniversary of the first batch of units of the Baihetan Hydropower Station on the Jinsha River, the reporter came to Qiaojia County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, to witness the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in the Qiaojia reservoir area of the east wind of the great power.
The vast river brings rolling green electricity, and the world's largest clean energy corridor continues to exert ecological benefits
The Jinsha River rushes from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, all the way south, and crashes into the Grand Canyon of Hengduan Mountain; The natural drop of 5,100 meters accounts for 95% of the total drop of the main stream of the Yangtze River, which contains abundant hydropower resources.
Standing on the dam of Baihetan Hydropower Station, the dam at your feet is like the shoulders of giants, taking you to overlook the mountains on both sides of the river, overlooking the Jinsha River in the canyon, the water flows down with the sun, and the blue waves ripple and the egrets fly and are full of vitality.
With a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts, Baihetan Hydropower Station is the second largest hydropower station in the world, and is known as the "Everest" of the world's hydropower industry with the world's first six world's firsts in terms of "the world's largest capacity of hydrogenerators, the largest scale of underground caverns, the scale of non-pressure flood discharge tunnels, the seismic parameters of 300-meter-level high dams, and the scale of cylindrical tailwater pressure regulating wells, and the world's first use of low-heat cement concrete in the whole dam of 300-meter extra-high arch dams".
The "Mount Everest" of the world's hydropower industry is also a "pioneer" of green development.
Wang Bin, senior engineer of the Yangtze River Power Baihetan Power Plant of the Three Gorges Corporation, told reporters that in recent years, the world's largest clean energy corridor consisting of Baihetan and Wudongde, Xiangjiaba, Xiluodu, Three Gorges and Gezhouba has routinely carried out more than 10 cascade reservoir ecological dispatch tests every year, injecting new momentum into the protection of biodiversity in the basin. During the 2023-2024 dry season, the world's largest clean energy corridor has added more than 30 billion cubic meters of water to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, equivalent to 2,100 West Lake waters, effectively alleviating the water shortage in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Today, Baihetan Hydropower Station has installed a total of 16 million kilowatt hydro-generating units, with a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts and an average annual power generation of 62.443 billion kilowatt hours.
As of the end of March this year, the Baihetan Hydropower Station has generated more than 120 billion kilowatt hours, which is equivalent to reducing the consumption of standard coal by more than 36 million tons and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by more than 98 million tons, providing a steady stream of clean electricity for Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other East China regions.
Wang Bin said that on December 20, 2022, with the commissioning of the last million-kilowatt unit of Baihetan Hydropower Station, this green corridor composed of Wudongde, Baihetan, Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba, Three Gorges, Gezhouba, etc., spans more than 1,800 kilometers, with a water level difference of more than 900 meters, a total of 110 hydro-generator units are in continuous operation, and the average annual power generation is about 300 billion kilowatt hours, which further exerts its role in ensuring flood control, shipping, water replenishment, ecological and energy security in the Yangtze River Basin.
Based on the livable environment and ecological industry, the migrants in the reservoir area can achieve employment and prosperity at their doorstep
Walking into Dazhai Town, Qiaojia County, neat and beautiful new villas have risen from the ground, spacious and clean hardened roads, and clusters of vibrant greening trees have come into being...... All this in front of us has only developed in just a few years with the construction of the Baihetan Hydropower Station.
Dazhai Town is the township where the dam of Baihetan Hydropower Station is located, located in the right side of the dam site of Baihetan Hydropower Station "halfway up the mountain", and the name of the power station is named after the Baihetan Group of Duoche Village, Dazhai Town. At the same time, Dazhai Town was the first to start the physical index survey, the first to start the transitional relocation, the first to sign the relocation agreement, and the first to complete the relocation task during the construction of the Baihetan Hydropower Station.
In order to enable immigrants to live a happy and livable life, Dazhai Town adheres to ecological priority and green development, and strives to create a livable environment and improve the happiness index of residents.
Dazhai Town has invested nearly 500 million yuan in the best location of the market town to scientifically plan and build villa homes for immigrants, and the townhouses are scientifically planned and ecologically livable. It has successively implemented greening, lighting, beautification and "one water and two pollution" projects, and completed the construction of hiking trails in resettlement areas and Anlan Cultural Square. In the vicinity of the construction of the power station, we will make every effort to do a good job in the greening projects along the mountains and on both sides of the highway, and carry out the tree planting activities of "planting trees and beautifying every month" every month. With 206 villager groups as the basic grid and 4 areas of the market town as the exclusive grid, a grid management system was established to comprehensively carry out the improvement of the human settlements.
At present, the infrastructure of the town has been greatly improved, the area of the market town has been doubled, and a business model has been formed with Baihe Street as the center to radiate the surrounding development.
The living environment of the masses is ecologically livable, and how to make the masses rich through ecology has become a "must-answer question" for the high-quality development of Dazhai Town.
Dazhai Town adheres to the principle of enriching the town with industry and revitalizing the town through tourism, actively attracting investment, revitalizing existing resources, and investing in the development of a number of rural tourism boutique attractions such as Maneck, Hongyan, Aijia Village Viewing Platform, Baihe Post Road, Jishui Anlan Cultural Square, Little Great Wall, Yi Village, etc., forming characteristic formats such as hydropower theme tourism, ecological tourism, and extreme sports tours, and building a power station sightseeing and diversified cultural and tourism integration experience tour town.
At the same time, based on local characteristics, Dazhai Town has created a number of special agricultural product brands such as "Houjia Rice Flower", "Xiaojia Pickles", "Dazhai Noodles" and "Banana Taro Vermicelli", and built a special agricultural product trading market, which has driven the development of more than 10 characteristic brand agricultural products production and sales, and driven the sales of 30,000 acres of pepper, 20,000 acres of walnuts and a large number of special products such as black artichoke, red rice, ginger and plum.
With the help of industry and tourism, B&Bs, hotels and farmhouses in Dazhai Town are developing vigorously, and residents enjoy the benefits brought by tourism. Since 2023, through the development of tourism, the town has attracted more than 100,000 tourists from all over the world to travel and sightseeing in the jurisdiction, driving the county to achieve tourism income of hundreds of millions of yuan.
The beautiful butterfly transformation of Dazhai Town is just a microcosm of Qiaojia County's efforts to release economic benefits.
In order to allow the relocated people to live and work in peace and contentment, Wenbi Community has built a national garment factory, a new material processing factory and an agricultural science and technology demonstration park by integrating funds and introducing enterprises to help the migrants find employment at their doorsteps and achieve "two correctness" in increasing income and caring for their families.
In Jintang Town, Qiaojia County, it has more than 3,000 acres of cultivated land and more than 30,000 acres of woodland, rich in plantains, mangoes, citrus, sericulture, pepper, etc., and is rich in hot spring resources. In recent years, Jintang Town has mainly focused on fruit tree species with strong economic benefits in the selection of greening tree species, vigorously developed mangoes, plantains and other characteristic fruits, played a good role in the development of characteristic industries, and "used fruit as a medium" around the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and gradually embarked on a road of rural revitalization with rich farmers in industry, agriculture with tourism, and integration of agriculture and tourism.
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Ma Shunbin, deputy director of the Qiaojia County Bureau of Culture and Tourism, told reporters that in the next step, the county will also improve the urban spatial structure, do a good job in "leading water into the city and moistening the city with water", optimize the planning and layout of waterfront towns and villages, and actively develop a tourism and health care industry system featuring tropical climate, lakes and mountains, health preservation, leisure and vacation, and folk culture, and create a landscape tourism belt integrating functions such as hydropower science popularization, ecological tourism, cultural experience, outdoor sports, agricultural leisure, and cold recreation. We will make every effort to promote the construction of a tourism complex in the reservoir area of Baihetan Hydropower Station in Qiaojia County.
Polishing the ecological background and continuously improving the quality of the ecological environment
The North Gate Riverside Park in the early morning is a beautiful scenery of Qiaojia. On the tree-lined road, some people are running and cycling, some are doing tai chi, and some people are finding three or five friends to sit down and chat...... Everyone is enjoying the happy life of "the city is in the mountains and rivers, and the people are in the park".
"In the past, as long as the wind was blowing here, people couldn't open their eyes. Now the environment is much better, blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green waters, living in such a beautiful environment, everyone is in a much more comfortable mood. Ms. Chen, who lives in the Beimen resettlement area, said with a smile.
Yang Boming, director of the Qiaojia Branch of the Zhaotong Ecological Environment Bureau, told reporters that in recent years, Qiaojia County has focused on improving environmental quality, solidly promoted the implementation of various tasks of the blue sky defense campaign, and made every effort to carry out the prevention and control of dust, oil smoke and exhaust pollution, and the excellent rate of Qiaojia ambient air quality in 2023 will reach 98.9%, ranking first in the city.
At the same time, Qiaojia County has made great efforts to promote the "four water co-governance" of drinking water, river water, lake water and sewage, and implemented the "rain and sewage diversion"; Strictly implement the river (lake) chief system, and build a three-level river chief system at the county, township, and village levels with the secretary of the county party committee as the chief river chief and the county head as the deputy chief river chief; Focusing on the protection and management of the Jinsha River, Niulan River and Yaoshan Nature Reserve, we will comprehensively promote the special action of river basin governance and protection, strengthen the investigation and rectification of sewage outlets, and strictly standardize the examination and approval of the setting of sewage outlets into the river of industrial and mining enterprises and urban sewage treatment plants. At present, the water quality of the Jinsha River and Niulan River (Qiaojia Section) section has reached Class III water quality or above, and the excellent water quality rate continues to be maintained at 100%.
Whether the ecology is good or not, between the green waters and green mountains, the vitality of rare wild animals and plants is the best witness.
Not long ago, the chestnut-throated bee-eater, known as "China's most beautiful bird", appeared on the Jinsha River in Qiujiayu Community, Qiaojia County, as scheduled.
"The species and number of birds is an important indicator to judge the ecological quality of a region, and the chestnut-throated bee-eater migrates to Qiaojia from other places every year, mainly along the Jinsha River to adapt to their survival, indicating that Qiaojia's excellent ecological environment has been recognized by them." Tang Yong, head of the Yuping Street Forestry Station, further said that we have also arranged for bird guards to carry out monitoring and inspections to protect their habitats.
In recent years, Qiaojia has also delineated 1,341,700 acres of ecological protection red lines, 2 nature reserves (lands), 3 priority areas and key areas of biodiversity conservation, and carried out solid research on the expansion and propagation of Qiaojia five-needle pine in the "plant world", the habitat migration and protection of the "most beautiful migratory bird" chestnut-throated bee-eater, the demarcation patrol and feeding of the black-necked crane of the "plateau fairy", the artificial breeding and release of fish in the Jinsha River basin, and the release of 1.71 million silver carp, bighead carp and other fish, and more than 4,000 surviving from 34 wild plants to breeding and transplanting. The typical ecosystems and rare wild animals and plants in the county have been effectively protected.
The water of the Haohao River brings rolling green electricity, which enriches the local people, and the excellent ecology attracts rare wild animals to inhabit it...... In the three years since the first batch of units of Baihetan Hydropower Station was put into operation for power generation, it is not only an answer sheet written in the green waters and green mountains, but also an answer sheet written in the hearts of the people.
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Source/China Environment Client Zhonghuan Daily Reporter Zou Zuming Producer/Hu Huayu Editor/Baojin Proofreader/Yan Jiajia Editor/Li Jianqin/[email protected]
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