Chao News client reporter Huang Huixian correspondent Hu Ping
Wang Jiajun patrols in the mountains. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Changing into camouflage uniforms, hanging up a camera, carrying a patrol terminal, walkie-talkie, flashlight and snake medicine in a backpack, he crossed the mountains and mountains into the mountains and forests of the Qianjiangyuan Park (hereinafter referred to as "Qianjiangyuan") in the Qianjiangyuan-Baishanzu National Park Creation Area...... Wang Jiajun, 52 years old this year, has a tanned face, but he is full of energy, and he often has a smile on the corner of his mouth when talking to others. As the deputy head of the comprehensive administrative law enforcement team of Qianjiangyuan National Park, he has maintained the habit of patrolling the mountains every week for many years.
The patrol route can be as short as two or three kilometers and as long as more than 10 kilometers. A few days ago, Wang Jiajun had just crossed the mountains in the Qixi area and completed the patrol work. It is adjacent to Xiuning County, Anhui Province, and is one of the important parts of the source of the Qianjiang River.
"Walk all the way to see how well the patrol trail is maintained, whether there are forest fire hazards, etc., and whether the rain will wash away the trail." Wang Jiajun said that in recent years, people's awareness of environmental protection has increased significantly, and poaching is rare.
It is located at the junction of Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi in Kaihua County, Zhejiang Province, south to Gutian Mountain, north to the source of the Qianjiang River, the two echo from afar, and the ecological zone connected in the middle, involving Suzhuang Town, Changhong Township, Hetian Township and Qixi Town of Kaihua County from south to north, constituting the source of the Qianjiang River of about 252 square kilometers.
As the only pilot area of national parks in the economically developed region of the Yangtze River Delta, how should this "verdant green" be protected? With a very wise reform, Qianjiangyuan has embarked on a unique road of national park construction, and promoted the construction of ecological civilization with innovative practices.
White-necked long-tailed pheasant in Qianjiangyuan National Park. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
For a long time, an important task of culture is to protect the authenticity, integrity and systematic ecology in the region. But problems also followed: the project exit was under great financial pressure; The strong dependence of the people in the mountainous areas on natural resources also makes it more difficult to expropriate collective land.
In the Qianjiangyuan National Park in Kaihua County, collective forest land accounts for 79.6%, involving more than 26,000 villagers. Simply nationalizing collective land requires a huge capital cost on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also easy to cause contradictions between man and land in the course of construction.
Some scholars have compared the original land ownership of other national parks in China: the proportion of state-owned land in Shennongjia, Sanjiangyuan and Pudacuo is as high as 85.8%, 100% and 78.1% respectively, all of which are significantly different from those of Qianjiangyuan. The scholar believes that this is related to its geographical location, the Yangtze River Delta region has many people and little land, resource intensive, and a high degree of collectivization, showing the characteristics of land fragmentation distribution and complex interweaving of ownership.
To this end, in 2018 and 2020, respectively, the Qianjiangyuan National Park Administration took the lead in carrying out the easement reform of collective forest land and rural contracted land in the country, and realized the unified supervision of important natural resources within the national park by establishing a scientific and reasonable compensation mechanism and a community co-management mechanism without changing land ownership.
In other words, the villagers still enjoy the right to use the land independently as agreed in the contract without destroying the natural ecological resources of the Qianjiang River. In addition, according to the relevant person in charge of the Qianjiangyuan National Park Administration, the park will also increase the compensation for public welfare forests to the standard of 55 yuan per mu per year, and on this basis, carry out measures such as providing public welfare posts, industrial assistance, and franchising, so as to increase the income of local villagers and mobilize the enthusiasm of villagers to build a national park.
In April this year, the Qianjiangyuan National Park Administration launched a new round of rural contracted land easement reform signing, expanding the pilot area from 261 mu to 1,200 mu, and raising the compensation standard per mu of farmland from 200 yuan to 800 yuan.
A group of farmers who used to make a living from logging and hunting have turned into forest rangers, silently guarding the green waters and green mountains.
Wang Shulong, a villager from Hongyuan Natural Village, Gutian Village, Suzhuang Town, Kaihua County, is one of them. Today, he is not only an ecological ranger in Qianjiangyuan, but also an infrared camera control technician.
Mother bears and baby bears in Qianjiangyuan National Park. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
"I grew up in this forest since I was a child, and I know where the yellow muntjac likes to drink water and where the wild boar likes to make a nest." Because of this specialty, Wang Shulong is mainly responsible for the installation and card collection of infrared cameras, and many rare animal images captured by infrared cameras have become important first-hand materials for scientific researchers to carry out field surgical examinations, specimen collection and data recording. "Within the source of the Qianjiang River alone, we have deployed more than 1,000 infrared cameras."
Wang Shulong said with a smile. "Now I get two salaries as a ranger and an infrared camera controller; At the same time, because of the easement reform, the family of four can still receive three or four thousand compensation every year, and their life is much more comfortable than before. ”
In recent years, Kaihua has been rated as a national key ecological function zone, a national eco-tourism demonstration zone, and a natural oxygen bar in China. Qianjiangyuan evergreen broad-leaved forest was awarded the only "China's most beautiful forest" in the province, and was selected as the first batch of "clean air demonstration areas" in the province, and the regional brand of Qianjiangyuan was further launched.
The forest coverage rate of Kaihua County will reach 81.12%, 21.7% higher than the provincial average, and in 2023, Kaihua will receive 3.2911 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 33.65%; tourism revenue was 4.058 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.79%.
The source of the Qianjiang River in autumn is still full of vitality. Wang Jiajun approached the map of the Qianjiangyuan control area hanging on the wall of his office, and studied the patrol route for next week. In his opinion, there are still more "treasures" left for them to protect and explore in this vast mountain forest.
Wang Jiajun patrols in the mountains. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
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