Meizhou Pingyuan: Amplify the advantages of "green" and promote the steady and far-reaching development of ecological civilization
Surrounded by green mountains and green water, the city is surrounded by green water. Pingyuan County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, is a national key ecological function zone, and over the years, Pingyuan County has practiced the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", and has consistently and unswervingly taken the road of ecological priority and green development. In particular, taking the opportunity of creating a national ecological civilization construction demonstration zone, Pingyuan County adheres to the two bottom lines of development and ecology, deeply fights the battle of pollution prevention and control, promotes the green and low-carbon transformation of development mode, highlights the leadership of green and beautiful Guangdong, and polishes the bright background of high-quality development. On October 28, at the annual meeting of the China Ecological Civilization Forum in Jinan, Pingyuan County, Meizhou City, was named the seventh batch of ecological civilization construction demonstration zones by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
Planning and leading, drawing an "ecological blueprint"
On October 29, more than 1,000 hiking enthusiasts from 17 counties (cities and districts) in Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces gathered in Pingyuan County, Meizhou City to participate in the 14th Beijing International Mountain Trekking Conference Meizhou Pingyuan Station in 2023.
"The mountains and rivers here are so beautiful, I will come back in the future. "During the hike, the participants experienced the charm of hiking while enjoying the scenery along the way. The ecological beauty praised by the apprentices is a microcosm of the construction of ecological civilization in Pingyuan.
The reporter learned that Pingyuan is the only sub-station of the Beijing International Mountain Hiking Conference in Guangdong Province, relying on the superior natural ecological resource endowment, Pingyuan County is committed to building the event into an influential boutique event.
As a national key ecological function area, Pingyuan County has a forest coverage rate of 77.55%, including Guangdong Nantaishan National Forest Park, Guangdong Pingyuan Longwen-Huangtian Provincial Nature Reserve, and important tributaries of the Hanjiang River system, Yushu River and Huangtian Reservoir, etc., and has won the titles of National Forest Tourism Demonstration County, National Greening Model County, National Forest Health Care Base, etc., and was awarded the State Council Forest Chief System Incentive County in May 2023, which is one of the eight units in the country and the only unit in the province.
Longwen-Huangtian Provincial Nature Reserve in Pingyuan County
Regarding ecological resources as the most valuable resources and ecological advantages as the most competitive advantages, Pingyuan County firmly grasps the important opportunity of the central government to support Meizhou's integration into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to accelerate the revitalization and development, adheres to the concept of green development, based on the characteristics of the county, and compiles the "National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration County Plan for Pingyuan County, Meizhou City (2022-2030)" with high quality, and systematically plans eight major ecological environment quality improvement projects. The latest technology does a good job in the top-level design of Pingyuan's medium and long-term ecological civilization construction, and builds an ecological civilization construction system such as ecological system, security, space, economy, life, and culture.
Adhering to the principle of "development in protection and protection in development", Pingyuan has continuously strengthened the protection and restoration of the ecosystem, and made every effort to build a "delicate small city, beautiful Pingyuan" where man and nature coexist in harmony.
Green escort, fight the "three major battles"
"It's a bit of a big change, and it feels like the whole county has become beautiful. This year, the masses who returned to Pingyuan County from other places have expressed the same feelings.
In recent years, the urban construction of Pingyuan has continued to develop, but the construction of urban drainage pipe network is relatively lagging behind, urban waterlogging, and black and odorous water bodies have become prominent shortcomings restricting urban development. In 2022, Pingyuan seized the opportunity of the issuance of local government special bonds and actively sought funds to implement the comprehensive improvement project of urban drainage and waterlogging and sewage quality and efficiency. The living environment in urban areas has been continuously improved, and the quality of life of residents has been continuously improved.
"Pingyuan adheres to the development strategy of 'ecological county' unswervingly, deeply promotes the prevention and control of environmental pollution, and fights the battle of blue sky, clear water and pure land. Based on the actual work of ecological and environmental protection in the county, we should keep an eye on the goals and tasks, strengthen work measures, and continue to improve the quality of the ecological environment. Chen Qiming, director of the Pingyuan Branch of the Meizhou Ecological Environment Bureau, said.
From 2020 to 2022, the ecological quality index (EQI) level of Pingyuan was "excellent", and the ecosystem continued to be stable. In 2022, it successfully passed the national ecological quality assessment and received 196 million yuan of central ecological compensation. The excellent air quality rate in the urban area has been maintained at 100% for a long time, ranking first in Meizhou City for seven consecutive years and third in Guangdong Province in 2022. The excellent water quality rate of the provincial control section of the main rivers, the centralized drinking water sources of the county and the rural drinking water sources of the county reached 100%, and there were no inferior surface water bodies of Class V water and black and odorous water bodies in the urban areas, and the water environment quality of the county continued to improve.
Ecological restoration of Shizheng River, Shizheng Town, Pingyuan County
Global rectification, giving birth to "rural butterfly change"
In Jiaokeng Village, Bachi Town, Pingyuan County, walking on the clean and tidy village road, I saw the village houses with blue tiles and white walls and green water and green mountains, the crystal clear river water gurgling and flowing, the woods were lush and green, and the full fruits hung on the branches, constituting a beautiful landscape idyll.
"I never dreamed that Jiaokeng Village would change so much. Uncle Xiao, who lived in the county seat before, saw the changes in his hometown and called for moving back to live. He had the impression that there were some cattle pens, pigsties, and earthen toilets along the roads in the village before, and the environment was dirty and messy, and the water flowing in the ditch was also muddy and smelly. "Now that the mountains are greener, the water is greener, and the villages are more beautiful, we are willing to come back and live. ”
These changes are due to the promotion of rural human settlements in Pingyuan County, and a series of renovation projects such as road quality improvement projects, sewage treatment, toilet renovation, garbage disposal, courtyard wall painting, and lighting projects have been actively carried out.
According to reports, Pingyuan County has fully completed the "three clearances, three demolitions and three rectifications", 100% of the county's natural villages have reached the standard of cleanliness and tidiness, the penetration rate of harmless sanitary household toilets in rural areas is 100%, the rural centralized water supply has basically achieved full coverage, and the coverage rate of sewage treatment facilities in administrative villages has reached 73.5%.
Pingyuan County also adheres to the demonstration and guidance, and builds the Shizheng Provincial New Rural Contiguous Demonstration Project, the "20+10" demonstration village, 39 "Siyan" villages and "Two Lines and Eight Towns" year by year, forming a number of beautiful villages with their own beauty and beauty, and has won the honors of China's most beautiful county, advanced county of national village cleaning action, and "Beautiful Rural Landscape Improvement Demonstration Belt" in Guangdong Province, and Pingyuan County Party Committee has been rated as an advanced collective for rural revitalization in Guangdong Province.
She Nao Village, Shangju Town, Pingyuan County, is picturesque.
Ecological leadership, helping to "turn green into gold"
In the lush mountain forests of Shizheng Town, Pingyuan County, patches of plum trees grow leaves and sway in the wind. These humble leaves are the "golden leaves" of the local people's income - the branches and leaves of the plum tree are rich in dextroborneol (i.e., natural borneol), which is a rare medicinal material, an important industrial raw material and a high-grade spice.
Previously, Mashan Village in the mountains and forests was a "coal mining village", and after the mine was closed, many farmers faced the problem of reemployment. Since 2013, the government has introduced enterprises to guide local farmers to plant plum trees and develop the plum slice industry. In order to stimulate farmers' enthusiasm for planting, the local government has also introduced an interest-free subsidy policy and introduced a guaranteed purchase by biotechnology companies. At present, there are more than 30,000 acres of raw material forests for plum trees in Pingyuan, with an output value of 250 million yuan.
Pingyuan County adheres to ecological priority, conservation and intensive, green and low-carbon development, makes every effort to strengthen the real economy, and promotes the revitalization and common prosperity of the Soviet area.
At present, Pingyuan is focusing on building a leading industry of 10 billion advanced materials with copper foil and copper clad laminates, new rare earth materials, and calcium-based silicon-based as the core, and innovating and developing emerging and traditional advantageous industries such as electronic information, equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, new energy, and alcoholic beverages.
A number of projects represented by Yinghua high-performance copper clad laminates with a total investment of 3.6 billion yuan have been put into operation, and a number of projects represented by the green calcium-based industrial park with a total investment of 10 billion yuan have started construction.
The Pingyuan County Government said that the success of being among the ranks of the national ecological civilization construction demonstration zones highlights Pingyuan's courage and vision to seize the opportunities of green development, and also sounded the war drum of Damei Pingyuan to accelerate high-quality development. Pingyuan County will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, adhere to the path of ecological priority and green development, amplify the advantages of "green", lay a solid foundation for development, improve the quality of development, and promote the steady and far-reaching development of ecological civilization.
