Green butterfly transformation under the heavy equipment of a great power--written on the third anniversary of the first batch of units of Baihetan Hydropower Station on Jinsha River being put into operation for power generation
On June 28, 2021, the first batch of units of Baihetan Hydropower Station in Jinsha River were put into operation safely on time. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his congratulatory letter: Baihetan Hydropower Station is a major national project to implement the "West-to-East Power Transmission" and is under construction in the world today. The largest and most technically difficult hydropower project. The world's largest single-unit capacity and power million-kilowatt hydro-generator set has achieved a major breakthrough in my country's high-end equipment manufacturing.
Over the past three years, Baihetan Hydropower Station has achieved significant social and economic benefits in flood control, flood control, power generation, etc., making important contributions to promoting my country's goal of achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and comprehensively promoting the comprehensive green transformation of local economic and social development.
On the occasion of the third anniversary of the commissioning of the first batch of units of Baihetan Hydropower Station on the Jinsha River for power generation, the reporter came to Qiaojia County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, to witness the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in the Dongfeng Qiaojia Reservoir Area, which is riding on the heavy equipment of a great power.
The vast river water brings billowing green electricity, and the world's largest clean energy corridor continues to exert ecological benefits
The Jinsha River galloped from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, all the way south, and crashed into the Grand Canyon of the Hengduan Mountains; the natural drop of 5100 meters accounted for 95% of the total drop of the main stream of the Yangtze River, and contained abundant hydropower resources.
Standing on the dam of Baihetan Hydropower Station, the dam under your feet is like a giant's shoulder, taking you to look at the mountains on both sides of the bank and overlooking the Jinsha River in the canyon. The water pours down along the sun, and the blue waves rippling and egrets dancing everywhere it passes., full of vitality.
Baihetan Hydropower Station has a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts and is the second largest hydropower station in the world. It is known as the world's largest hydropower station in terms of "the world's largest unit capacity of hydro-generators, the world's largest underground cavern group scale, the scale of pressure-free flood discharge tunnel group, and the 300-meter-high dam. Seismic parameters and the scale of cylindrical tailrace surge tanks rank first in the world. For the first time in the world, low-heat cement concrete has been used in the entire dam of a 300-meter-high arch dam." These six firsts in the world are known as the "Everest" of the world's hydropower industry.
This "Everest" of the world's hydropower industry is also a "pioneer" of green development.
Wang Bin, senior engineer of the Three Gorges Group Yangtze River Electric Power Baihetan Power Plant, told reporters that in recent years, the world's largest clean energy corridor composed of Baihetan and Wudongde, Xiangjiaba, Xiluodu, Three Gorges, Gezhouba, etc. has routinely carried out cascade reservoirs every year. More than 10 ecological dispatch tests have injected new momentum into protecting biodiversity in the basin. 2023-2024 During the annual dry season, the world's largest clean energy corridor has replenished more than 30 billion cubic meters of water downstream, equivalent to 2100 West Lake water volumes, 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-generator units, with a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts and an average multi-year power generation of 62.443 billion kilowatt hours.
As of the end of March this year, Baihetan Hydropower Station has generated more than 120 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, equivalent to reducing standard coal consumption 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 introduced that on December 20, 2022, as the last million-kilowatt unit of Baihetan Hydropower Station was put into operation for power generation, this green corridor consisting of Wudongde, Baihetan, Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba, Three Gorges, Gezhouba, etc., spans more than 1800 kilometers, has a water level drop of more than 900 meters, a total of 110 hydro-generator units are in continuous operation, and has an average annual power generation capacity of approximately 300 billion kilowatt-hours. In order to ensure flood control, shipping, water supply, The role of ecology and energy security has been further exerted.
Immigrants in the reservoir area achieve employment and wealth at home based on livable environment and ecological industries
Walking into Dazhai Town, Qiaojia County, neat and beautiful new villas rise from the ground, spacious and clean hardened roads, and clusters of vibrant green trees emerge... All of this was developed in just a few years with the construction of Baihetan Hydropower Station.
Dazhai Town is the township where the dam of Baihetan Hydropower Station is located. It is located on the "halfway up the mountain" to the right side of the dam site of Baihetan Hydropower Station. The name of the power station is named after the Baihetan Group in Duoche Village, Dazhai Town. At the same time, Dazhai Town was the first to start physical indicator surveys, transition relocation, signing relocation agreements, and completion of relocation tasks during the construction of Baihetan Hydropower Station.
In order to allow immigrants to live a happy and livable life, Dazhai Town adheres to ecological priority and green development, strives to create a livable environment and improve the happiness index of residents.
Dazhai Town invested nearly 500 million yuan in the best location in the market town to scientifically plan and build villa homes for immigrants. The townhouses are planned scientifically and ecologically and livable. Greening, lighting, beautification and "one water and two pollutants" projects have been implemented successively, and the construction of hiking trails in the resettlement area and Anlan Cultural Square has been completed. We will make every effort to carry out greening projects on the mountains along the river and on both sides of the highways around the power station construction, and carry out monthly tree planting activities of "monthly tree planting, greening and beautification". With 206 villager groups as the basic grid and 4 areas of market town as exclusive grids, a grid management system has been established to comprehensively carry out improvement of the living environment.
At present, the infrastructure of the town has been greatly improved, and the market town area has doubled, forming a business model centered on Baihe Street and radiating surrounding development. The well-organized immigrant "small villas" complement each other with the ancient Anlan Cultural Town.
The people's living environment is ecologically livable. How to make the people get rich through ecology has become a "must-answer question" for the high-quality development of Dazhai Town.
Dazhai Town insists on enriching the town with industry and tourism, actively attracting investment, revitalizing existing resources, and investing in and developing Majiao, Hongyan, Aijiacun Scenic Platform, Baihe Yandao, Jishui Anlan Cultural Square, Small Great Wall, Yi Village and other high-quality rural tourism attractions, forming characteristic business formats such as hydropower themed tourism, eco-tourism, and extreme sports tours, creating a town for power station sightseeing and diverse cultural and tourism integration experience tourism.
At the same time, Dazhai Town is based on local characteristics to create a number of specialty agricultural product brands such as "Houjia Rice Flower","Xiaojia Pickles","Dazhai Noodles" and "Canna Potatoes", and has built an agricultural specialty product trading market to drive the development of more than 10 specialty brand agricultural products The production and sales of specialty brand agricultural products have led to the sales of 30,000 acres of pepper, 20,000 acres of walnuts and a large number of specialty products such as black potatoes, red rice, and ginger and plum in the town.
With the help of industry and tourism, Dazhai Town's B & Bs, hotels and farmhouses are developing vigorously, and residents enjoy the benefits brought by tourism together. Since 2023, through the development of tourism, the town has attracted more than 100,000 tourists from all over the country to visit the jurisdiction, driving the county to achieve tourism revenue of hundreds of millions of yuan.
The beautiful butterfly transformation in Dazhai Town is just a microcosm of the economic benefits released by Qiaojia County by doing enough ecological work.
In Wenbi Community in Menggu Town, Qiaojia County, more than 5100 people from more than 1590 households have been resettled from the Yunnan Reservoir Area of Baihetan Hydropower Station. In order to allow the relocated people to live and work in peace and contentment, Wenbi Community has built a national clothing factory, a new material processing factory and an agricultural science and technology demonstration park by integrating funds and introducing enterprises to help immigrants find jobs at home and achieve the goal of increasing income and caring for their families.
Jintang Town, Qiaojia County, sits on more than 3000 acres of cultivated land and more than 30,000 acres of forest land. It is rich in plantains, mangoes, citrus, sericulture, pepper, etc., and is rich in hot spring resources. In recent years, Jintang Town has mainly selected fruit tree species with strong economic benefits in terms of green tree species, vigorously developed specialty fruits such as mangoes and plantains, played a good role in the development of specialty industries, and "using fruits as a medium" around the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, gradually embarked on a road of rural revitalization that enriches farmers by industry, develops agriculture through tourism, and integrates agriculture and tourism.
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Ma Shunbin, deputy director of the Culture and Tourism Bureau of Qiaojia County, told reporters that in the next step, the county will also improve the urban spatial structure, do a good job in "diverting water into the city and moistening the city with water", optimize the planning and layout of waterside towns and villages, actively develop a tourism and health care industry system featuring tropical climate, lakes and mountains, health care, leisure vacations, and folk culture, and create a collection of hydropower science popularization, ecological tourism, cultural experience, outdoor sports, agricultural leisure, The landscape tourism belt integrating cold avoidance, health care and other functions will fully promote the construction of the tourism complex in the reservoir area of Baihetan Hydropower Station in Qiaojia County.
Polish the ecological background and continue to improve the quality of the ecological environment
The Beimen Binjiang Park in the early morning is a beautiful scenic spot for Qiaojia. On the tree-lined road, some people are running and riding, some are doing Tai Chi, some people find friends to sit down and chat... Everyone is enjoying the happiness of "the city is in the mountains and rivers, and the people are in the park". life.
"In the past, as long as the wind blew up here, people couldn't open their eyes. The environment is much better now, with blue skies and white clouds, green mountains and clear waters. Living in such a beautiful environment, everyone feels a lot better." Ms. Chen, who lives in the Beimen resettlement area, said with a smile.
Yang Boming, director of Qiaojia Branch of the Ecological Environment Bureau of Zhaotong City, told reporters that in recent years, Qiaojia County has focused on improving environmental quality, solidly promoted the implementation of various tasks in the blue sky defense war, and made every effort to prevent and control dust, soot and exhaust gas pollution. In 2023, Qiaojia's ambient air quality rate will reach 98.9%, ranking first in the city.
At the same time, Qiaojia County strives to promote the "four-water joint management" of drinking water, river water, lake water and sewage, and implements "rain and sewage diversion"; strictly implements the river (lake) chief system and builds a three-level river chief system with the county party committee secretary as the chief river chief and the county magistrate 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 special actions for river basin management and protection, strengthen the investigation and rectification of sewage outlets, and strictly standardize and approve the establishment of sewage outlets into rivers for industrial and mining enterprises and urban sewage treatment plants. At present, the water quality of water samples at the Jinsha River and Niulan River (Qiaojia Section) sections has reached Class III water quality or above, and the excellent water quality rate continues to remain at 100%, so that clear water from one river can be produced in Qiaojia, with "smooth river, clear water, green shore, beautiful scenery" can be seen everywhere.
Whether the ecology is good or not, the vitality of rare wild animals and plants among the green waters and green mountains is the best testimony.
Not long ago, the chestnut-throated bee tigers, known as "the most beautiful bird in China", appeared on the Jinsha River in Qiujiayu Community, Qiaojia County as scheduled. They either spread their wings and flew, or stayed for food, and the chirping of the birds was crisp and pleasant.
"The species and number of birds are important indicators for judging the ecological quality of a region. Chestnut throated bee tigers migrate to Qiaojia from other places every year, mainly because Qiaojia adapts to their survival along the Jinsha River, which shows that Qiaojia's excellent ecological environment has been recognized." Tang Yong, director of the Yuping Street Forestry Station, further stated that we have also arranged bird keepers to conduct monitoring inspections to protect their habitats.
In recent years, Qiaojia has also designated 1.3417 million acres of ecological protection red lines, 2 nature reserves (lands), and 3 priority areas and key areas for biodiversity protection. It has solidly carried out the expansion and propagation of the "giant panda in the botanical world" Qiaojia five-needle pine. Research, migration and protection of the habitat of the "most beautiful migratory bird" chestnut throated bee tiger, demarcation and patrol of the "plateau fairy" black-necked crane, artificial proliferation and release of fish in the Jinsha River Basin, releasing 1.71 million silver carp and bighead carp and other fish. Qiaojia Five-needle pine trees have grown from 34 wild plants to more than 4000 surviving breeding and transplanting. The county's typical ecosystems and rare wild animals and plants have been effectively protected.
The vast river water brings rolling green electricity, which makes local people rich, and the excellent ecology attracts rare wild animals to inhabit... Since the first batch of units of Baihetan Hydropower Station were put into operation for three years ago, it has not only been a answer written among the green waters and green mountains, but also a answer written in the hearts of the people.
