Ningxia's ecological environment has posted a brilliant report card

"The proportion of days with excellent ambient air quality in prefecture-level cities has been maintained at more than 80%, prefecture-level cities have achieved full coverage of automatic noise monitoring, the national pollution prevention and control assessment has won an excellent grade for the first time, and the main pollutant emission reduction '14th Five-Year Plan' target tasks have been completed two years ahead of schedule...... "This year's work report of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Government has posted a report card full of gold to protect lucid waters and lush mountains.

In 2023, Ningxia will adhere to the priority of ecology, fight the battle of pollution prevention and control, fight the overall battle of green and low-carbon development, strive to promote green, low-carbon and high-quality development, and successfully complete the annual ecological environment assessment index tasks, and the quality of the ecological environment in the whole autonomous region will continue to improve.

The water quality of the Ningxia section of the Yellow River has been maintained as Class II for 7 consecutive years

Monitoring data show that since 2017, the Ningxia section of the main stream of the Yellow River has maintained Class II excellent water quality for 7 consecutive years, and the excellent proportion of 20 surface water state-controlled sections has reached 80%, successfully completing the assessment targets and tasks issued by the state. Completed the monitoring and traceability of sewage outlets and 30% of the remediation tasks in the list assigned by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment ahead of schedule, and remediated 1,175 sewage outlets into the Yellow River. The city's black and odorous water bodies have been dynamically cleared, and the level of water environment governance has been significantly improved. Following Yinchuan City, Guyuan City has also passed the regional reclaimed water pilot city review.

It is worth mentioning that in 2023, the Yuhe River was selected as the second batch of excellent cases of beautiful rivers and lakes in the country, becoming a veritable river that enjoys national honors. In recent years, in the process of controlling the Chongqing River, Ningxia has focused on source control and sewage interception, strengthened the improvement of sewage outlets along the river, built sewage pipe networks and sewage treatment facilities, and improved the water quality of the Chongqing River from the inferior class V to class II before the treatment through projects such as rain and sewage diversion, river dredging, reservoir dredging, and ecological restoration.

Today's Chongqing River has not only attracted many fish and birds to "settle down", but also become a local ecological corridor, wetland corridor, landscape corridor and economic corridor, achieving a win-win situation of ecological protection and economic development in the basin.

"All you can see is a blue sky. Ms. Wang, who lives in Guyuan City, Ningxia, told reporters that "Guyuan Blue" is super healing, and that kind of blue is refreshing and pure. The reporter noted that in 2023, the proportion of days with good ambient air quality in Ningxia's prefecture-level cities will reach more than 80% for 9 consecutive years, while the proportion of good days in Guyuan City will reach more than 90%, becoming the prefecture-level city with the best "temperament" in Ningxia.

"Ningxia Blue" is inseparable from various measures to take PM2.5 and ozone pollution as the main line and solidly promote the battle to defend the blue sky. In the past year, Ningxia has implemented 243 air pollution prevention and control projects, scrapped and cancelled 32,000 old vehicles, and replaced 156,500 households with loose coal.

According to the latest monitoring data, the annual average concentration of PM2.5 in the autonomous region was 29 micrograms per cubic meter, a decrease of 1 microgram per cubic meter from the previous year, and the proportion of heavily polluted days decreased by 70% year-on-year.

The demonstration of the ecological environment has achieved new results

The hairy-crowned deer appeared for the first time in Liupan Mountain, the jade-banded sea eagle reappeared in Ningxia Shahu, the black-browed willow warbler was seen for the first time in Liupan Mountain, and the infrared camera "encountered" the white-tailed harrier in Helan Mountain...... In recent years, one "surprise" after another has often appeared in major newspapers in Ningxia.

The variety of wild animals and plants has increased, the population has increased, and the regional biodiversity has increased significantly.

Ningxia is a "small province" with a GDP of more than 530 billion yuan, but it is a "big ecological province", with six main types: forest ecosystem, grassland ecosystem, sandy desert ecosystem, wetland ecosystem, agricultural ecosystem and urban ecosystem. The special mission of maintaining the ecological security of the northwest and even the whole country.

In 2023, Ningxia will anchor the goal of ecological civilization demonstration and creation in the forefront of the Yellow River region, and promote the demonstration and creation of ecological civilization with high quality in accordance with the general idea of "highlighting characteristic advantages, strengthening top-level design, filling in the gaps in creation, forming a creation echelon, improving the quality of creation, and amplifying ecological effects". Cities, counties (districts), townships (towns), and points (positions) with unique themes will create echelons, and strive to create a model of ecological civilization with regional characteristics and create a model of Ningxia.

Yanchi County, located at the southern edge of the Mu Us Desert, is a key county in the national "Three Norths" shelterbelt system. After years of desertification prevention and control, as well as ecological restoration and management, more than 2 million acres of desertified land in the county have been effectively controlled, more than 300 acres of open sand dunes have been basically eliminated, and the forest coverage rate and grassland comprehensive vegetation coverage have reached 27.36% and 58.5% respectively, which are higher than the average level of the whole region. In 2023, Yanchi County won the title of the seventh batch of national ecological civilization construction demonstration zones.

"There are no birds in the sky, no grass grows on the ground, no one on the beach, and the wind blows the sand grains", which used to be used to describe the former Gobi desert where Minning Town, Yongning County, Yinchuan City, is located. Minning Town has beautified the appearance of the countryside, built a solid ecological foundation, and accumulated "Jinshan Yinshan" capital through the Yellow River to raise water, Juncao to fix sand, improve soil, and plant trees to create greenery. In 2023, Minning Town will be named the seventh batch of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" practice and innovation bases. In the past, "dry beach", today "golden beach", Minning Town has not only become a "model town" for ecological migration and east-west cooperation in poverty alleviation, but also a benchmark for ecological environment governance and ecological demonstration creation.

Up to now, Ningxia has 3 ecological civilization construction demonstration zones and 6 "Two Mountains" practice and innovation bases.

Consolidate the foundation for ecological and green development

Strictly control the access to environmental protection and hold the first line of defense for lucid waters and lush mountains.

Centralized examination and approval, door-to-door service, start construction of a number of major environmental protection projects, innovate the "three batches" work model, and deepen the four-level linkage of environmental impact assessment and approval. At the beginning of 2023, Ningxia Ecological Environment will play a "combination punch" of environmental protection services, and promote high-level protection of the regional ecological environment and high-quality economic development with pragmatic measures.

Realize the full coverage of the planning and environmental impact assessment of 22 industrial parks, improve the intrinsic environmental protection and safety level of the industrial park as a whole, ensure that the environmental impact assessment and approval of coal mines are at the forefront of the country, follow up and guide the assistance of special personnel and special classes, complete the environmental impact assessment and approval of Dingjialiang Coal Mine, Hongsi Coal Mine and other projects, and add 2.5 million tons of coal production capacity in the autonomous region. The number of approvals for the "two high" projects has dropped three times in a row, with a year-on-year decrease of 50%.

Wuzhong City has continuously improved the low-carbon development system, mechanism and model from the aspects of industrial structure optimization and upgrading, clean energy system construction, etc., and stood out among the 81 national low-carbon city pilot cities in the country, and was rated as an "excellent" city in the national low-carbon city pilot city, forming a replicable and referenceable experience of low-carbon city development in Ningxia. Outstanding cases of carbon emission reform were shared at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

We will build a "1+N+X" policy system for carbon peaking, and continue to cultivate new drivers of green development. The installed capacity of new energy accounted for 51%, and the utilization rate reached 97%. 172 green parks, factories, mines and green power parks have been created. The existing installed capacity of photovoltaic and wind power can meet the needs of the town, and Minning Town has become the first "green power town" in Northwest China, taking a solid step towards the goal of a carbon-neutral town.

At the same time, Ningxia is also actively integrated into the national carbon emission trading market, with a total of 29 enterprises participating in carbon emission trading in the second compliance cycle, with a trading volume of 11.29 million tons and a total turnover of 764 million yuan. Revised and improved policies and systems such as the management measures for the trading of emission rights, formulated a simple process for the trading of small emission projects, and traded 277 transactions with 31.08 million yuan throughout the year, ranking in the forefront of the provinces and regions along the Yellow River.

Pollution reduction and carbon reduction and green development are inseparable from capital investment. In 2023, Ningxia's Eco-Environment-Oriented Development Model (EOD) project will achieve another success, with two projects included in the central ecological and environmental protection financial support project reserve, with a total investment of 5.231 billion yuan. Actively explore the "government-bank-enterprise" cooperation model, with 8 cooperative financial institutions, a total of more than 20 billion yuan of green credit, and a commitment of more than 50 billion yuan of green credit during the cooperation period.