Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu: Use green freehand brushwork to focus on the ecological civilized city
"Let me tell you privately that just last week, I had my fourth date with the Aurora Parrot in Zhangjiagang Bay." At the recently held June Five-Year Environment Day theme event in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, bird photographer Xu Guozhong shared the story of his adventure with the "bird giant panda" of the Sinian Bird."In recent years, Zhangjiagang City has insisted on 'jointly focusing on large-scale protection and not engaging in large-scale development'. National-level protected animals frequently appear along the Yangtze River in Zhangjiagang. The ecological environment of the port city is getting better and better, and the Sinian Bird's home is getting more and more beautiful."
It is not the only one who likes to come to Zhangjiagang to settle down. According to the latest Zhangjiagang Biodiversity Survey data, a total of 1216 species have been found in Zhangjiagang City, involving 9 groups. Among them are many endemic birds to China such as blackbird and yellow-bellied tit, as well as a large number of rare species such as national second-class key protected birds. More and more wild animals are "settling down" in Hong Kong City, which has become a strong witness to Zhangjiagang's continued protection of the ecological environment and construction of ecological civilization for many years.
As the only county-level city in the country that has been awarded the title of "National Civilized City" for six consecutive years, Zhangjiagang unswervingly follows the modernization path of ecological priority and green development, implements ecological livable projects across the region, promotes industrial green transformation as a whole, and jointly builds and shares green life by all people., use green freehand brushwork to focus on the ecological civilized city.
Use green as a pen to accurately depict the beautiful port city
A river with clear water and beautiful scenery. Zhangjiagang Bay in early summer ushered in its most beautiful moment. The vegetation is lush, the egrets are fluttering, and the scenery is everywhere when you move. Not far away, citizens and tourists take a leisurely walk, fly kites, and enjoy their "date" with nature.
The 12-kilometer-long Zhangjiagang Bay is the last big bend before the Yangtze River enters the sea. Once upon a time, it was densely packed with 8 industrial terminals and 70,000-square-meter storage yards. Dust, sewage, noise, etc. polluted the surrounding environment, making it an unavoidable "industrial rust belt".
In 2019, Zhangjiagang launched the "Zhangjiagang Bay" ecological improvement project. Through the three major projects of "covering embankment slopes with green, returning beaches to rivers, and afforestation", all the "production shoreline" along the line will be adjusted to "ecological shoreline" to create a 1.4 million square meters of riverside hydrophilic landscape belt.
The green butterfly transformation in Zhangjiagang Bay is a beautiful footnote for the port city to protect the mother river of the Yangtze River and practice the concept of "jointly focusing on large-scale protection and not engaging in large-scale development". Behind it, Zhangjiagang is guided by ecological engineering and builds a solid foundation for ecological civilization. Big hand.
In recent years, Zhangjiagang City has relied on key project construction projects such as Zhangjiagang Bay, Huangsipu Ecological Park, Dabodun Wetland Park, and Xinhaiba Ecological Wetland Park to accelerate afforestation and rural afforestation along the Yangtze River. At the same time, it has carried out in-depth greening projects in conjunction with various road and river construction projects. In the past five years, a total of 8,623.05 acres of afforestation area has been completed, and the forest coverage rate has increased from 19.84% to 20.36%. Last year alone, The afforestation area was 852.15 acres, of which 202 acres were newly planted along the Yangtze River.
Nowadays, the "giant panda in the water" finless porpoise comes to "check in" from time to time, the "giant panda among the birds" and the Sinian sparrow often comes to "settle down", and the "nature elves" witness the green butterfly transformation of the Hong Kong city's ecological environment towards beauty.
According to observations, as of now, more than 300 species of birds have been found in Zhangjiagang. Among the 51 new bird records discovered in Suzhou in the past five years, 21 are from Zhangjiagang River area, including multiple national first-level and second-level animals.
Zhangjiagang also brings "green" to every citizen. Since 2021, the city will continue to further promote the construction of "micro-renewal" projects for urban greening, making full use of both sides of roads in the Urban area, street corners, and idle land around old communities to build "pocket parks" to ensure citizens travel."See green at 300 meters and see gardens at 500 meters." As of the end of last year, the urban green coverage rate of Gangcheng was 43.11%, and the per capita park green area reached 18.03 square meters.
Mountains and rivers depend on each other and green moistens the city. This is a vivid annotation of the "two mountains"; the water is clear and the banks are green, and the fish and birds are gathering, becoming a wonderful freehand impression of the civilized port city laying the ecological green carpet.
Carefully calculate carefully and decode the "equation" of green transformation
Surrounded by green trees, verdant vegetation, and flying birds are guests. Who would have thought that such an ecological beauty would be fixed in the factory area of an established steel company like Yonggang Group? In the small pond, koi carp shuttled and played in the water and competed to find food. Who would have thought that the crystal clear water of this pond actually came from the factory's production wastewater?
Zhang Tao, production director of the water treatment workshop of the Energy Division of Yonggang Group, said that Yonggang has built two efficiently operating sewage treatment plants, which can "regenerate" 40,000 tons of sewage per day, which is equivalent to the capacity of 16 standard swimming pools., the recycling rate of industrial wastewater reaches more than 99%, basically achieving "zero discharge" of sewage.
In Jiangsu Shagang Group, this energy-saving account is calculated more carefully. Through technological innovation, companies have launched ultra-thin belt production lines. The entire production line is only 50 meters short, which is one-sixteenth of that of a traditional production line. Unit fuel consumption is reduced by 95%, water consumption is reduced by 80%, and carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by three-quarters. Each carefully calculated ecological account solves the "equation" for the green transformation of Zhangjiagang's industrial structure.
To promote the optimization of industrial structure and "green adjustment", Zhangjiagang focuses on technological upgrading on one hand and on the other hand on "vacating cages and replacing birds".
In 2023, three steel companies in Zhangjiagang will have full-process ultra-low emission renovations and announced them, becoming the first batch of counties and cities in the province to complete all ultra-low emission renovations in the steel industry; nine companies have been selected as green factories in Jiangsu Province, and the number of shortlisted companies has reached a record high. Eighty-three chemical companies have closed down and exited, and the enrollment rate of chemical companies has reached 82.5%. Jiangsu Yangzijiang International Chemical Industrial Park has passed the provincial chemical park certification review for the first batch; Dongsha Chemical Park, 4 kilometers away from the Yangtze River, is the province's first complete system closure The chemical park has freed up nearly 3000 acres of construction land to build Jiangnan Intelligent Equipment Industrial Park.
Ecological and environmental protection is the red line to protect the healthy and sustainable development of cities, and can also serve as a business competitiveness to promote high-quality development of the regional economy. In recent years, while Zhangjiagang strictly controls environmental protection access for projects, it has innovatively launched measures such as regional spatial ecological environment assessment (referred to as "regional environmental assessment"), bundling environmental assessment, and planning environmental assessment, opening up a green channel for the implementation of "technology-based, environmentally friendly, and resource-saving" industrial projects. Last year alone, 114 projects in the city shared monitoring data through regional environmental assessments, which reduced the burden on enterprises by more than 2 million yuan and reduced the cost of enterprise approval.
"The vast majority of projects that enjoy the 'regional environmental assessment' are in line with the development direction of our city's '4+4' industrial chain and are closely linked to new productivity." The relevant person in charge of the Zhangjiagang Ecological Environment Bureau said that in the future, it will continue to optimize the environmental protection approval and approval process, provide all-round support to enterprises in terms of project implementation, financial support, credit repair, etc., and coordinate the promotion of high-quality economic development and high-level protection of the ecological environment. Promote the simultaneous improvement of the "gold content" and "green content" of the economic development of Hong Kong and City.
Co-construction and sharing to practice green and environmentally friendly "new life"
Compare old and new photos of the Hong Kong City style to feel the changes in the hometown environment; distribute environmental protection puzzles to increase environmental protection knowledge in the game... At the Zhangjiagang Ecological Environment Education Center that was opened not long ago, the 200-square-meter environmental protection space makes full use of graphics, sound and light, Intelligent equipment and new media technology spread the concept of ecological civilization. The simultaneously opened Zhangjiagang City Youth Ecological Culture Education Base guides young people to establish green development concepts through a variety of activities and courses and injects new vitality into the construction of ecological civilization.
Root in the concept of ecological development and share a green and beautiful life. Zhangjiagang integrates the construction of ecological civilization into citizens 'lives, awakening the ecological consciousness of Hong Kong City citizens to "protect the environment and start with me."
The Zhangjiagang Ecological Environment Bureau of Suzhou City has established the "Gangcheng Green Iron Army Rule of Law Propaganda Group" to go to towns, enterprises, and schools to publicize environmental protection policies and disseminate environmental protection knowledge on the front line; Zhangjiagang High-tech Zone (Tangqiao Town) has released ecological and environmental protection science popularization research points, allowing citizens to experience the beauty of the city's ecology while walking and check in on ecological civilization knowledge; Nanfeng Town Jiancun has set up a "Hemei Rural Style Environmental Protection Post" in villagers 'homes to guide villagers to develop good habits of garbage sorting by exchanging recyclable garbage for daily necessities; Chenghang Primary School launches a "Green Seed" growth course to let children experience the beauty of life and the importance of protecting the environment through a small plant seed... In Zhangjiagang, ecological civilization is no longer a rigid concept, but a lifestyle that everyone yearns for and actively practices.
Zhangjiagang has also vigorously carried out activities to create conservation-saving organs and demonstration towns and villages for ecological civilization construction, and promoted environmental protection public welfare actions such as "Action CD" and "Rebirth of Old Things". Environmental protection actions have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, bringing together "ecological civilization and national participation." The majestic power. Among them, tens of thousands of environmental volunteers are the well-deserved backbone.
During the recently held volunteer service activity with the theme of "Protecting the Yangtze River in Law: Walking Together with You and Me", more than 80 environmental protection volunteers walked onto the river embankment, picked up garbage, and used practical actions to "beautify" the mother river.
"I often participate with my parents and feel that participating in environmental activities gives me a special sense of accomplishment." At the event site, primary school student Sun Jingyi excitedly told reporters that she had picked up a plastic bottle weighing about 5 kilograms. "I'm going to send them to a recycling company and turn them from garbage to 'baby'."
In April 2018, Zhangjiagang established the Municipal Environmental Protection Volunteer Association, focusing on promoting the construction of a national action system for ecological and environmental governance, deeply integrating environmental protection publicity, education and interactive practice, sending the concept of ecological civilization to enterprises and households, and contributing to the construction of a shared beautiful port city at a higher level.
As of June 3, 2024, the Zhangjiagang City Environmental Protection Volunteer Association has carried out a total of 1468 ecological and environmental volunteer service activities, with 17774 volunteers participating. The total volunteer service duration is 40665 hours and the audience reaches 211833 people.
From becoming the country's first "Environmental Protection Model City" to winning the first "United Nations Habitat Award" in a county-level city, to being successfully selected into the Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration Zone in Jiangsu Province, Zhangjiagang has always deeply implemented the concept of "Two Mountains" and promoted green and high-quality economic and social development, making ecological civilization the brightest business card of a beautiful port city.
