Wuhan is planted with a green background to create a beautiful home

Investigate the improvement of the patrol river 

"Carbon Exploration Wuchangya" Ecological Civilization Education Practice Course 

Joint inspection of oil and gas recovery at gas stations 

Inspect the outlet of Shahu Lake

On the right bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a thousand-year-old city, full of the romance of Chu Ci, impregnated with the ethereal poetry and immortals, and the thousand-year-old cultural context is flourishing in Si.

Leaning on the mountains and lakes and rivers, it has a unique geographical aura. The pursuit of excellence, dare to be the first, inheriting the historical glory of our ancestors.

The development of modern industry and science and technology in Wuhan has laid the foundation for the century-old prosperity of Wuhan University and continued the profound blood of science and education.

Located in Wuchang District, the center of Wuhan City, it is the seat of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government. In 2023, the ancient city of Wuchang will be founded in 1800. For five consecutive years, Wuchang's GDP has ranked first in the whole city center. In 2022, the regional GDP will exceed 175 billion yuan, and it is expected to exceed 190 billion yuan in 2023. Wuchang District has built a solid and full economic pattern with sufficient "gold content".

In recent years, Wuchang District has thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, coordinated efforts to promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth, fed the city's green transformation with economic development, supported high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment, and strived to make Wuchang's contribution to the comprehensive promotion of the construction of a beautiful China.

On October 8, 2023, at the city's ecological and environmental protection conference, Wuchang District, as a representative of the central urban area, introduced the work experience of the integration of production, life and ecology, and the compatibility of "water" and "green".

On October 31, Wuchang District held a conference on ecological and environmental protection in the whole district to plan to comprehensively promote the construction of beautiful Wuchang in the coming period. Wuchang District resolutely adheres to the bottom line of environmental safety, strives to promote green economic development, and actively builds a beautiful Wuhan Pilot Zone.

Actively explore the path of Wuchang to support high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment in the central urban area of a megacity, and continue to strive to become a national ecological civilization construction demonstration zone.

"Forest Breathing" in the City

On October 28, the ancient city of Wuchang ushered in an epic urban construction municipal project. Underground, the 2,190-meter-long Yellow Crane Tower Tunnel was officially opened to traffic. This is the largest single-tube double-decker urban road tunnel in China.

On the ground above the head of the tunnel, the ground section of the southern extension of Heping Avenue (Zhongshan Road-Zhangzhidong Road) was opened to traffic simultaneously.

From the point of view of the traffic structure, this creates a smooth urban artery for the old town. The mountains in the city are nature's most beautiful gift. From the perspective of ecological space, this tunnel retains and continues the ecological green axis of Snake Mountain, which runs through Wuchang, and a 13-kilometer-long tree-lined green corridor is simultaneously built along the road, forming an "ecological green corridor through the city and through the mountains".

Not only that, Wuchang District strictly follows the "Wuhan Waterfront Mountain Area Planning and Management Regulations" to protect 8 mountains in the district, and build a mountain green vein barrier, so that residents can see the mountains and see the green.

Green represents ecology and heralds hope. With 191 ancient and famous trees, Wuchang District has become the urban area with the largest number of ancient and famous trees and subsequent resources of ancient trees in the central urban area, and the protection rate of ancient and famous trees has reached 100%. More people are spontaneously participating in the protection of ancient and famous trees.

After green, there is poetry and singing. "The jade flute is played in the Yellow Crane Tower, and the plum blossoms fall in May in Jiangcheng", "wax plum blossoms in winter, pomegranate flowers in summer", poems and poems, people and greenery, Wuchang District takes the cultural context as the main axis, and under the beautiful Yellow Crane Tower, the "Hanyangmen Garden" sung by the old Wuchang people has become a pleasant green ecological landmark.

On the premise of protecting mountains and lakes, how to further optimize the road network and meet the people's willingness to travel is a test of the ability and wisdom of city managers. In recent years, Wuchang has made great efforts in the construction of new infrastructure, continuously improved the road system, increased the construction of Chuijiang Road, Dahu Road and Jiatou Road, built 98 microcirculation roads such as Weiwu Road, Wuche Middle Road, and Xingguo Road, and opened up 20 broken roads such as Zhongnan Third Road, Xingguo North Road, and Ziyang East Road Extension.

The road is opened, which not only greatly alleviates traffic congestion and improves traffic convenience, but also opens up urban air ducts for the ancient city of Wuchang from an ecological point of view, allowing the old city to have more "air outlets". Especially in the summer, the air can pass through the city more smoothly, effectively helping to lower the temperature in the old city and effectively improving the air quality in Wuchang.

What's more, residents are able to stand in the street forest and enjoy the "forest breath" in comfort.

"Water breathing" in the city

In Wuchang, there is a special vast "forest" that grows in the rippling blue waters of the Waisha Lake.

In 2020, Waisha Lake started a battle for water quality restoration. An "underwater forest" began to be planted at the bottom of the lake, and aquatic plants were used to further purify the water body.

Today, 1.75 million square meters of various aquatic plants grow well. The coverage of aquatic vegetation in the water area has increased from 1.2% before treatment to more than 60%. According to statistics, the planting area of aquatic weeds in the waters of the whole region has reached more than 20,000 acres.

Wuchang District has 2 rivers, 4 ports and 8 lakes (including East Lake), with 16.678 kilometers of Yangtze River shoreline, accounting for 43.7% of the water area. Water is the natural high-quality ecological endowment of Wuchang District.

The stubborn problem of lake water quality management is "stagnant water". No matter how good the water quality is, if the fluidity of the closed water becomes poor, the water body will be "immobile" for a long time, and it is easy to have "stagnant water" and smelly water.

Waisha Lake is a lake with the function of regulating and storing water, and whenever it rains, the first rain will enter the lake through the outlet.

Flowing water is not corrupt, which is the core wisdom of water control in Wuchang District. After repeated trials and continuous optimization, Wuchang District has found a "soil method": build an overflow dam at the end of the rainwater outlet; when the rainwater exceeds the dam body, the water circulation pump will pump the "dirty water" to the wet area of the lake and use the water plants for purification; the ecological fence separates the rainwater entering the lake from the net water in the lake into two channels; after the "dirty water" is pumped and discharged, the clean lake water is automatically filled, forming a benign water cycle, increasing the fluidity of the water body, and reducing or even avoiding water pollution.

Figuratively speaking, the "dirty water" is sent into the wetland, the clean water is automatically filled, and the water body is like a smart "Taiji fish" to form self-purification.

This "local method" was granted a new model patent in April this year. After adopting this method of "ecological water replenishment + internal water circulation" to make the water body flow, the water quality of Waisha Lake increased from Class IV to Class III under the condition of drought last year and the water level dropped by 0.5 meters, and there was no trace of cyanobacteria at the outlet.

Protect the clear water of a city and cultivate ecological well-being. In the past five years, Wuchang District has deeply practiced Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, and took the lead in implementing the "river and lake chief system" in the city, and has invested 2.755 billion yuan to improve the municipal pipe network, improve the water quality of rivers and lakes, treat black and odorous water bodies and improve the shoreline of the Yangtze River, and the quality of the water environment has improved year by year.

Comprehensively promote the rectification of potential safety hazards in drinking water sources. Taking the opportunity to promote the rectification of the feedback problems of the central ecological and environmental protection inspectors, we organized and supervised the closure and demolition of 24 wharves and sand yards in the first-class protection zone of drinking water sources such as Yujiatou Water Plant and Pinghumen Water Plant, and all 10 operating wharves in the second-level protection zone were moved out or shut down.

The ecological corridor was created with high standards, the upgrading of the river beach was promoted, and the comprehensive renovation of the river beach phase 5, Huanghuaji and Bapu Street was successively implemented, and the river beach shoreline was restored to 280,000 square meters.

In accordance with the requirements of "investigation, measurement, traceability and treatment", organize the formulation and implementation of the "one mouth, one policy" remediation plan, and fully complete the traceability and remediation of all inlet outlets in the Wuchang section of the Yangtze River.

Wuchang District has implemented source control and sewage interception along the whole line of rivers, lakes and canals, and has successively carried out comprehensive interception and plugging of 53 gates and outlets along Shahu Port, Luojiagang, Dongjia Nullah and Chu River. We continued to carry out dredging and pollution reduction of pipe culverts, dredging about 6,000 kilometers of pipe networks and removing about 50,000 cubic meters of silt, greatly reducing the impact of silt on the water quality of rivers and lakes. The water quality of the lake has been finely improved, and the sediment of the lake has been desilted and reduced, with a total of 38,000 cubic meters of sludge reduced. At the same time, restoration measures such as multi-point water replenishment, nano aeration, replanting aquatic plants and sediment solidification should be taken according to local conditions to enhance the self-purification ability of water bodies.

In the second and third quarters of this year, Wuchang District ranked first in the city's water environment quality assessment ranking. Since the beginning of this year, the water quality of the Wuchang section of the Yangtze River has remained above Class II.

At present, the six lakes in Wuchang District have completed ecological treatment, and the water quality is stable above Class III., and the water quality has fully reached the standard, all of which have reached an excellent level. The comprehensive treatment of four lakes, Ziyang Lake, Neisha Lake, Waisha Lake and Sunshine Lake, was selected as an excellent case of "Beautiful Rivers and Lakes" in Wuhan, and the number and proportion of selected lakes ranked among the top in the city. Wuchang has become the urban area with the most "beautiful rivers and lakes".

These "beautiful rivers and lakes" once again confirm that the water body of Wuchang has a free "water breathing".

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"Carbon breathing" in cities

Wuchang District is surrounded by mountains and rivers, riverside and lakeside, with a green coverage rate of more than 40%, and an excellent air quality rate of about 80% all year round, with a unique natural environment.

As an old city, air quality and air pollution prevention and control have always been a tough nut to crack. How did Wuchang District do this?

The answer lies in Wuchang District's innovation of the working mechanism of joint prevention and control of air pollution, the organization and formulation of "one street, one policy" and "one enterprise, one policy" for air pollution prevention and control, and the responsibility for air pollution prevention and control. Through supervision and interviews, joint law enforcement, daily inspections, problem assignments, etc., organize and implement five major battles for the elimination of heavily polluted weather, ozone pollution prevention and control, nitrogen oxide pollution control, air pollution remediation, and optimization and adjustment of the energy industry structure, and carry out joint law enforcement actions at least twice a week at night.

In 2022, Wuchang District will fully exceed the goals and tasks of improving air quality issued by the superiors, and the average annual concentration of air pollutants will all decrease year-on-year, fully reaching the national second-level standard, and the number of days with good air quality will reach 290 days, with the proportion of good days reaching 81.2%, an increase of 4.9% year-on-year, reaching the best level in recent years. The PM10 concentration was at the lowest level among the national and provincial measurement points in the city, and the O3 concentration was the only station that decreased among the national and provincial measurement points in the city. Blue skies and white clouds became the norm.

In the first three quarters of this year, the concentrations of PM10, PM2.5 and NO2 at the Wuchang Ziyang State Control Point in the center of the city reached the annual target.

Green is the future of industrial transformation. In recent years, Wuchang District has focused on the development of the "green" economy and created a new business card of "turning green into gold".

On the side of the beautiful Snake Mountain, there is a small and chic little Turtle Mountain. It used to be an industrial plant. To this day, large gantry cranes, machinery, and other industrial relics are still preserved.

Infused with innovative concepts and aesthetic design, this industrial heritage site has undergone "urban renewal" and has been transformed into the Xiaoguishan Financial and Cultural Park. The beautiful, chic and quiet environment has attracted a number of financial institutions and carbon financial institutions to settle in.

The financial services industry has always been a pillar industry in Wuchang District. Wuchang District is the first in the country to propose the construction of a carbon finance cluster, and won the first batch of climate investment and financing pilots in the country. Carbon finance has become a beautiful business card of Wuchang District.

Wuchang District innovatively proposes and solidly promotes the "four major actions" of carbon finance, builds a solid ideological foundation of "double carbon" with "carbon consensus", mobilizes "double carbon" resources with "carbon debriefing", gathers "double carbon" head enterprises with "carbon investment", activates the vitality of "double carbon" industry with "carbon innovation", promotes Wuchang District from "pilot" to "demonstration site", and contributes Wuchang District plan and Wuchang wisdom to national climate investment and financing.

Wuchang District invested in the construction of the country's first carbon finance innovation building, the China Carbon Deng Building, which was opened in October 2022. In the building, five special areas are planned, including carbon trading services, carbon asset management, carbon financial innovation, carbon technology transformation, and carbon inclusive application, and 37 enterprises such as China Carbon Deng and China Carbon Technology have been introduced.

Enterprises in the building can complement each other's advantages and share resources, "a building is the industrial chain, and the upper and lower floors are the upstream and downstream", and a carbon market service industry chain is thus spontaneously formed.

By making every effort to expand carbon industry clusters, we will create an agglomeration effect. Nearly 200 carbon-related service enterprises have settled in Wuchang District, initially forming a complete industrial chain of carbon trading settlement and carbon asset management services.

To build a comprehensive climate investment and financing service platform, with provincial and municipal joint matching funds and relying on the resources of provincial and municipal green service platforms, build a comprehensive climate investment and financing service platform based on carbon accounts, with climate investment and financing enterprise libraries and project libraries as the core, and investment and financing services as the main functions, so as to widely serve provincial and municipal climate investment and financing institutions, and guide and promote more high-quality funds to flow into green and low-carbon technologies and climate change response fields.

On November 17, 2023, the "Carbon Finance Empowering Industry Development and Climate Investment and Financing Forum" of the 13th China Innovation Conference was officially launched.

Through intelligent algorithms and big data analysis, the platform helps financing entities to access green finance, climate investment and financing, and carbon finance-related products and services with one click, assists financial institutions to carry out innovation of climate finance products and services based on carbon accounts, and organizes service institutions to provide users with third-party docking services such as ESG, carbon neutrality planning, carbon asset development, carbon evaluation, and carbon certification.

At present, the platform intends to settle in 13 financial institutions and 107 warehousing projects, with a total investment of 67 billion yuan. Among them, 34.5 billion yuan of mitigation projects and 32.5 billion yuan of adaptation projects were implemented.

"Carbon" is a new path of financial support and a demonstration site for green finance. Actively follow up the preparation for the establishment of Wuhan Carbon Clearing House, make every effort to consolidate the basic support for the development of the carbon market, guide the innovation and development of financial institutions in the jurisdiction, carbon funds, carbon custody and carbon pledge financing and other green products, and successfully land a number of carbon finance products.

Taking advantage of the resource advantages of financial institutions in the jurisdiction, we have actively played the role of carbon emission reduction support tools, innovated and developed green products such as carbon funds, carbon trusteeship and carbon pledge financing, and successfully implemented a number of carbon finance projects such as energy infrastructure REITs. Among them, Hubei Bank landed the first carbon emission reduction loan of 32 million yuan from a local corporate bank, which was used to support the construction of the agriculture-photovoltaic complementary photovoltaic power generation project in Fangyi Town, Dawu County. The Wuhan branch of Minsheng Bank successfully landed the first mortgage loan for emission rights, financing 25 million yuan for a private chemical enterprise in Hubei Province.

Promote the implementation of the "Hubei Provincial Carbon Emission Rights Pledge Loan Operational Guidelines (Provisional)", carry out carbon finance innovation based on pre-allocated quotas, and implement the first 3 million yuan cross-compliance carbon emission rights pledge loan under the new policy. Hubei Branch carried out innovative financing of clean energy asset REITs, and successfully implemented the first 1.92 billion yuan green carbon neutrality asset-backed special plan.

Under the national decision of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, we need to continue to explore new "dual carbon" paths, build a more complete climate investment and financing service system, and seek better "dual carbon" results.

At the beginning of this year, there was a case of "substitution with trees" in Wuchang District. During an on-site inspection, environmental inspectors in Wuchang District found that a survey drilling rig being used by a construction engineering company had not been installed with pollution prevention and control devices in accordance with regulations. According to the expert appraisal and assessment, the company's illegal operation caused excessive emissions of air pollutants such as soot particulate matter and hydrocarbons, and it should bear the obligation to compensate for ecological and environmental damage. After calculation, the recommended compensation amount is 5,000 yuan. According to the relevant ecological and environmental damage system and implementation plan, the company subscribes for carbon sink forests and carbon neutral forests with a value of not less than 5,000 yuan to implement alternative restoration.

Subsequently, after investigation and research, the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment decided to promote this practice in the whole city, and set up the "Wuhan Ecological Environment Damage Compensation and Restoration Demonstration Base" (the first batch) to coordinate and guide the compensation obligors to carry out ecological restoration, and form a three-dimensional ecological environment protection network integrating prevention, punishment, restoration, education and publicity.

In the field of carbon finance justice, the Wuchang District People's Procuratorate has innovatively piloted "carbon compensation" to carry out alternative restoration of compensation for ecological and environmental damage.

Participated in the establishment of the 1.5 billion yuan Wuhan Carbon Peak Fund, collected a number of key projects of "double carbon", with a total investment of 45.932 billion yuan, and empowered key projects in the field of "double carbon".

Actively explore the carbon inclusive mechanism, promote the construction of the first carbon inclusive platform in central China, "Wu Carbon Jianghu", and actively cultivate green and low-carbon production and lifestyle.

Carbon inclusion has become another "carbon people's livelihood" project in Wuhan City and Wuchang District, and the majority of residents enjoy the "carbon inclusive rights".

Adhere to innovation-driven and create a highland for green development. Wuchang District is turning "carbon in the air" into a big industry.

In the next step, Wuchang District will continue to seek a new track of "carbon" transformation and development, be a good national pilot pioneer, actively explore Wuchang's experience for the green transformation of industries, accelerate the transformation of kinetic energy, and seek high-level economic progress, contribute to the national strategic goal of responding to climate change, and promote green, low-carbon and high-quality economic and social development.