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Ecological protection is also rich pocket (People's Review)

——New opportunities for development in the overall revitalization of rural areas ②

Wang Shuai
March 21, 2024 06:09 | Source: People's Daily
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The key lies in people and thinking

 

What kind of "chemical reaction" will happen when "promoting carbon peak and carbon neutrality" meets "promoting the overall revitalization of rural areas"?

Jiuhua Village, Xingdian Street, Pukou District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, aims to build a zero carbon village, promotes the application of green energy such as solar energy, drives energy conservation and emission reduction, and focuses on increasing green area and carbon emission absorption. To build a zero carbon village step by step not only improves the "beauty" of the village, but also brings "value added" - the "green electricity" flow of photovoltaic panels installed on the roof, so that villagers can enjoy the benefits, tea planting is booming, and paragliding outdoor flight camps drive the development of rural tourism. The exploration and practice of Jiuhua Village give people enlightenment.

The beautiful and pleasant environment is the rural landscape in the memory of Chinese people, and also the pursuit of farmers. To implement the rural revitalization strategy, an important task is to promote green development and lifestyle. Yucun Village, Tianhuangping Town, Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, from "selling stones" to "selling landscapes" to "earning carbon sinks", has embarked on a new path of ecological beauty, industrial prosperity and people's prosperity. Sunjiagang Village, Qixingtai Town, Zhijiang City, Hubei Province, has built an ecological park through sewage treatment and sludge removal. The "Longxu Valley" has become a landscape, and the villagers' "tourism food" has become more and more popular. Gusheng Village, Wanqiao Town, Dali City, Yunnan Province, has gone from fish culture in the lake to returning to the pond and farmland. With the clearing of Erhai Lake, tourists have increased and villagers' income has continued to grow. The "beautiful butterfly changes" in villages have made more and more people realize that a good ecological environment is the greatest advantage and valuable wealth in rural areas, and ecological protection and economic development can be taken into account to achieve win-win results.

For rural areas, the development mode of destroying ecology and polluting the environment cannot go far, but it will not work if ecological advantages are not used scientifically and "living a poor life with green water and green mountains". In 2015, commercial logging of natural forests was completely stopped in the Greater Xing'an Mountains forest region of Inner Mongolia. Zhou Yizhe and his colleagues, who had been forestry workers for decades, changed their jobs from "tree fellers" to "tree watchers". By developing forest tourism and undergrowth economy, and focusing on the word "forest", Zhou Yizhe lived a life of "getting rich without cutting down trees". In this sense, let the ecological advantages continue to transform into development advantages, let more people taste the "sweet" brought by the improvement of the ecological environment, stimulate the endogenous power to protect the environment, love green and protect green, so as to better realize the virtuous circle of protection and development.

This year, the No. 1 Document of the Central Committee proposed to adhere to "green agriculture". The key to giving full play to the economic and social benefits of green water and green mountains is to establish the correct development ideas and select the development industries according to local conditions. Yang Changqin, a villager in the Ethnic Village of Datong Town, Chishui City, Guizhou Province, is the inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage "Chishui Bamboo Weaving". Relying on the rich local bamboo resources, she established a training base in the Ethnic Village to lead the surrounding villagers to develop the bamboo weaving industry. From dustpans for labor, steamers for cooking, and bamboo beds for sleeping, the ingenious combination of traditional bamboo weaving techniques and modern fashion elements has enabled the bamboo weaving industry to develop vigorously and directly led to the income increase of more than 500 people in the Ethnic Village. This also shows from one aspect that the key is people, and the key is thinking. Find an effective way to realize the transformation of ecological value, and use natural advantages to develop characteristic industries. Ecological "high beauty" will be better transformed into economic "high-yield value", and "green content" will be further transformed into "gold content".

The beautiful natural environment itself is a high-quality resource for the overall revitalization of the countryside. General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "If all other conditions are available, who is not willing to invest, develop, work, live and travel in green places?" Hold the red line of ecological protection, promote the acceleration of the appreciation of rural natural capital, and make good ecology the supporting point for the overall revitalization of the countryside. The vast countryside will continue to develop ecological beauty, industrial prosperity A new picture of people's wealth.

People's Daily (March 21, 2024, 5th Edition)

(Editor in charge: Bai Yu, Qu Yuan)

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