The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation. At the same time, the Yellow River basin is also an area with fragile ecological environment. Over the years, many provinces in the Yellow River basin have been exploring new governance models, promoting ecological recovery in the Yellow River basin, and jointly protecting our mother river.

Recently, Shandong Province and Henan Province signed a horizontal ecological protection compensation agreement for the Yellow River basin (Henan Shandong section). The agreement is of exemplary significance for the whole Yellow River basin to improve the horizontal ecological compensation mechanism of "shared responsibility for protection, shared governance of the basin environment, and shared ecological benefits", and to explore the value measurement of ecological products.

In addition, the Yellow River has less water and more sediment, which is the crux of its complexity and intractability. Qingyang, Gansu Province has set up a test field with a total area of 4.8 square kilometers, exploring and creating a unique governance model. After years of treatment, the coverage rate of forest and grass here has reached 84%, and the benefit of mud blocking has reached 97%, effectively controlling the water and soil loss in the region.

In recent years, large-scale water conservancy projects such as Longyang Gorge and Xiaolangdi have played a full role, and the shrinking trend of river channels has been initially curbed. The sediment concentration of the Yellow River has dropped by more than 80% in the past 20 years. The comprehensive prevention and control of soil erosion in the Yellow River basin has achieved remarkable results, and the ecological environment has improved significantly. The downstream estuarine wetland area has increased year by year, and the biodiversity has increased significantly.