Protect and restore the excellent environment, picturesque Lijiang River scenery is new.
The 10 kV cross-river power grid lines from Di Yang to Xingping, the core scenic spot of Lijiang River, have all been demolished, and the green power facilities and landscape resources of Lijiang River have been integrated and developed. Reporter Liu Jiaoqing photo
□ Our reporter Liu Qian
On October 15th, 2023, the Department of Ecological Environment of the Autonomous Region and the Guilin Municipal People’s Government held a press conference on the ecological environment quality report of the Lijiang River, and released the 2022 Lijiang Ecological Environment Quality Report (hereinafter referred to as the Report) for the first time. The Report comprehensively summarizes the experience and practices of Lijiang River protection, scientifically evaluates the good situation of Lijiang River protection, and looks forward to the bright future of protecting Lijiang River. Guilin, as a prefecture-level city, issued a report on the quality of ecological environment, which is the first in China, marking a new stage of protecting the Lijiang River and Guilin’s landscape, and is a milestone in the historical process of Lijiang River protection.
A river with clear water and green hills on both sides. Between mountains and rivers, it is related to "the country’s greatest." Lijiang River is the source of life for Guilin’s survival and development, and it is also the best witness of urban ecological protection and green development.
Since 2021, Guilin has kept in mind the entrustment, deeply practiced the concept of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", insisted on protecting the Lijiang River and Guilin’s landscape as its political responsibility and bottom line requirements, managed the ecological environment with the strictest rule of law, continuously and accurately "controlled chaos", systematically and accurately "controlled water", deepened the precision "controlled scenery", protected the authenticity and integrity of the Lijiang River, and closely followed the beautiful scenery, green development, harmonious coexistence and harmony. As the only typical river management model in China, the Lijiang River Basin was praised by the Inspector General of the State Council.
New achievements have been made in ecological environment protection of Lijiang River.
Over the past two years, Guilin has made great efforts to cultivate the advantages of ecological environment, do a good job in the ecological environment protection of the Lijiang River basin, and strive to build the Lijiang River into a model of comprehensive river management in China and a world-class model of ecological environment protection, and build a modern and beautiful Guilin with Chinese style in which man and nature coexist harmoniously, so that nature can give the Chinese nation this magical and beautiful treasure to be preserved forever.
Since 2017, the national surface water assessment section of Lijiang River Basin has maintained Class II or above water quality for six consecutive years, and the water quality is excellent, with an excellent ratio of 100%. The water environmental quality of surface water assessment section in Guilin has been ranked in the forefront of the country for many years. Focusing on improving and improving the quality of water environment, Guilin strengthens source control and land and water planning, scientifically manages the surface water environment in different regions and stages, and systematically promotes water pollution prevention and control. Strengthen the source control, implement the project of "improving the quality and carrying forward" the surface water quality, and investigate the sewage outlets entering the river in the urban built-up areas. Implement urban and rural governance, complete centralized sewage treatment in the urban section of Lijiang River, transform the municipal pipe network in the old residential areas in the urban section of Lijiang River, continuously promote the comprehensive treatment of 10 tributaries in the urban section of Lijiang River, and basically realize the full coverage, collection and treatment of sewage pipe networks in urban villages, old residential areas and urban-rural junctions. The urban sewage collection rate is over 80%, the centralized treatment rate is over 99%, and the proportion of black and odorous water bodies is 100%.
At the same time, Guilin insists on coordinated gas management, and the ambient air quality continues to improve. Promote the prevention and control of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) pollution in key industries, and 115 VOCs-related emission enterprises have completed the installation of pollution control facilities. Implement the "Skynet" project of motor vehicle exhaust, and become the only city in the whole region to realize the coverage of remote sensing monitoring points in all counties (cities, districts); Take the lead in the implementation of scoring system management for motor vehicle emission inspection institutions in the whole region. We will promote the efficiency and quality improvement of the brick-making industry, strengthen the supervision of brick factory enterprises, carry out the rectification of waste gas emission standards, supervise and monitor the stable discharge of major pollutants in brick factories, and push the illegal information of enterprises to law enforcement departments. We will spare no effort to protect the pure land and keep the quality of soil environment stable. Strictly control the risk of soil pollution in construction land, carry out on-site inspection on the safe use of construction land, and the safe use rate of key construction land is 100%.
After unremitting protection and restoration, today, the Lijiang River Basin has complete ecosystem types, diverse community structures, rich biological resources and many endemic species. There are about 3,100 known vascular plants and more than 600 terrestrial vertebrate wild animals. In 2022, a new species, Rana guibeiensis, was discovered in Maoershan Nature Reserve. The Lijiang River Basin has established 1 national nature reserve, 5 autonomous region-level nature reserves, 2 scenic spots, 3 forest parks, 1 wetland park, 2 geological parks, 1 world natural heritage site, 2 aquatic germplasm conservation zone, and 2 national monitoring stations for terrestrial wildlife epidemics.
Accurately "control chaos" and jointly enforce the law to "escort" green mountains and green hills.
In the early morning of March 25th, 2023, it rained heavily. The law enforcement patrol boats of the Comprehensive Law Enforcement Detachment of Lijiang Scenic Area slowly sailed out of the dock, and at the same time, the patrol boats of maritime affairs, fishery administration and public security also quietly sailed out of their respective docks. The purpose of this joint law enforcement is that law enforcement departments receive reports from the masses and conduct inspections and strikes against the behavior of electric fish in Lijiang River.
The ecological management of Lijiang River is a complex and grand project, which needs to be solidly promoted with systematic thinking and long-term vision, and needs the full cooperation of management departments. In March 2023, under the leadership of Lijiang Scenic Area Management Committee, Guilin established a joint law enforcement team composed of Lijiang Scenic Area Management Committee, public security, maritime affairs, fishery administration and tourism supervision departments, which constituted a new working pattern of "sharing resources, complementing each other’s advantages, promoting each other and protecting Lijiang".
Law enforcement departments have established mechanisms such as joint meeting system, joint law enforcement system, special meeting system and information sharing system to carry out joint cruise activities. In addition, it also cooperated with the local governments to standardize and enforce the law on the destruction of the ecological environment on the beaches of coastal islands, issued a notice prohibiting barbecues, picnics and littering, comprehensively cleaned up the hygiene of the river beaches, and standardized the order of tourists’ sightseeing and vehicle parking.
In addition to gathering the joint efforts of the law enforcement departments of Lijiang River, we also set up a four-level Lijiang River grid management mechanism of "city, county (district), township (town) and village (neighborhood) committees" to unite the village committees along the Lijiang River, mobilize the masses to report and supervise, and set up joint law enforcement stations in front to deal with problems in time, so as to play its role of "clairvoyance" and "clairvoyance". "Like this electric fish behavior, the masses first discovered it and then reported it to 110, and multiple departments conducted joint investigations." Liu Xiaohong, instructor of the Fifth Brigade of the Comprehensive Law Enforcement Detachment of Lijiang Scenic Area, said.
Idle and scattered "Gui Gui Yu" ships are a historical problem on the Lijiang River, and also a key and difficult point in the regulation of the Lijiang River. The Party Working Committee and Management Committee of Lijiang Scenic Area thoroughly practiced the concept of "two mountains", taking Yangshuo County as the entrance, and adopted fishing boat acquisition and one-time subsidy to clean up and dismantle fishing boats. In 2022, the comprehensive law enforcement detachment of Lijiang Scenic Area cooperated with Yangshuo County to carry out a special campaign to clean up and rectify the "Gui Gui Yu" ships in the main stream of Lijiang River, and dismantled 155 "Gui Gui Yu" ships according to law, which improved the scenery along the Lijiang River.
In recent years, with the promotion of special rectification work, the beautiful scenery of "green mountains, green waters and egrets" has reappeared one by one.
"The ecological environment is good, and there are more and more egrets." The hearts of law enforcement players are full of sense of accomplishment. With the in-depth development of the series of special actions of "controlling chaos, water and scenery", the "Lijiang Ecological Defence War" has been reported frequently, and egrets have become frequent visitors to the Lijiang River. The comprehensive law enforcement detachment of Lijiang Scenic Area has become the "Guardian of Lijiang River" guarding the clear water and green mountains, and has successively won the titles of "Civil Servant Collective Satisfied by the People", "National Advanced Collective of Administrative Law Enforcement" and "National Women’s Civilized Post".
Persist in protecting the ecological authenticity of Lijiang River landscape
Maoershan, which stretches across the northern part of Guangxi, is known as "the crown of five mountains and the top of South China". It is here that the world-famous beautiful Lijiang River was born.
Guarding this green mountain is the police of Maoershan Police Station of Ecological Environment Protection Branch of Guilin Public Security Bureau. They are the "mountain guards" in the new era here.
Established in 1981, the Maoershan police station has become the guardian of the source area of Lijiang River. "In the past, the villagers’ awareness of environmental protection was not enough. They all relied on mountains to eat mountains, and poaching occurred from time to time. The law popularization work for fellow villagers is something we have to do every year. Now the ecological environment of Maoershan is getting better and better. More and more tourists come to Maoershan, which has promoted the development of the local economy. The villagers have seen it and consciously become the staunchest supporters of protecting the ecological environment of Maoershan. " Zheng Yongming, director of the Maoershan police station, said.
"With the implementation of the ecological restoration project, the environment in our village has been greatly improved, and there are more tourists. Everyone is more confident to increase income and get rich by developing rural tourism!" The ecological restoration of Lijiang River has been unanimously praised by the villagers in Xingping Fishing Village, Yangshuo County.
Accelerating the implementation of ecological restoration and upgrading project is to maintain the authenticity and integrity of Lijiang River ecology to the maximum extent. The third phase of Guilin karst ecological restoration project was fully completed, with 8 ecological restoration sites covering an area of 57,000 square meters. After the restoration of the third phase of the project, the ecological restoration of the Lijiang River has achieved remarkable results. The ecological landscape environment and rural living environment of Xingping fishing village in Yangshuo have been greatly improved, and the occupancy rate of villagers’ homestays and the number of tourists received by farmhouses have increased significantly.
There are 97 households with 384 residents (villagers) in the island of Leech Island and the big and small continents on the Lijiang River. For a long time, the island’s garbage facilities are not complete, the living environment is poor and the ecosystem is very fragile.
In order to make the environment of Duanzhou Island in the urban area of Lijiang River cleaner and more beautiful, and further maintain the authenticity and integrity of the landscape ecology, from November 2021 to June 2022, our city invested 30 million yuan to implement the first-phase ecological restoration project of Leech Island and Daxiaozhou Island, completed the sewage interception project, completely solved the problem of sewage discharging directly into Lijiang River, and ecologically restored 52,000 square meters of green plants, which greatly improved the living environment of ordinary people.
In 2023, the second phase ecological relocation project of Lijiang Island continued to advance in an orderly manner. Our city has set up the joint headquarters of the ecological relocation project in Leech Island, established the weekly regular meeting system, raised hundreds of millions of yuan, and carried out ecological relocation for 97 households (villagers) in Leech Island and various continents. In the next step, we will further speed up the work related to ecological restoration in various continents.
Whether it is the persistent figures of Maoershan, the optimization of the living environment of the villagers in Yangshuo fishing village, or the gratifying change of the greening of Lijiang Island, it is a vivid microcosm of the ecological protection and restoration of Lijiang River Basin in Guilin.
Guilin has continuously strengthened planning guidance, systematic management, strict control and scientific utilization, maintained the authenticity and integrity of the landscape ecology of the Lijiang River, intensified ecological restoration and environmental management of the Lijiang River basin, and cared for this treasure land endowed by nature to the Chinese nation.
Since 2023, in order to better enhance the landscape effect and dress up the "beautiful face value" of the Lijiang River, the management committee of Lijiang Scenic Area, power supply and maritime affairs departments have continuously accelerated the rectification of cross-river cables in the core scenic spots of the Lijiang River, and carried out the demolition of cross-river lines through the landscape integration of power facilities in the core basin of the Lijiang River, so that the new mechanism of green power facilities construction and landscape integration development of the Lijiang River will benefit the people along the river. By December 2023, 12 river-crossing cables, including Mingcun in Yanshan District, Laocuntou in Xingping, Dahebei, Ergendi, Lengshui Village, Shangtaoyuan Village to Langzhou Village and Dahebei to Fishing Village in Yangshuo, have been successfully demolished, and all the 10 kV river-crossing power grid lines in Di Yang-Xingping section of Lijiang River core scenic spot have been demolished. At present, 24 power grid projects have been planned to support the grid structure after the demolition of the river-crossing lines, and the work of replacing electric energy for Lijiang tourism has been promoted in an orderly manner, so that tourists and people along the Lijiang River can enjoy green travel, green tourism and green life.
"Mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand" to build a solid ecological foundation
2022年6月7日，财政部会同自然资源部、生态环境部公示全国第二批山水林田湖草沙一体化保护和修复工程竞争性选拔项目名单，桂林漓江流域山水林田湖草沙一体化保护和修复工程项目以第4名的成绩从全国19个参与竞选省份项目中脱颖而出，成功入选。
实施桂林漓江流域山水林田湖草沙一体化保护和修复工程，是深入贯彻落实习近平生态文明思想、提升漓江流域生态保护修复水平、加快打造桂林世界级旅游城市的具体举措。桂林市3年将获得上级奖补资金31.6亿元。这充分体现了中央和自治区对桂林、对漓江保护修复工作的高度重视。
漓江流域山水林田湖草沙一体化保护修复工程，是广西第一个纳入国家“十四五”期间山水林田湖草沙一体化保护和修复工程项目。该工程以漓江干流及9条支流为脉络，以南岭山、架桥岭等主要山脉为骨架，以猫儿山自然保护区等12个自然保护地为生态关键点，划分漓江上游、中游和下游3个生态保护修复分区，共14个保护修复单元，安排生态保护修复8类修复工程，共83个子项目。工程实施期3年，可以系统提升漓江全流域、全要素的生态环境质量，增加生态产品供给，提高生态产品价值，打造生态文明建设样板。
In 2023, Guangxi hired experts in the fields related to ecological protection and restoration of grass and sand in landscape forest fields and lakes, set up an expert consulting team, and transferred the technical guidance group of the special class for the formation of technical backbones from Guangxi Natural Resources Ecological Restoration Center to carry out ecological adaptability technical guidance for the Lijiang River landscape project sub-project.
At present, Guilin has fully integrated the source and coastal forests of the Lijiang River into the management of ecological public welfare forests, implemented Pearl River Shelterbelt (Pearl River Basin Comprehensive Management Shelterbelt), returned farmland to forests, forest phase transformation, etc., completed afforestation of 1.635 million mu, built a hundred-mile ecological demonstration belt on the east bank of the Lijiang River, implemented the project of "greening, colorization, flowering and fruitization", and completed the upgrading and transformation of a number of tourist terminals.
There are more forests, and wild animals are gradually thriving. Dishui Village, Di Yang Township, located on the east bank of the Lijiang River, has many mountains and few fields, and the ecological environment is good. Wild monkeys often come to the front and back of the village to "feed", and people and animals live in harmony. There have never been any injuries to monkeys or monkeys in the village. Protecting monkeys means protecting the ecology of Lijiang River. This consensus reached by the villagers has been praised by many people.
Today’s Lijiang River, water, stones, grass and trees are natural. Birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, fish are swimming in the shallow bottom, and the beautiful picture of sky blue, green water and clear water has become the normal state of Lijiang River. It can be predicted that the beautiful scenery of the Lijiang River in the future will remain clear and flow forever.
Source: Guilin Daily