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Xinhua News Agency, Hefei, June 1st Title: "Green" drives "Rich" — — Observation on "Two Mountains" Practice and Innovation Base in Dabie Mountain Area
Xinhua News Agency reporters Yang Yuhua, Shui Jinchen and Wu Huijun.
Green organic certification has doubled the value of mountain products here; Natural oxygen bar and rich biodiversity resources make it a tourist resort with endless tourists. The source is good water and forest carbon sink, so that the "green value" here continues to expand … …
On the eve of World Environment Day, the reporter walked into the Dabie Mountain area, which was once a concentrated contiguous destitute area in China. After poverty alleviation, the good ecological environment of green mountains and green waters is becoming the "biggest capital" for promoting rural revitalization and green development here. The "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" practice and innovation base in Dabie Mountain area is embarking on a new path of green ecological revitalization by deeply practicing the "two mountains theory", building an eco-industrial system and exploring ways to realize the value of eco-products.
Keeping "Green" for "Gold": Ecological value gradually shows economic value.
The average altitude is 1000 meters, and the content of negative oxygen ions can reach up to 20 thousand per cubic centimeter. In early summer, in Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve, Yuexi County, deep in Dabie Mountain, there are bamboo trees and green hills. The vegetation coverage rate here exceeds 95%, and almost all biological populations and vegetation types in Dabie Mountain can be found in the reserve, which is known as "plant gene bank" and "endangered animal and plant refuge".
Shifo Village, Yuexi County, in the reserve was once a poor village where "radish and sweet potato were used as dry food and women did not marry Shifolang", but now it has not only achieved "green poverty alleviation", but also become a well-known "beautiful tea village".
In the past tea-picking season, 3,300 mu of green tea in the village’s organic tea garden was snapped up, and the highest fresh leaves were sold to 500 yuan, which was two or three times the price of ordinary fresh leaves.
"Tea industry is our village’s poverty alleviation industry, and it is also our prosperity ‘ Jinye ’ 。” Wang Jun, secretary of the Party branch of Shifo Village and director of the village committee, said.
Thanks to the unique ecological environment of the reserve, the tea in Shifo Village has been certified as green, organic and geographical indications. In 2021 alone, the average income of tea in Shifo Village exceeded 30,000 yuan, and the collective economic income of the village was nearly 500,000 yuan.
The village also attracts tens of thousands of tourists every year through the development of tea tourism integration. Beautiful scenery and ecological value have become a "beautiful economy" for villagers to increase their income.
From digging "gold" in the soil to keeping "green" for "gold", Shifo Village is the epitome of the green development of the "two mountains" practice and innovation base in Dabie Mountain area.
Due to inconvenient transportation and lagging development, the green mountains and green hills in Dabie Mountain were once regarded as "into the badlands". Thanks to poverty alleviation, the Dabie Mountains have taken on a new look. However, on the road to prosperity, how to jump out of the traditional old road of industrialization, give full play to ecological advantages and make good use of this "maximum capital" has become a necessary question for the current development of this region.
On May 11th, villagers picked tea in the ecological tea garden in Dawan Village, Huashi Township, Jinzhai County, Anhui Province. Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Yu photo
This is the ecological tea garden (photo of drone) in Dawan Village, Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, which was taken on May 11th. Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Yu photo
In recent years, Yuexi County, Huoshan County and Jinzhai County in Dabie Mountain Area of Anhui Province have successively become the "two mountains" practice and innovation bases of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and based on local conditions, they have explored new ways of green development.
This is a photo taken on May 12th at the Dendrobium planting base of Jishi Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Sanhe Village, Zhufo ‘an Town, Huoshan County, Anhui Province. Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Yu photo
Huoshan county is an important producing area of Dendrobium officinale. In Sanhe Village, Zhufo ‘an Town, this county, Liu Bo, a "post-90s" villager, "turned stone into gold" in a pile of stones under a bamboo forest.
These half-man-high stones are covered with round holes, on which a Dendrobium grows like green grass. This is an imitation wild Mihu cultivation base established in Liu Bo. Each stone can cultivate nearly 100 Mihu plants. According to the price of each plant near 200 yuan, the output value of a stone can reach more than 10,000 yuan.
"Chinese herbal medicines such as Dendrobium have high requirements for the growth environment. Thanks to the good mountains and waters of Huoshan, these abandoned rocky forests in the past have now become treasures." Liu Bo said.
This is a photo taken on May 12th at the Dendrobium planting base of Jishi Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Sanhe Village, Zhufo ‘an Town, Huoshan County, Anhui Province. Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Yu photo
Set a "green threshold" for industrial development, inject "green content" into agricultural industry and add "green element" to tourism service industry … … In recent years, Dabie Mountain in Anhui Province has taken the opportunity of "two mountains" practice and innovation to continuously promote ecological resources to become rich capital. In 2021, the output value of green agriculture in Yuexi County alone reached 3.36 billion yuan, and the comprehensive tourism income exceeded 6 billion yuan, up by 4.9% and 25% respectively.
Gold is born from "green": exploring "green system" and expanding ecological value
Dabie Mountain area in western Anhui Province is an important ecological barrier and water conservation area in Anhui Province. It has many large reservoirs such as Meishan and Xianghongdian, and is also the water source of Lu ‘an City and Hefei City in Anhui Province. Every year, only Meishan and Xianghongdian reservoirs will provide no less than 320 million cubic meters of water supply to the downstream cities of Lu ‘an and Hefei.
In order to improve the enthusiasm of protecting and improving water quality in the upper reaches of the river basin, Anhui Province has explored the establishment of an ecological compensation mechanism for water environment in Dabie Mountain area since 2014, and compensated water sources such as Jinzhai and Huoshan in the upper reaches for water conservation. Up to now, only Jinzhai County has accumulated nearly 300 million yuan of water environmental ecological compensation funds in Dabie Mountain area.
Explore the compensation mechanism for the protection of ecological products, strive to build the management and guarantee mechanism for the realization of the value of ecological products, and expand the possibility of the transformation of "two mountains". The "two mountains" practice and innovation base in Dabie Mountain area is still working hard to build a "green system".
Expand the industrial chain and value chain of ecological products, and constantly increase the premium of ecological products.
"Water flowing under bamboo roots" is a water drink and brewing industry that Huoshan County strives to build on the high-quality water source of Foziling Reservoir.
"In recent years, the supply of ecologically good water is in short supply, showing an explosive growth trend." Zhu Songru, director of Huoshan County Ecological Environment Branch, said with emotion that the "glistening water" has continuously turned into "glistening silver", and the output value of the water beverage industry has increased from 3.4 billion yuan in 2018 to 5 billion yuan in 2021.
Activate sleeping ecological resources, innovate "two mountains" and transform financial system guarantee.
Yuexi County explored "green mortgage" in 2021 and issued the first pledge loan of compensation income right of public welfare forest. Through the pledge of compensation income right of public welfare forest, Hu Wangcun of Pingyang Family Farm in Yuexi County obtained a bank loan of 150,000 yuan.
"I didn’t expect that the income right of ecological public welfare forest compensation can also be pledged for financing." Hu Wangcun said with excitement that the green mountains and green hills are the backers for the people in the mountains to get rich.
Nowadays, the "two mountains" practice and innovation base in Dabie Mountain area of Anhui Province is focusing on ecological resources such as mountains, water, forests, fields and lakes, innovating institutional mechanisms, promoting the transformation of ecological resources into assets and capital, broadening the channels for realizing the commercialization and industrialization of ecological resources, and writing more stories about "gold" in "green".
Green revitalization: a new way of eco-economic development
In May this year, Zhang Zeren, a forest ranger who lived in the mountains of Yuexi County for most of his life, received a notice to move away from the mountains. Although he was a little reluctant, he still signed it.
Qingtian Township, Yuexi County, where he lives, is about to open the Dabie Mountain Biodiversity Protection Center, and rely on the center to develop high-end ecological health care industries.
"There is a new way to rely on mountains to eat mountains and ‘ Qian Jing ’ Yes. " Lao Zhang laughed.
This is one of the eco-environment oriented development projects to be implemented in Yuexi County. In addition to biodiversity protection and recreational industry development projects in Dabie Mountain, Yuexi County will explore new ways of integrated development and mutual feedback of ecological environment protection and ecological industry around comprehensive management of water environment and development of ecological tea industry, comprehensive management of water environment and development of fine rural leisure tourism in the future.
The ecological environment is also a kind of productivity, and the ecological industry is also regarded as the "fourth industry". For the practice and innovation base of "two mountains" in Dabie Mountain, the practice and innovation of "two mountains" is ultimately to explore a new way of ecological economic development and realize the growth of green ecological value.
“‘ Two mountains ’ There is no ready-made road to practical innovation, which is a fundamental change in the way of development. " He Bin, the county magistrate of Yuexi County, believes that this means profound changes in development factors and assessment system.
At the end of 2021, Yuexi County completed the accounting of Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) in Anhui earlier, and found out the ecological family background and value of the county, which provided a foundation for further tapping the market value of ecological products and promoting the capitalization of ecological resources.
Since this year, Huoshan, Jinzhai and other places have also completed GEP accounting. In Huoshan county’s list of key tasks for deepening reform in 2022, it is also planned to establish a GEP and GDP double accounting assessment model for villages and towns. This also means that the development orientation has changed from pursuing industrial added value to paying attention to both industrial added value and ecological added value.
On this basis, the "two mountains" practice and innovation base in Dabie Mountain area has also actively built an ecological resource operation and management platform, taking ecological resources such as clear water, forests and negative oxygen ions as the core elements of production, operating ecological resource transformation projects, accelerating the market-oriented transactions of forest rights, water rights, emission rights and energy use rights, actively looking for carbon sink trading opportunities, and broadening the ways to realize the value of ecological products.