The Yellow River, flowing from the snow and ice in bayan har, gathers thousands of streams and rivers, crossing nine provinces and regions to nourish Chinese civilization. Under the guidance of the concept of "jointly protecting and promoting great governance", a new generation of Yellow River "water conservancy people" have made unremitting efforts to restore ecology, improve water quality and use water rationally. A picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature is slowly unfolding along the Yellow River.

　　Water Ecology: Respect for Nature and Harmonious Symbiosis

　　In early autumn, standing in the Star Sea in maduo county, Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, countless lakes are like stars sprinkled into the earth.

　　Early in the morning, Tongde, an ecological manager in Gadan Village, Machali Town, maduo county, took the reporter on the road to patrol the Star Sea. His family lived by grazing for generations and witnessed the change of grassland ecology. More than 20 years ago, due to long-term overgrazing, Maduo became devastated from a land rich in water and grass, and the income of herders decreased.

　　In recent years, maduo county has implemented the policy of "fixing livestock by grass", scientifically and rationally utilized grasslands, and explored the development path of modern ecological grassland animal husbandry. Like many herders, Tongde put down his whip, and now his job is to pick up garbage, patrol lakes and grasslands and protect wild animals.

　　On October 20, 2021, in Lena Village, Zhalinghu Township, maduo county, Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, the ecological manager of the Yellow River Source Park of Sanjiangyuan National Park picked up garbage by Zhalinghu Lake. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Long photo

　　The Yellow River descends from Maduo on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and meets Fenhe on the Loess Plateau.

　　Wanrong section of Fenhe River in Shanxi Province is the last pass where Fenhe River flows into the Yellow River. "People often say that the Yellow River is only 48 poles wide, and both sides can hear it." Pan Xinjie, former director of the office of Wanrong Yellow River Affairs Bureau, said that it is said that Xuanyuan Huangdi once swept the floor on the bank of the Yellow River as an altar to worship the afterlife. Today, the site of the sweeping altar is located in the Houtu Temple. Historically, the Houtu Temple has been destroyed by floods three times and moved twice.

　　This is a photo taken in Wanrong County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province overlooking the Yellow River and Fenhe River. (UAV shooting) (Photo courtesy of the interviewee)

　　Fenhe River is the second largest tributary of the Yellow River, which has an important impact on the ecological security of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. Nowadays, walking in the Wanrong section of Fenhe River, we can see that there are holes in the coastal slopes, and the holes are full of Amorpha fruticosa.

　　"More than 4 million such holes have been pierced on the left bank of the Fenhe River in Wanrong." Xie Xiaobin, a staff member of Wanrong County Water Conservancy Bureau, said that Amorpha fruticosa has the functions of protecting dike sand, preventing wind and fixing sand, and is a "living steel bar" for dam protection. More than 4 million Amorpha fruticosa roots on the shore to build a beautiful ecological barrier for the Wanrong section of Fenhe River.

　　The Yellow River falls to the East China Sea, and Wan Li writes in his mind.

　　From the mouth of the Yellow River in Dongying, Shandong Province, all the way upstream, Liang Jinhui, a researcher of the ecological investigation project team of key rivers and lakes in Shandong Province, and his colleagues sampled along the Yellow River. Water, sediment and epiphytic algae of the Yellow River … … Samples were carefully collected into the container.

　　Liang Jinhui introduced that after the later detection and analysis of the samples, the sampling at 40 points on the bank of the Yellow River will generate a "physical examination report" containing 85 indicators, providing first-hand information for dynamically recording the alternation and evolution of aquatic organisms in the Yellow River.

　　In the game of ecological protection, the ecological environment in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River has its own characteristics, and each can exert its ecological linkage control effect.

　　Water Environment: Long-term System Governance.

　　Shapotou district, zhongwei, Ningxia is the first stop for the Yellow River to enter Ningxia. In Fengzhuang Village, Rouyuan Town, shapotou district, there are many houses, the streets are clean and tidy, and a small river at the entrance of the village flows quietly under the bridge. "This river is the fourth drainage ditch. In the past, garbage and weeds were piled up along the ditch all the year round, and sewage was discharged directly into the ditch, which smelled bad in summer." Mai Xueping, a village cadre in feng village, said.

　　In recent years, Ningxia has strengthened the protection of water ecological environment, and implemented projects such as desilting and dredging of key drainage ditches into the Yellow River and construction of constructed wetlands.

　　The Yellow River, which flows through Qingtongxia City, Ningxia, nourishes rice and various vegetation on the shore (photo of drone, taken on May 25th). Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Kaihua photo

　　In order to ensure that the water quality will not be polluted after the water system is connected, five video monitoring points, five automatic water monitoring points and five water quality monitoring points have been set up in shapotou district, and a special App has been developed to monitor the changes of water quantity and water quality online in real time.

　　Water environment control is not limited to rural non-point source pollution. In recent years, urban pollution control has also achieved remarkable results.

　　In the evening, Nanchuan River in Xining City, Qinghai Province is sparkling under the setting sun. In the urban greenway along the Nanchuan River, Jiang Xiaoyun, the river head of Xinqing Community in Nantan Sub-district Office, Chengzhong District, Xining City, opened the "Smart Water Conservancy Cloud" App and clicked "River Patrol" to start the 1.83km river patrol from Hongshui Bridge to Kunlun Bridge. "Only when I see that there is no garbage on the river and the water conservancy facilities are operating normally will my heart be practical." Jiang Xiaoyu said.

　　On June 3, along the Nanchuan River in Xining City, Jiang Xiaoyun, the community river chief, was patrolling the river. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ning photo

　　The Nanchuan River, now known as the "city living room", was once plagued by water pollution, silt at the bottom of the river and the wild growth of aquatic plants.

　　The problem is in the water, and the root is on the shore. In recent years, Xining City has improved the water quality through measures such as renovation of municipal pipe network along the river, sewage collection and treatment, improvement of river bottom, microbial purification, aquatic plant configuration, etc., and upgraded the coastal ecological environment through measures such as shoreline renovation, facility repair and beautification, and wetland ecological restoration, and the beautiful scenery of harmonious coexistence of people, birds and fish reappeared.

　　In recent years, under the guidance of the major national strategy of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, a series of "combination boxing" have been launched along the Yellow River. The water quality of the Yellow River basin is improving year by year, and the main stream of the Yellow River will reach Grade II water quality for the first time in 2022.

　　Water resources: water saving and water diversion.

　　Autumn is crisp. In the Qianjin Farm of Ningxia Agricultural Reclamation, tens of thousands of acres of farmland are dressed in green, showing a different "face value". After the high standard transformation of farmland and the application of intelligent irrigation technology, more than half of the water can be saved per mu here. On the exclusive trading platform, 6 million cubic meters of water saved by the farm was purchased by two water-deficient enterprises to ensure production.

　　The Yellow River water is like soup and steamed buns to Xia Chuan.

　　Ningxia, which is located in the northwest and is dry and rainy, relies heavily on the Yellow River for its development. In the past, it faced the dilemma of long-term water shortage and flood irrigation.

　　The utilization of water resources in Ningxia is the epitome of the Yellow River Basin, which accounts for 2% of the country’s river runoff and supports the water demand of 12% of the country’s population and 17% of its cultivated land. On the basis of a series of water right and water price reforms in recent years, since 2021, Ningxia has taken the lead in exploring the reform of water right in the provinces along the Yellow River and Nine Provinces.

　　Water use warrants for some villages in Gaozha Town, Litong District, Wuzhong City, Ningxia (photo taken on May 24). Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Kaihua photo

　　"The confirmation of water rights is based on the red line of total amount and efficiency, which forces water users to recognize the upper limit of water use, so that suitable water planting and water production are gradually rooted in the hearts of the people." Bao Lumin, head of the special class of water right reform in Ningxia Water Resources Department, said.

　　Nowadays, water, as an asset, shows great value on the trading platform. Industrial enterprises and water users purchase water rights from the exclusive water market for new projects and expansion of scale.

　　In the past summer, the work of water and sediment regulation in the Yellow River Delta has come to an end, but the story of water, sand and people continues.

　　For the Yellow River Delta, water shortage is a big problem. In the past, the wetland water supply in the Yellow River Delta could only be realized by self-flowing water diversion during the water and sediment regulation period of the Yellow River.

　　"Every year from June 19 to July 10, there is only about 20 days." Liujing, deputy director of the Shandong Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve Management Committee, said, "But according to years of observation, we found that the whole wetland is not the most in need of water at this stage. For example, in the spring when animals and plants grow most vigorously, the demand for water in wetlands is very strong. However, during this period, the flow of the Yellow River is small, and it is impossible to replenish water by self-flow diversion. "

　　This is the scenery of Shandong Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve (drone photo) taken on October 31, 2022. Xinhua News Agency reporter Guo Xulei photo

　　In August last year, six sluice boats for diverting water from the Yellow River were completed in the nature reserve, and water was replenished as needed at any time according to the needs of animals and plants. The rolling Yellow River water infiltrated this vast land before it was injected into the Bohai Sea.

　　In recent years, the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve has built a scientific ecological water supply system of "diversion, transportation, storage and discharge", and at the same time, it has made great efforts to build a "river — Lu — Beach — "Sea" connectivity system, connecting the water system for 115 kilometers, dredging tidal gullies for 76 kilometers, and restoring hydrological connectivity between the Yellow River and the ocean. The original bare land and saline-alkali beach have become large wetlands with abundant aquatic plants and rich biodiversity.

　　Rushing from the depths of history, the Yellow River has nurtured generations of Chinese people. River soup, don’t give up day and night Today, under the guidance of the supreme leader’s ecological civilization thought, people all over the Yellow River are constantly exploring ways to protect the water of the Yellow River and striving to promote the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. (Reporter Shi Weiyan, Yuan Min, Zou Xinyuan, Li Ning, Chai Ting)

　　CCTV News:Formalism and bureaucracy in ecological environmental protection seriously deviate from the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee, infringe on the vital interests of the masses and restrict the sustainable development of economy and society. According to statistics, since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has publicly exposed 124 typical cases of formalism and bureaucracy in the field of ecological environmental protection, handling 482 people.

　　Judging from the types of problems, formalism and bureaucracy in the field of eco-environmental protection mainly focus on four aspects: negligence, ineffective rectification, lax control and fraud.

　　There were 68 cases of negligence and dereliction of duty, accounting for 54.8%. Some public officials are lax and untrue in their work style, and neglect to supervise and investigate environmental problems in their respective fields. Such problems are common manifestations of formalism and bureaucracy in the field of ecological environmental protection. For example, from December 2017 to July 2018, Deng Guoliang, director of the Economic Development Zone Branch of Ningxiang Environmental Protection Bureau in Changsha City, Hunan Province, led a team to the sewage treatment plant in the Economic Development Zone for many times to conduct on-site monitoring, and failed to stop the illegal trial operation of the plant without building an emergency pump and an emergency accident pool. It was not found that the biological pool of the plant stored a large amount of activated sludge, and the form was filled out to confirm that it was normal without confirming whether the relevant places and equipment were in normal operation, resulting in sewage overflow and sewage discharge accidents. Deng Guoliang was punished by government affairs.

　　There are 33 problems of poor rectification, accounting for 26.6% of all problems. In recent years, through environmental supervision, special inspections and other means, a number of outstanding problems that damage the ecological environment have been discovered in various places, but some public officials dare not touch the real thing in the rectification, which has delayed the solution of the problem. For example, in 2017, the Central Environmental Protection Inspector Group ordered the town government to organize forces to restore the original state to the beach contractor in Chongshou Town, Cixi City, Zhejiang Province. However, Qian Jianju, as the deputy mayor in charge of agriculture and the deputy director of the town’s "beach-length system" leading group, failed to complete the rectification task on time until September 2018, which caused adverse effects. In October 2018, Qian Jianju was punished by warnings within the party.

　　There were 12 cases of lax control, accounting for 9.7%. Judging from the notification problem, some public officials failed to fulfill their duties in the approval and issuance of documents such as sewage permits, allowing unqualified enterprises to pass the approval and pollute the environment. For example, in October, 2015, Zeng Yubo, director of the Law Enforcement Supervision Department of Environmental Water Affairs Bureau of Nansha Development Zone, Guangzhou, was responsible for the approval and issuance of pollutant discharge permits. Knowing that Nansha District Government had ordered a company to close its pipe pile manufacturing facilities in the first-class protection zone of drinking water sources, he did not correctly implement the administrative decision of the district government, and unilaterally thought that the district government had not ordered the company to dismantle or close its facilities in the second-class protection zone of drinking water sources, and continued to issue pollutant discharge permits valid for one year to the company. In December 2018, Zeng Yubo was punished.

　　There were 11 cases of fraud, accounting for 8.9%. For example, the relevant industry authorities in Xingren City, Southwest Guizhou Province knew that Jinxing Gold Mining had problems such as excessive stacking of tailings ponds and excessive discharge of pollutants, but did not carry out substantive supervision work and falsely reported the rectification situation when the rectification task was not completed. In January 2019, Cen Zhaohai, director of Xingren Environmental Protection Bureau, was punished by government affairs warning, and Cheng Rui, deputy stationmaster of environmental monitoring station, was punished by the party; Yuan Dajiang, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Southwest Guizhou Industrial and Information Committee, was admonished.

　　From the field of problems, formalism and bureaucracy in environmental protection mainly occur in environmental approval, environmental monitoring, environmental law enforcement and environmental engineering construction. Among them, 55 cases occurred in the field of environmental monitoring, accounting for 44.4%; 37 cases occurred in the field of environmental law enforcement, accounting for 29.8%; 21 cases occurred in environmental engineering construction, accounting for 16.9%; 11 cases occurred in the field of environmental approval, accounting for 8.9%.

　　With the deepening of the reform of the ecological civilization system, through the establishment of a comprehensive law enforcement team, covering all areas of ecological environmental protection, the investment in ecological environmental engineering construction has been increasing, but the problems of poor work deployment, lax and untrue measures, high attitude and low implementation can not be ignored. In this regard, we must pay close attention to the key areas where these problems are prone to occur frequently, adhere to both the symptoms and the root causes, and put the responsibilities in place.

　　Among the 482 party member cadres notified for investigation, there are 294 at the township level and below, accounting for 61%; 102 people at the county level, accounting for 21.1%; There are 38 people at the bureau level, accounting for 7.9%; There are 48 village cadres and staff of enterprises and institutions, accounting for 10%.

　　Judging from the notified cases, among the party member cadres investigated, there are not only the main leaders of local party organizations, but also party member cadres from functional departments such as Land and Resources Bureau, Environmental Protection Bureau and Water Affairs Bureau; There are both public officials responsible for supervision and inspection and party member cadres responsible for checking and approving; There are not only party and government leaders, but also relevant leaders of state-owned enterprises and village cadres. At the same time, it has become the norm to investigate more than one case. A formalism and bureaucracy problem in the field of ecological and environmental protection will be investigated and dealt with, not only the directly responsible person, but also the direct leader, the leader in charge and even the leader who has been transferred from the original post will be held accountable.

　　It is a major task for the discipline inspection and supervision organs to provide a strong discipline guarantee for the fight against pollution. Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels should base themselves on their functions and responsibilities, strengthen supervision and inspection, urge party committees and governments at all levels to conscientiously implement the major decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, and not take responsibility for inaction, formalism, bureaucratic stubborn diseases and outstanding problems in the field of ecological and environmental protection, and find that they are investigated together, and timely report and expose typical problems, and guard green mountains and green rivers with iron discipline. (CCTV reporter Wang Li)

　　(Editor: Yin Huixian)