Source: Xuexi.cn
“At least 20,000 steps a day, 2-hour inspection.” As the head of the village, and the village-level river chief of the Daihe tributary, Gao Junping, secretary of the Party branch of Xiaomi Hetou Village, Qinhuangdao Development Zone, Hebei Province, said that he is used to inspecting the Daihe Ecological Park built by the river on the garbage dumping and sewage draining, and he has been doing that for 3 years.
“The ecological environment of the Daihe River has been improved greatly. It used to be stinking water. There were no plants on the river bank, and no one wanted to approach. But now, it has been the favorite of the local people, and attracted the tourists of other cities.” Gao Junping said, adding that the change of Daihe’s ecological environment reflects the ecological campaigns in the development zone on the mountains, waters, and enterprises. “It is our goal to insist on the development of green, circulation, and low-carbon, to build an ecological park with lush mountains, clear waters and sky blue, and an industrial park that is good for living, business, and tourism!” Said Su Jingwen, director of the Management Committee of Qinhuangdao Development Zone.
The former quarry area has been transformed into the beautiful Garden Expo Park. Photo by Liu Wenhao
Make the mountains greener
In the summer of 2018, the 2nd Garden Expo of Hebei Province with the theme of “The City of the Mountains and the Sea with Green Dream” was held in the east side of Qiyunshan Hill. A modern garden expo park with beautiful scenery, beautiful mountains and waters, and distinctive features displayed the diligence and wisdom of the people of development zone, which has become the bright business cards for Qinhuangdao to create an ecological landscape.
But this 200-meter stone hill used to be a large quarry covered with exposed rocks and garbage in 2017.
According to Zhang Fenglan, an old resident of Qinhuangdao City, this area was the quarrying area for the construction of Qinhuangdao City. There were nearly 100 mine pits in different sizes after years of excavation. The rock wall of the mine pit and even the mountain were damaged, and the soil erosion was serious. They looked like big “scars” from the distance.
Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. In July 2017, Qinhuangdao Development Zone started the Qiyunshan Ecological Restoration Project and the construction of Qinhuangdao Garden Expo Park, to build the most beautiful landscape hill in Qinhuangdao, integrating the beauty of ecology, life, and production, through the restoration of mountain mine pits, and the construction of vegetation landscape.
“It’s hard to imagine that it has become a beautiful park in no more than a year, it is a miracle!” Zhang Fenglan said happily.
The mine has turned into green mountain, and the wasteland into green land. At present, Qinhuangdao Development Zone has invested nearly 6 billion yuan to build the open square, the Xiangyuan Ecological Park, the Forest Sports Park, the Zhanyuan Plaza, the Daihe Ecological Park and other garden landscapes, with the planting area of garden green space of 12060 mu, and the park green area of 4025 mu, which is 15 times more than that of 10 years ago. The green coverage rate of the built-up area in the whole district is 40.02%, the green land rate is 38%, and the per capita park green area is 14.7 square meters.
The beauty of the Forest Sports Park attracts many Qinhuangdao citizens and tourists to come. Photo by Geng Xiwei
Make the waters clearer
“A few years ago, the vegetation on the banks of the river was destroyed. People suffered drought in winter and flood in summer. It was a mess with garbage everywhere. But now it is different, lush trees, blooming flowers, singing birds are everywhere, and the old stinking ditch has become a happy river flowing from the east to the west.” Qinhuangdao citizens praised the Daihe renovation project.
Since 2011, Qinhuangdao Development Zone has carried out all-round renovation of the abandoned Shenhe section of Daihe River, and has successively built the Shenhe core area, the 2nd phase of Shenhe landscape belt, and the non-landscape connecting section, with a total length of about 9.3 kilometers and an area of about 185.2 hectares. The overall pattern of “one belt, five parks, and eighteen spots” was formed, and an ecological park (later renamed Daihe Ecological Park) was built integrating functions of flood control, water storage, ecology and landscape.
In 2018, taking the source as the starting point, Qinhuangdao Development Zone gave full play to the role of the “river chief system” “bay chief system” and “lake chief system”, to strengthen grid management, implement the responsibility area, and carry out strict supervision on daily routines. At the same time, the “one river one policy” program was carried out to improve the water quality of the rivers in the region. With the investment of 1.3 billion yuan, the ecological environment of the Daihe region has been greatly improved, the scenery along the banks of the river is picturesque, and the water quality of the river section of the park is stable in Class III of surface water, and in Class II standard in some months. It was awarded the “Model Award for Human Living Environment ” in Hebei Province.
The ecological environment of the Daihe Ecological Park has been greatly improved and revitalized after renovation. Photo by Liu Wenhao
Make the sky bluer by governing the enterprises
“To achieve a fundamental improvement in the ecological environment of the development zone, we should standardize the production behavior of enterprises in the region, and comprehensively promote ultra-low emission.” This is the unshakable goal of policy makers in the Qinhuangdao Development Zone.
In the past few years, Qinhuangdao Development Zone has taken the enterprises’ ecological environment as the priority, and focused on the prevention and control of the air pollution, water pollution and soil pollution, adopting the measure of one enterprise one policy, to strictly carry out the environmental engineering, monitoring, and education to enhance enterprises’ environmental awareness. Thanks to the investment of billions of environmental protection funds, the enterprises in the development zone have fully realized clean production. Among them, the environmentally-friendly dust suppression device developed by Qinhuangdao Capital Starlight Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. became the “environmental guardian” for industrial dust control. Qinhuangdao Jinhai Food Industry Co., Ltd. replaced the electric dust removal and limestone-gypsum desulfurization, Qinhuangdao Tobacco Machinery Co., Ltd. changed its energy structure from coal to natural gas, and CITIC Daika applied water source heat pump treatment system to achieve energy saving and emission reduction. In 2018, the average annual concentration of PM2.5 in the development zone was 43 micrograms per cubic meter, down 10.42% year-on-year, over fulfilled the goal of 44 micrograms per cubic meter; excellent days of the year was 284 days, an increase of 25 days compared to 2017.
Today, the beautiful ecological environment has become the golden signboard for investment promotion in Qinhuangdao Development Zone. Investment projects of a group of Fortune 500 companies and leading industrial enterprises such as General Electric of the United States, ADM of the United States, China Shipbuilding Industry Group, and Singapore’s Wilmar International Co., Ltd. have settled down, adding vitality to the regional economy.
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