China News Service, March 4th Title: Xi Jinping's Question at the Two Sessions丨"Is Taihu Lake a little better?"

"Is Taihu Lake a little better?"

"Is there no cyanobacteria?"

On March 5, 2023, when attending the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the First Session of the 14th National People's Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping asked about the governance of Taihu Lake.

"Singing 'Taihu Beauty' in the song, how beautiful! But when you think of blue-green algae, you get tired of it."

Cyanobacteria is the most primitive and oldest algae plant. In 2007, due to the discharge of industrial and domestic sewage, Taihu Lake's water quality experienced eutrophication problems, and a "cyanobacteria crisis" broke out.

"We say that green waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains. If the ecology is not done well, it will not be 'gold and silver mountains', but will become a loss of money." General Secretary Xi Jinping said earnestly.

After the "cyanobacteria crisis", Jiangsu regards Taihu Lake governance as a landmark project in the construction of ecological civilization. After years of governance, breakthroughs have been made in Taihu Lake’s water quality improvement.

In 2024, the average water quality of Taihu Lake reached good lake standards for the first time in 30 years, setting a new benchmark for the world's large shallow lake management.

Respect nature, adapt to nature, protect nature, and promote harmonious coexistence between man and nature are distinctive characteristics of Chinese modernization.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has a very important opinion on ecological and environmental protection work.

In Zhengding, Hebei, the "Zhengding County Economic, Technology and Social Development Master Plan" he presided over and emphasized "I would rather not have money than pollution"; in Ningde, Fujian, he said, "When is the mountains in eastern Fujian green, and when is the mountains of eastern Fujian rich?" In Anji, Zhejiang, he put forward the scientific conclusion that "green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains"...

Ecological and environmental problems are ultimately economic development mode issues, how do you look at them from a distance? How to do it nearby? General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly clarified the dialectical unity of the environment, economy, development and protection on many occasions.

"You must never exchange for temporary economic development at the cost of sacrificing the ecological environment";

"If the ecological environment is damaged, even production capacity with demand must be shut down, especially polluted production capacity with great opinions from the masses, and the development of killing chickens to get eggs and fishing through the pond has come to an end. The green development of adapting to nature and protecting the ecology shows the future";

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People live up to the green mountains, and green mountains will definitely live up to the people. A good ecological environment is both a natural wealth and an economic wealth.

In recent years, the sky has become bluer, the water is cleaner, the air is fresher, and the environment around you is getting better and better. This is the common feeling of the Chinese people.

In the past year, the proportion of excellent days in the country has reached 87.2%, the proportion of excellent water quality sections in the country has reached 90.4%, the forest coverage rate has exceeded 25%, and the area of ​​artificial forests ranks first in the world, becoming the country with the most greening in the world.

The environment is people's livelihood, green mountains are beauty, and blue sky is happiness.

As General Secretary Xi Jinping said, "A generation has its own mission. Building an ecological civilization is a reward for the present and a great success. Let us start from ourselves and from now on, and pass on the batons one by one."

Producer: Chen Lujun

Producer: Zhang Mingxin

General planning: Yu Lan

Planning: Wu Qingcai

Coordinator: Ma Xueling Kan Feng

Written by: Li Jingtong

Proofreader: Sun Jingbo

Visual: Si Fang

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