Benefits of Saihanba as Saihanba
a tree, a forest. Maybe we can become a tree, maybe we can find a grassland that changes from a tree to a forest.
On December 5th, 217, at the 3rd United Nations Environment Assembly held in Nairobi, Kenya, Saihanba Forest Farm in Hebei Province was awarded the "Guardian of the Earth Award". "Guardian of the Earth Award" in Saihanba Forest Farm, Hebei Province, with a touch of "China Green" in the East. Chen Yanxian, Liu Haiying and Yu Shitao from Hebei Saihanba Machinery Forest Farm attended the meeting on behalf of three generations of Saihanba people.
The reason for winning the prize of Saihanba Forest Farm in Hebei Province: turning the vast wasteland into a lush forest.
Saihanba Afforestation Community for Transforming Degraded Land Into a Lush Paradise.
Saihanba is located at the northernmost part of Hebei Province, more than 4 kilometers north of Beijing.
"Saihanba" is a combination of Mongolian and Chinese, which means "beautiful high mountains". Saihanba Forest Farm covers an area of 1.4 million mu, about 93, hectares. Saihanba is rich in aquatic plants, and the forest volume per unit area reaches 2.76 times of the national average of artificial forests, 1.58 times of the national average of forests and 1.23 times of the world average of forests.
Wasteland 55 years ago
Historically, it used to be a famous natural garden with abundant water plants, dense forests and numerous animals. It was called "Thousand-Li Pine Forest" in Liao and Jin Dynasties. Kangxi of Qing Dynasty once set up "Mulan paddock" here. However, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the country was in decline, with internal troubles and foreign invasion. In order to make up for the emptiness of the national treasury, the "Mulan paddock" was opened for reclamation, all the trees were cut down, and the mountain fires continued. By the early days of liberation, the virgin forest had disappeared.
It's a miracle on earth that the wasteland turned into a beautiful forest after a long time
They worked hard and were willing to contribute in the desert sand. They created Saihanba as a miracle on earth that the wasteland turned into a beautiful forest. Ordinary people can't imagine how much effort they have made to restore green mountains and green rivers.
There are a series of shocking figures hidden behind a million mu of artificial forest. The average altitude is 15 meters, the average annual temperature is -1.4℃, which exceeds the minimum temperature of -43℃. For 55 years, three generations, the average annual gale of magnitude 6 or above reaches 76 days.
At that time, there was a proverb, "There is a wind every year, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year".
The story begins with the "meritorious tree" below, when there was a solitary pine tree on Saihanba.
At that time, when the researchers saw this pine tree in the vast desert, they had confidence. Since this pine tree can stand proudly today, they will certainly be able to recreate a beautiful forest. A pine on the plateau is exchanged for a sea. Blocking the sand source, containing the water source, the achievements have been passed down from generation to generation.
Entrepreneurs draw a beautiful blueprint
In September, 1962, 369 entrepreneurs gathered from all directions and went all the way up to Saihanba with youthful blood.
The first generation of female employees in Saihanba took a group photo with the words "Go Forward" written on it.
Saihanba, which has just been built, has only a small number of houses, and so many people come in at once. Everyone has nowhere to live, so they live in warehouses, garages and stables. If they can't live, they will build shacks.
The shack where Saihanba entrepreneurs once lived
At the beginning of the business, due to the lack of successful experience in afforestation in cold and high altitude areas, the survival rate of afforestation in 1962 and 1963 was less than 8% for two consecutive years.
entrepreneurs quickly found out the reasons for the failure of afforestation: foreign seedlings are easy to lose water and get hot during transportation, and they can't adapt to the climate of Saihanba.
So they decided to raise their own seedlings. After investigation, exploration and practice, they found out the technical essentials of cultivating high-quality and strong seedlings of "bearded and chubby".
Saihanba realizes full-light nursery
In the spring of 1964, Saihanba people launched a "horseshoe pit battle" and planted 516 mu, with a survival rate of over 9%, which greatly boosted their morale.
In those days, the young forest land of mechanical afforestation in Matikeng
was always full of ups and downs. In 1977, the forest farm suffered a serious "rainy season" disaster, and 2, mu of trees were bent and folded overnight, and more than half of the labor achievements of the forest farm for more than ten years were lost.
in 198, the forest farm was hit by the worst drought in a century, and more than 12, mu of trees were killed by the drought.
However, the Saihanba people were not defeated. They cleaned up the damaged trees suffered from "natural disasters" with tears, and reforested them with their own hands and started all over again.
by 1982, the forest farm had overfulfilled its task, planting 96, mu on the sandy wasteland, with a preservation rate of 7.7%, which was the highest among similar areas in China at that time.
At the Third United Nations Environment Assembly, Liu Haiying, director of Saihanba Forest Farm, said:
Over the past 55 years, people have planted trees and protected forests here. This forest farm is like a forester's own child.
in the 55 years the farm has existed, people have been growing trees and protecting the forest like their own children.
I believe that as long as we persist in promoting the construction of ecological civilization, China will certainly create more green mile like Saihanba after generations of struggle, and realize the harmony between man and nature.
I believe that, as long as we continue to promote ecological civilization, generation after generation, China can create more green miracles like Saihanba and eager harmony between humans and nature.
Saihanba has contributed China's strength to the world's environmental construction, demonstrated the spirit of China, and provided Saihanba as a sample from China. Saihanba has built a monument in the history of human ecological civilization.
Today's "meritorious tree"
According to the assessment of China Academy of Forestry, the forest ecosystem of Saihanba can conserve water, purify water quality by 137 million cubic meters, sequester 747, tons of carbon and release 545, tons of oxygen every year; The negative oxygen ions in the air are 8 to 1 times that in cities.
saihanba has a million mu of forest, which also brings remarkable economic benefits. In recent ten years, compared with the ten years when Saihanba was built, the average frost-free period increased by 14.6 days, the average annual precipitation increased by 66.3 mm, the average annual windy days decreased by 3 days, and the annual ecological service value was more than 12 billion yuan.
since the establishment of the farm 55 years ago, the state investment and self-raised funds of the forest farm have accumulated about 1.2 billion yuan. Today, the forest farm has an area of 1.12 million mu of forest land, with a total accumulation of 1.12 million cubic meters and a forest value of more than 4 billion yuan. According to the assessment, the total value of Saihanba resources is 2.2 billion yuan, and the ratio of input to output is 1 to 19.8.
The ecology is getting better and better, and the beauty of Saihanba has long been famous. Saihanba National Forest Park attracts more than 5, tourists every year, and the annual ticket income can reach more than 4 million yuan.
Saihanba has also started a carbon sink project. Afforestation carbon sinks and silviculture carbon sinks with a total emission reduction of 4.75 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in Saihanba Forest Farm have been put on record by the National Development and Reform Commission, of which 183, tons of afforestation carbon sinks have been listed for sale. This is by far the largest resource emission reduction carbon sink project issued by the national forestry carbon sink. If all of them are listed and traded, it is conservatively estimated that they can achieve income of hundreds of millions of yuan.
"Saihanba's account can't be counted only in the forest farm, it's a big account. Saihanba plays a great role in promoting green development and ecological poverty alleviation. As an example of ecological civilization construction, Saihanba has already exceeded its direct economic input-output ratio and is the unity of the three major benefits of ecology, economy and society. " Saihanba has truly built green mountains and green hills, and there is Jinshan Yinshan. The similarities between Saihanba and Youshi's ecological civilization construction
Saihanba, located in the northernmost part of Chengde, Hebei Province, was once included in the "Mulan paddock" of the Royal Hunting Garden in the Qing Dynasty as a beautiful ridge. However, due to excessive reclamation in the later period, Saihanba quickly degenerated into a barren wasteland and barren hills in a hundred years, which directly led to the rampant dusty weather in northern areas such as Beijing, and the regional economic and social development was also greatly affected. Therefore, since the mid-195s, with the active promotion of the CPC Central Committee, through the hard construction of three generations of Saihanba people for more than 5 years, Saihanba has finally changed from a desert that used to be "yellow sand covers the sky and birds have no trees" to the world's largest artificial forest with 1.15 million mu of artificial forest and vegetation coverage rate of more than 82%. This is not only a successful example of ecological civilization construction in China, but also a great miracle in the field of environmental protection around the world. It is an inevitable requirement for China to create brilliant ecological civilization construction by comprehensively and deeply summarizing and studying Saihanba's scientific and advanced ecological and cultural concepts and inheriting and continuing the outstanding spirit of Saihanba.
Eco-cultural experience in the construction of Saihanba
For many years, Saihanba people have always adhered to the scientific concept of eco-civilization construction, summed up experience and improved technical strategies in practice through persistent and tenacious struggle against harsh natural conditions, and always attached great importance to the preservation, protection and moderate development and utilization of ecological construction achievements, and finally successfully turned the barren Saihanba into a real green bank, initially forming a scientific and advanced eco-cultural system. The ecological culture of Saihanba construction is mainly manifested in three aspects: ecological civilization concept, ecological construction technology and ecological development system.
first, in terms of the concept of ecological civilization construction, Saihanba construction adheres to the scientific, feasible, practical and effective concept of ecological civilization construction on the basis of following objective laws and actual needs. The work of sand control and afforestation and seedling raising in Saihanba always follows the principle of "unified planning, division of responsibilities, adapting to local conditions, comprehensive management, equal emphasis on prevention and control, combination of treatment and utilization, emphasizing key points and stressing practical results", and the principle of "first treating slopes, then treating nests, first producing, then living", and vigorously invests financial funds, widely mobilizes the people, gives full play to the whole society's strength and makes rational use of resources in the sand area for organization and planning. The scientific advancement of Saihanba's concept of ecological civilization and culture lies in not only respecting objective facts and considering the current actual needs, but also paying attention to the efficiency and cost of practice, and building a systematic and complete ecological governance system. Secondly, on the technical level of ecological construction, Saihanba always advocates that science and technology are the primary productive forces, and insists on environmental governance and ecological reconstruction based on advanced scientific and technological means. On the one hand, the construction personnel of Saihanba actively learn from and absorb foreign advanced scientific and technological achievements and excellent strategic experience, and combine them with the production practice of Saihanba Forest Farm for research and exploration, insisting on the combination of production and scientific research, and insisting on scientific and technological research and innovation of scientific and technological achievements in the process of practical exploration, which provides strong technical support for the development of Saihanba Forest Farm. On the other hand, the Saihanba construction project also pays attention to the development and utilization of human resources, and actively encourages and invests senior engineers and other technical talents to join in solving technical problems such as seedling raising, afforestation, forest management and forest protection. Thirdly, at the level of ecological development system, Saihanba construction strictly implements the management system of combining forest management according to law, forest protection according to law and publicity and education from beginning to end, and severely cracks down on any form of illegal acts of deforestation and land reclamation and ecological destruction according to law. At the same time, adhere to the principle of moderation in the tourism development and resource utilization of forest farms in the later period, strictly control the number of tourists, adhere to equal emphasis on development and protection, and develop economy and ecology together.
The spiritual connotation of the construction of Saihanba shows
The remarkable achievements in the construction and development of Saihanba Forest Farm today are the result of the painstaking efforts and sweat of three generations of Saihanba people, and even their whole lives' hard work. It is the spirit of Saihanba that is still shining and shining with faith and belief, supporting generations of workers and the number of * * * producers. In August, 217, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave important instructions to the touching deeds of the builders of Saihanba Forest Farm, praising them for "creating the miracle of transforming the wasteland into a forest, interpreting Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets's ideas with practical actions, and forging the spirit of Saihanba with a clear mission, hard work and green development".
"Remember the mission" is the fundamental original intention and source power of Saihanba spirit. Under the call of the party, Saihanba people take "blocking sand source for the capital and conserving water source for Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei" as their ideal and mission, and inherit and earnestly practice it from generation to generation. Construction pioneers from all parts of the motherland, bearing in mind the entrustment of the Party and the people and their ardent longing for the bright future of the country, plunged into the great project of reclamation and afforestation and sand control in Saihanba. The first generation of builders held the belief that "if you come to Saihanba, this is home". married with children conscientiously practiced the great mission and responsibility entrusted by the party and the people, and integrated youth and ideals into the great mission of Saihanba construction. "Pioneering hard" is the core and essence of Saihanba spirit, and the builders of Saihanba have always fought tenaciously against the difficult natural environment and development dilemma based on this principle. In order to realize the reconstruction of Saihanba, the builders of the second generation of Saihanba "thirsty for river water, hungry for black oat noodles, busy with homework during the day and staying at the grass nest at night", and persisted in the extremely harsh environment for decades at the most difficult time. It is the lofty spiritual quality that needs to be inherited most in the development and construction of our society at present that we are not afraid of hardships, keep our original heart and live up to our mission. "Green development" is the pursuit and characteristic of Saihanba spirit. Saihanba is the successful practice and typical symbol of green sustainable development road, and it is the defender and pioneer of green and harmonious development. With the continuous efforts of the third generation of Saihanba builders, from barren hills to ecological forests, from log resources to ecological products, Saihanba has truly interpreted and realized the natural transformation from "green mountains and green hills" to "Jinshan Yinshan", realizing the dual development of ecological environmental protection and economic construction. In 221, Saihanba spirit became the first great spirit to be included in the spiritual pedigree of China producers, which fully demonstrated the significance of green development.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the importance of ecological civilization construction has become increasingly prominent in China's economic and social development. We have reached a critical period of comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. We can continue to make contributions at the historical intersection of "two hundred years" by excavating and learning the excellent experience of Saihanba's ecological culture construction, inheriting and carrying forward the lofty spiritual connotation of Saihanba's construction, and persistently continuing to follow the development path of paying equal attention to protection and development, and winning both ecology and economy. Saihanba inspires us to take what as the basic policy
Saihanba inspires us to take saving priority, protection priority and natural restoration as the basic policy.
Saihanba is a regional concept, especially the Bashang area of Weichang Manchu and Mongolian Autonomous County in Chengde City, Hebei Province, which broadly includes Saihanba mechanical forest farm, Yudaokou ranch, Hongshan military horse farm and Hongsongwa nature reserve.