On September 18, 2021, the Shandong Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development On-site Promotion Conference was held in Jinan. This time, 193 key projects in Shandong were started, with a total investment of 126.1 billion yuan. According to reports, this is the second batch of key projects for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin to be started in Shandong Province in 2021.

The projects started this time cover comprehensive management of environmental pollution, water resources conservation and intensive use, ecological protection and restoration, water ecological protection, industrial development, infrastructure, cultural tourism and other fields. Among them, ecological protection projects accounted for more than half of the total number of projects started.

Liu Jiayi, secretary of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, attended the promotion meeting. He said that the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin is a long-term plan for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and a major national strategy. In the past two years, Shandong has strengthened top-level design and systematic planning, combined with actual and creative promotion of various work implementations, basically established a planning policy system, continued to improve the quality of the ecological environment, and steadily improved the ability to guarantee water safety. The dream of living in peace has been basically realized, and the momentum of green and high-quality development is good.

Liu Jiayi said that to implement this major national strategy, we must maintain strategic determination and historical patience, and do a solid job of all tasks. Based on the new development stage, we must fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, serve and integrate into the new development pattern, strictly implement the protection and governance requirements, put the protection of the ecological environment of the Yellow River Basin in an overwhelming position, and insist on water-based City, land by water, people by water, and production by water, coordinate the promotion of the management of landscape, forest, field, lake, grass and sand system, promote the overall green transformation of economic and social development, and strive to create a pioneering area for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.

Liu Jiayi said that it is necessary to unswervingly promote ecological environmental protection management, strengthen comprehensive management, system management, source management, pay attention to large-scale investigations and remediation, fight pollution prevention and control battles, pay attention to the protection of the Yellow River Delta and ecological protection and restoration, and make the lower Yellow River green Ecological barrier. It is necessary to unswervingly strengthen the protection of water safety and optimal utilization, improve the flood prevention and disaster reduction system, strengthen the supervision of the Yellow River's water resources, promote the conservation and intensive water use, and firmly maintain the bottom line of water safety. It is necessary to unswervingly accelerate the conversion of new and old kinetic energy, advance three resolutely, implement a new round of four reductions and four increases, and resolutely curb the blind development of the two high projects. It is necessary to unswervingly promote coordination and linkage, strengthen regional linkage, land-sea coordination, and transportation interconnection, and give full play to the leading role of the Shandong Peninsula city cluster.

In addition, we must unswervingly deepen reform and innovation, and improve the ecological compensation mechanism, the value realization mechanism of ecological products, the green threshold mechanism, and the protection and inheritance mechanism of the Yellow River culture. It is necessary to insist that the province assume the overall responsibility, the cities and counties shall implement it, strictly implement the same responsibility of the party and the government, and one post with two responsibilities, improve the performance evaluation mechanism, vigorously promote the strict style of work, and promote the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin to make new breakthroughs and make new progress. Steps to make Shandong's contribution to making the Yellow River a happy river for the benefit of the people. Editor/He Yuting