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Y. Sun
Shui, the Shiyang River, the Shule River and the Haerteng River—in western China,
with numerous oases distributed across the region that block the convergence of
Tengger and Badain Jaran Deserts. The deserts and semi-desert grasslands along the
northern Qilian Mountains also help protect the oases along the Hexi Corridor.
Third, Gansu is a region that curbs sandstorms. The province gives birth to sandstorms and is on the path through which the sandstorms generally pass while moving
eastwards. As such, it plays an important role in preventing desertification in northwest China, protecting the forests that help conserve water in the upper reaches
of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, reducing soil erosion in the Loess Plateau and
the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and restoring and protecting the ecological environment
within the catchments of the inland river, thus reducing the sand and dust blowing
from northwest to southeast China.
2 Resolutely Implementing Xi Jinping Thought
on Ecological Civilization, and Getting the Significance
of the Qilian Mountains’ Ecological Environment
Protection and Development from a Strategic Perspective
As a “lifeline” for the Hexi Corridor in Gansu, the Qilian Mountains, designated
a national nature reserve in 1988, has diverse ecosystems offering a great ecological service function with an important role for water conservation. With a unique
geographical location, this region helps stop the Tengger, Badain Jaran and Kumtag
Deserts from sprawling southwards, maintain the oases along the Hexi Corridor, and
conserve the run-offs to the Yellow River, thus forming a vital ecological barrier in
northwest China.
General Secretary Xi Jinping always pays great attention to the development
of ecological civilization and environmental protection, and calls for speeding up
the construction of an ecological security system for creating a benign loop of the
ecosystem as well as effective prevention and control of environmental risks. On
January 16, 2017, Focus Report featured a report on the damaged ecological environment in the Qilian Mountains national nature reserve, and from February 12 to
March 3, the central inspection team carried out a special inspection of this issue.
Then, the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central
Committee and the Party Group Meeting of the State Council listened to the report
on the inspection. Later, the former conducted an in-depth analysis of ecological
destruction in the reserve, and notified the issue nationwide. Moreover, the State
Council meeting studied the supervision, protection and restoration of the ecological
environment in the reserve; On June 1, the Office of the Central Government and
the Office of the State Council issued “A Notification of the Supervision and Treatment of Ecological and Environmental Issues in Gansu’s Qilian Mountains National
Nature Reserve and the Lessons that Have Been Learned,” a report showing, at a
deeper level, that the Central Committee with comrade Xi Jinping at its core were
Y. Sun
Shui, the Shiyang River, the Shule River and the Haerteng River—in western China,
with numerous oases distributed across the region that block the convergence of
Tengger and Badain Jaran Deserts. The deserts and semi-desert grasslands along the
northern Qilian Mountains also help protect the oases along the Hexi Corridor.
Third, Gansu is a region that curbs sandstorms. The province gives birth to sandstorms and is on the path through which the sandstorms generally pass while moving
eastwards. As such, it plays an important role in preventing desertification in northwest China, protecting the forests that help conserve water in the upper reaches
of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, reducing soil erosion in the Loess Plateau and
the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and restoring and protecting the ecological environment
within the catchments of the inland river, thus reducing the sand and dust blowing
from northwest to southeast China.
2 Resolutely Implementing Xi Jinping Thought
on Ecological Civilization, and Getting the Significance
of the Qilian Mountains’ Ecological Environment
Protection and Development from a Strategic Perspective
As a “lifeline” for the Hexi Corridor in Gansu, the Qilian Mountains, designated
a national nature reserve in 1988, has diverse ecosystems offering a great ecological service function with an important role for water conservation. With a unique
geographical location, this region helps stop the Tengger, Badain Jaran and Kumtag
Deserts from sprawling southwards, maintain the oases along the Hexi Corridor, and
conserve the run-offs to the Yellow River, thus forming a vital ecological barrier in
northwest China.
General Secretary Xi Jinping always pays great attention to the development
of ecological civilization and environmental protection, and calls for speeding up
the construction of an ecological security system for creating a benign loop of the
ecosystem as well as effective prevention and control of environmental risks. On
January 16, 2017, Focus Report featured a report on the damaged ecological environment in the Qilian Mountains national nature reserve, and from February 12 to
March 3, the central inspection team carried out a special inspection of this issue.
Then, the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central
Committee and the Party Group Meeting of the State Council listened to the report
on the inspection. Later, the former conducted an in-depth analysis of ecological
destruction in the reserve, and notified the issue nationwide. Moreover, the State
Council meeting studied the supervision, protection and restoration of the ecological
environment in the reserve; On June 1, the Office of the Central Government and
the Office of the State Council issued “A Notification of the Supervision and Treatment of Ecological and Environmental Issues in Gansu’s Qilian Mountains National
Nature Reserve and the Lessons that Have Been Learned,” a report showing, at a
deeper level, that the Central Committee with comrade Xi Jinping at its core were