Today (December 23), People's Daily reported in half a page that Lishui District's ecological butterfly change, turning green into gold, and activating new kinetic energy for high-quality development. In recent years, Lishui District, guided by the concept of "two mountains", has come out of a high-quality development road from "environmental improvement" to "ecological value-added".

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The forests of Wuxi Mountain are dyed, the swans of Shishu Lake float in the blue water, and the rice fields are golden ...... Every autumn and winter, the Lishui District of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, is brilliantly colored, and a beautiful picture scroll consisting of mountains, water, forests, fields, lakes, and grasses is spread out slowly.

Intelligent plant inlaid in the idyllic scenery, Guanshan industrial area of intelligent pharmaceutical logistics enterprise machine roaring, Shishanxia village, Caozhuang selenium-rich ecological park tourists like weaving ...... everywhere is a busy scene.

Lishui District is located in the south of Nanjing, which is the source of the 100-mile Qinhuai River, has 101 small and medium-sized reservoirs, and has a forest coverage of 36%. Lishui, guided by the concept of "two mountains", has come out with a high-quality development road from "environmental improvement" to "ecological value-added".
Prioritizing ecology and polishing the green color
Once upon a time, Jingqiao Town, 39 chemical enterprises pollution, low security, become a constraint on the local development of the "ecological pain point"; today, the river water is clear, fish and shrimp swimming, evening tourists come and go.

Under the guidance of the concept of "two mountains", Lishui has started the "ecological restoration war": all chemical enterprises and open-pit mining enterprises have been completely shut down, and nearly 100 million yuan has been invested in the renovation of Xinqiao River to stabilize its water quality above category III for a long time; and the project of "one hundred villages, one thousand ponds" and "rural sewage treatment" has been promoted simultaneously. "Hundreds of villages and thousands of ponds" "rural sewage treatment" project, 126 villages and ponds to reappear clear water and green banks, 82 planning to retain the village to achieve full coverage of sewage pipe network. Standing in the Nanjing Wisdom Recreation Innovation Park, blue factory buildings and riverbank green plants, the former "chemical city" into a blue water beautiful "big garden".
From 2020 to 2024, the air excellence rate of the whole district of Lishui will be increased from 80.3% to 82.2%, the average annual concentration of PM2.5 will be reduced by 17.1%; the water quality of centralized drinking water sources, national, provincial and municipal examination sections will reach the standard of 100%, the safe utilization rate of polluted arable land will be 100%, and it will be awarded the " National Ecological Zone" "National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration Zone", the level of green development in the country's top 100 districts in the forefront.

The ecological improvement has also brought about the return of living creatures, and wild animals such as pheasants and roe deer have appeared frequently. The Wuxi Mountain National Forest Park has built a biodiversity science museum and created a special ecological experience itinerary, and the name card of "Natural Oxygen Bar" is shining more and more.
"Institution + Science and Technology" Building Ecological Barriers
The ecological butterfly change comes from Lishui's systematic governance of "system building, technology empowerment, industry linkage".
Constructing a full chain ecological governance system: issuing the List of Responsibilities for Ecological Environmental Protection in Lishui District, clarifying the main responsibilities at all levels, incorporating major environmental emergencies into the cadre appraisal of "one-vote veto", and implementing 1.4 billion yuan of eco-compensation funds since 2015. The whole region has built a digital water operation and scheduling platform, realizing the "identity card type" management of river outfalls. More than 2,000 monitoring terminals have been integrated in the field of air pollution prevention and control, and a command and scheduling center has been built to realize the synergistic real-time control of PM2.5 and ozone.

Lishui insists on upgrading and attraction to promote industrial transformation. Lishui has closed 39 chemical enterprises and 113 "scattered and polluted" enterprises, revitalized 316.62 acres of inefficient industrial land, and built environmental protection projects such as "Industrial Green Island" and "Agricultural Green Island" to solve the problems of hazardous waste treatment and agricultural and forestry waste utilization of small scattered enterprises. It has built environmental protection projects such as "Industrial Green Island" and "Agricultural Green Island" to solve the problems of hazardous waste treatment and utilization of agricultural and forestry wastes of small scattered enterprises. The EOD (Ecological Environment Oriented Development) Pilot Project of Nanjing National Agricultural Hi-Tech Industrial Demonstration Zone in Jiangsu Province (referred to as Nanjing National Agricultural Hi-Tech Industrial Demonstration Zone for short) was selected into the provincial EOD project database.
Green Development Activating Ecological Value
Protecting the ecological environment is to protect the productive forces, and improving the ecological environment is to develop the productive forces. Good ecology is becoming an economic resource for Lishui to build up the competitiveness of the city.
Lishui has built one national and two provincial agricultural parks, and 88 leading agricultural enterprises have driven the proportion of green and high-quality agricultural products up to 83%. Nanjing National Agricultural High-Tech Zone located in Lishui District, as the only national agricultural high-tech zone in the Yangtze River Delta region, has led the level of modernization of agriculture to rank steadily in the first square of the province. Caozhuang selenium-rich eco-park in Jingqiao Township's "zero-carbon field" has led to a 15%-20% increase in the park's efficiency, and the annual carbon sink revenue is expected to be more than 50,000 yuan.

Industrial transformation to release new kinetic energy, Nanjing Wisdom Recreation Innovation Park in the former Chemical Industry Park on the site of the rise, "innovative manufacturing + wisdom medical" has become the industrial symbol of Jingqiao Town, has attracted 12 pharmaceutical distribution and electronic information enterprises stationed in the annual output value is expected to reach 2 billion yuan; Jingqiao Town, the output value of the pharmaceutical logistics industry is expected to exceed 1.5 billion yuan this year; Datang New Energy Project with an investment of 670 million yuan has landed in Zhishan Village, utilizing waste pits to build an 80 MW photovoltaic base, realizing a win-win situation in ecological restoration and energy production.

Ecological Jingqiao, to attract more "phoenix" to perch, three major projects in the city started construction, Jiangsu Yulin machinery, Nanjing Haohe and a number of key projects put into production; 2023, Jingqiao town to build "colorful Jingqiao" rural tourism brand, receiving tourists Since 2023, Jingqiao Town to build "colorful Jingqiao" rural tourism brand, receiving visitors 1.7 million times, generating revenue of 1.76 billion yuan.
Lishui has also achieved a number of results in the field of realizing the value of ecological products, the pilot area of "Eco-Island" in Wuxi Mountain, the provincial EOD pilot project in Nanjing National Agricultural High-tech Zone and other projects have been orderly promoted, and Golden Manor has been awarded the first SGS Carbon Footprint Certification for the fruit industry in the country; Lishui has been rated as the "Best Experience City of Slow Life Tourism in Yangtze River Delta", and the tourism revenue has exceeded 18 billion yuan. Lishui was awarded "the best experience city of slow life tourism in Yangtze River Delta", received more than 18 million tourists in 2024, and the tourism revenue exceeded 18 billion yuan, and the popularity of the red Lixiang study base, Mimidou Music Festival, and Strawberry Marathon has continued to expand, and the Luoshan Dalong Cultural Festival was selected as a key activity of "Water Rhythm Jiangsu-Nonfolk Relics Accompanying You to Celebrate the Great New Year" by the Culture and Tourism Department of Jiangsu Province. The activity.

Today, Lishui, under the guidance of the concept of "two mountains", is striving to write a new chapter on the harmonious coexistence of man and nature with the new practice of synergistically promoting carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth, and contributing more Lishui's power to the green development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
