The creation of Nanling National Park has achieved fruitful results and green and beautiful Guangdong has taken solid steps – China News Network – China News Network

China News Service, Guangzhou, December 10th: The creation of Nanling National Park has achieved fruitful results and green and beautiful Guangdong has taken solid steps

China News Service reporter Cheng Jingwei

Entering December, the Nanling National Nature Reserve in Guangdong is still lush and lush, where thousands of rare wild animals and plants live and thrive. The reserve is one of 14 nature reserves within the scope of Nanling National Park (to be established).

In recent years, Guangdong has continued to promote the creation of Nanling National Park. It has now met the requirements of the national park creation evaluation index system and entered the approval stage. The creation of Nanling National Park has achieved fruitful results and has taken solid steps to further support the ecological construction of green and beautiful Guangdong.

　　The ecological barrier in the Greater Bay Area becomes stronger

On December 8, 2022, the “Decision of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Promoting the Ecological Construction of Green and Beautiful Guangdong” (hereinafter referred to as the “Decision”) was reviewed and passed, delineating a roadmap and plan for building a harmonious symbiosis of Green and Beautiful Guangdong between man and nature. Task list.

The Nanling Mountains are majestic and majestic.Photo by Chen Jimin

The establishment of a national park system is an important measure for my country to promote natural ecological protection, build a beautiful China, and promote the harmonious coexistence between man and nature. The “Decision” proposes that by 2027, Guangdong will take the lead in building a “double garden” province of national parks and national botanical gardens.

Over the past year, Guangdong has made every effort to implement the “six major actions” including improving green and beautiful protected areas, and coordinate the construction of a natural protected area system with national parks as the main body. At present, Guangdong has made breakthrough progress in establishing Nanling National Park, and is simultaneously conducting research on the establishment of Danxia Mountain National Park.

Nanling has dense vegetation.Photo by Chen Jimin

According to reports, Guangdong is the first country in the country to implement a comprehensive patrol platform for natural protected areas in the province, achieving full coverage of existing natural protected area patrol work in Nanling National Park (to be established). At the same time, Nanling National Park (to be established) insists on focusing on natural restoration and reducing artificial intervention; targeting 148,400 hectares of natural forests in the region, it promotes the formation of natural forest closed conservation management and control zones and achieves refined management.

In the past two years, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government have integrated various funds and tilted it towards Nanling National Park (to be established), focusing on implementing pilot projects for ecological protection and restoration of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasses in the national park and surrounding areas, and gradually restoring the surrounding degraded areas. Ecosystem service functions.

At present, Nanling National Park (to be established) has preserved a complete mountain forest ecosystem and native vegetation vertical belt by integrating overlapping, overlapping, and merging 14 nature reserves with similar and connected areas, further optimizing the spatial pattern of ecological protection. The integrity and authenticity of the natural ecosystem are more prominent.

At the same time, as an important source area of ​​Beijiang and other rivers, Nanling National Park (to be established) has built a northern annular ecological security barrier, creating conditions for the superior ecological environment of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and making the ecological security barrier stronger.

　　Biodiversity protection has achieved remarkable results

In the Xiaohuangshan area of ​​Nanling National Nature Reserve in Guangdong, large tracts of Cantonese pines grow on the cliffs, forming a unique blue pine wonder. The person in charge of the protected area said that the scientific name of Guangdong pine is South China five-needled pine. The most peculiar thing is that the color of its pine leaves changes with the seasons.

With the further advancement of the construction of Nanling National Park, the biodiversity in the region has become richer. According to the latest statistics, Nanling National Park (to be established) has recorded a total of 5,527 species of wild animals and plants. It covers 1.07% of the province’s land area and effectively protects 56% of the province’s wild higher plants and 68% of its wild vertebral species. animals, and vegetation coverage and species populations have grown steadily.

Alligator lizard.Photo by Chen Jimin

The crocodile lizard is known as the “giant panda among reptiles.” In recent years, Guangdong Luokeng Crocodile Lizard National Nature Reserve has continuously strengthened the protection of crocodile lizards and their habitats. The wild population of crocodile lizards has been increasing year by year, and artificial breeding and reintroduction into the wild have continued. Currently, the wild population of crocodile lizards in the reserve is about 770 to 875, accounting for about two-thirds of the country’s wild population.

In recent years, a variety of newly recorded species have been discovered within the scope of Nanling National Park (to be established), including Nanling open arrow, Shimentai spider with eggs, Shimentai white silk grass, Beijiang salamander, etc.

　　Ecological beauty and common people are organically unified

In Wuzhishan Market Town (small town) in Ruyuan County, Shaoguan, early every morning, people buy and sell special agricultural products, Chinese herbal medicine and other products. Local specialty shops and B&Bs open their doors to welcome guests… The development of the local green ecological industry is becoming more and more prosperous.

The proposed entrance community of Qingyuan Area (Yangshan) of Nanling National Park.Photo by Cheng Jingwei

In the process of establishing Nanling National Park, Guangdong has made every effort to promote greenery to benefit and enrich the people, realizing the organic unity of ecological beauty and people’s wealth. It plans to build 7 national park entrance communities and 8 peripheral towns, and actively promotes a number of open ecological experiences. Community Building.

The relevant person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau said that Guangdong has established a co-construction, co-governance and sharing mechanism to support and regulate the indigenous residents of the Nanling National Park (proposed) community to engage in environmentally friendly business activities, guide and drive the transformation of related industries, and promote the increase of community employment opportunities and residents’ income, and promote the development of regional tourism in the outer circle.

From 2020 to 2023, Guangdong Provincial Finance has implemented a total of approximately 360 million yuan in preliminary work funds. The Provincial Development and Reform Commission and the Provincial Forestry Bureau have successively promoted the implementation of 33 projects with special bond funds of 4.019 billion yuan, which will be used to radiate and drive Nanling National Park (to be established) Construction of regional supporting infrastructure.

At present, Guangdong has completed projects such as the pilot clearance of three small hydropower stations within the Nanling National Park (to be established), the landscape improvement of the national park entrance corridor, and the national park boundary demarcation. It is orderly advancing the construction of the smart Nanling National Park and the construction of the Nanling National Park. Ridge National Park Museum and other projects.

As the core area of ​​the “Nanling Corridor”, the scope of the Nanling National Park (to be established) and its surrounding areas are distributed with Yao ethnic townships, Yao villages and other inhabited areas. In places such as the Hengjia Yao Township in Yangshan City, Qingyuan City, and Bibei Town, Ruyuan County, Shaoguan City, the “hometown of Yao people in the world”, the local living environment continues to improve and the traditional folk culture of the Yao people is better inherited and developed, creating a green environment. The ecological construction of Guangdong in the United States has added more bright colors. (over)