Xinhuanet Guangzhou, February 2 (Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang) In the natural environment of "a pole can grow into a tree", if we don't build this land well, it is a green commitment of Guangzhou people to the city where they live. Indeed, Guangzhou has the conditions to achieve its goals. However, in such a modern metropolis with a highly developed economy, how to plan and build an eco-city scientifically and reasonably is an important task.
This big city with a long history of more than 2,200 years, a population of10 million and an area of 7,434 square kilometers. The total economic output has been ranked third in big cities in China for 15 years. In 2006, the regional GDP was 606.84 billion yuan, and the per capita resident population was 7,800 dollars. Up to now, the city's forest coverage rate is 38%, the tree greening rate is 43.3%, and the per capita public green area is 12.02 square meters.
Chen Guo, deputy mayor of Guangzhou, told reporters: "Guangzhou is not complacent about these data, but has put forward the goal of building an eco-city to make Guangzhou a city suitable for entrepreneurship and living." On the basis of solving the problem of "full stomach", Guangzhou people put forward a new requirement: "living in the forest", focusing on "full lungs" and "health, eye protection and mental health". "
Therefore, standing at a new historical starting point, Guangzhou has further emancipated its mind, set up a world vision, insisted on taking Scientific Outlook on Development as the overall economic and social development, strengthened urban ecological construction and protection, and actively explored new ways to transform from industrial civilization to ecological civilization. In September 2003 and August 2006, the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government held a meeting of 3,000 people attended by five teams in Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, and deployed and implemented the first and second phases of the "Green Mountain, Blue Sky and Clear Water" project in the city to build the urban forest ecosystem in Guangzhou with the model of "forest belt+forest area+garden".
Strong economic strength provides a solid material foundation for the construction of ecological civilization. In 2003, Guangzhou started the "Green Mountain, Clear Water and Blue Sky" project with a total investment of more than 40 billion yuan. The first phase of the project has built 13 1 square kilometer of green space. 33 green squares, 55 urban parks, road (river) green belts 12 1 and three-dimensional green overpasses and footbridges 105 have been newly built and renovated in the central city, forming a landscape corridor of "evergreen in all seasons and blooming in three seasons"; In the urban-rural fringe, 16 urban trunk forest belts, 13 suburban forest areas and 1 19 forest landscape nodes were built, and 640 quarries were shut down and rectified, basically forming an urban forest landscape system combining point, line and surface.
Guangzhou's "two lungs" are the source of life in this city. "North Lung" is a 33,000-mu forest park in Baiyun Mountain. Become a leisure resort for citizens to climb high and take oxygen and entertain themselves. Every day, elderly backpackers walk up and down the mountain in twos and threes, and the chorus spontaneously organized by the people at the top of the mountain becomes a beautiful scenery on Baiyun Mountain. "Nanfei" is an orchard with an area of18,000 mu, which has paved green carpets on both sides of the Pearl River. Professor CoCo Lee, director of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning of South China Agricultural University, told the reporter: "This 10,000-mu orchard is located in an excellent location in Guangzhou. Numerous real estate developers are eyeing this land, and they are willing to take out such a large area to plant trees. This shows the determination of Guangzhou leaders to build a forest city, and you can imagine how much pressure and temptation they have to bear. "
Guangzhou has140,000 mu of rural "fengshui forest", which is a kind of woodland left over from China's rural history and is also very common in villages in Guangzhou. A few years ago, some people put forward different views on "Feng Shui Lin". However, Guangzhou people did not argue. In view of the characteristics and existing problems of village construction, greening and environment, they put forward targeted measures and methods to build a new green countryside, actively guide and help, make unified planning, fully protect the original plants and ancient and famous trees, and carefully afforest and maintain the "Fengshui Forest" to connect it with road greening and courtyard greening.
From 20041February to April 2006, Guangzhou invested 2.49 million yuan to carry out the background investigation of terrestrial wildlife resources, and found that Guangzhou is a metropolis with rich biodiversity, with 300 species of birds, accounting for more than 20% of the country. Among them, more than 20 species of Chinese merganser, oriental white stork and national second-class protected birds were recorded. In terms of mammals, traces of the activities of clouded leopards and water deer were found in Conghua. What is more gratifying is that in 2007, red muntjac, which has not been seen for many years, was found in many places in Baiyun Mountain in the urban area, further indicating that the quality of urban forests is improving.
In the past five years, Guangzhou's financial investment in forestry ecological construction has increased by 22.48% annually, reaching 330 million yuan in 2007, and the operating mechanism of diversified investment by government, enterprises and individuals has been gradually established. Guangzhou is determined to "exchange big green for big beauty and big beauty for big profit", and puts forward that the green content of the city is the gold content. Guo Qinghe, director of Guangzhou Forestry Bureau, said: "Guangzhou's forestry development measures plan to set up green trees, adhere to the ecological benefits as the center, and even give up the immediate economic benefits to a great extent. But from the perspective of scientific development, the immediate necessary sacrifice will bring more long-term benefits. We want to leave the Millennium' Flower City' in the forest. "
In the process of promoting the transformation from industrial civilization to ecological civilization, Guangzhou actively explores a new model of ecological civilization construction. Through the development of urban forest construction, the urban ecological environment has been improved, the image of the city has been enhanced, and the comprehensive competitiveness of the city has been enhanced, setting a model for the coordinated development of economic construction and ecological protection for the whole country. Zhu, secretary of Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, said: "Forestry is the cornerstone of building an eco-city. Guangzhou has a population of more than 1000 million, and running forestry well is a great cause for the benefit of the people, the shade of trees and future generations. Guangzhou should strive to build a central city forestry ecosystem that highlights Guangzhou's characteristics and sustainable development from the height of building ecological civilization. " There is no ecological forest in Guangzhou.