Promote ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.

　　The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, and its protection is a great plan for the great rejuvenation and sustainable development of the Chinese nation.

　　"jointly do a good job in great protection and jointly promote great governance" and "make the Yellow River a river of happiness for the benefit of the people". General Secretary of the Supreme Leader recently hosted a symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and delivered an important speech. Focusing on the overall situation of national development, he clearly pointed out that the Yellow River Basin has a very important position in China’s economic and social development and ecological security, profoundly expounded the great significance of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, and made major arrangements to strengthen the management and protection of the Yellow River Basin and promote its high-quality development, which provided an important follow-up for us to jointly do a good job in great protection and jointly promote great governance, and will certainly better manage and protect the Yellow River and make it benefit the people.

　　Those who are good at games seek the potential, while those who are good at governance seek the overall situation. After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core further improved the strategic layout of national development and shaped a new pattern of regional coordinated development. The Yellow River Basin is an important ecological barrier and economic zone in China, and it is also an important area to win the battle against poverty. The ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, like the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, are major national strategies. Strengthening the management and protection of the Yellow River, promoting the high-quality development of the Yellow River basin, actively supporting the provinces and regions in the basin to win the battle against poverty, and solving the problems of flood control safety, drinking water safety and ecological safety that the people in the basin, especially the ethnic minorities, care about are of great significance to maintaining social stability and promoting national unity.

　　"The Yellow River is peaceful, and the world is peaceful". Since the founding of New China 70 years ago, the Party has led the people to open a new chapter in the cause of harnessing the Yellow River and created a historical miracle of the Yellow River in An Lan. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has focused on the overall situation of ecological civilization construction, and made clear the idea of "giving priority to water conservation, balancing space, systematically managing and exerting strength with both hands". Great changes have taken place in the economic and social development and people’s lives in the Yellow River Basin. Practice has proved that only under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, giving full play to the advantages of the socialist system, can we truly realize the historic transformation of the Yellow River management from passive to active. It is the common aspiration of hundreds of millions of people to forge ahead in a new era, build a new journey of dreams, strengthen the management and protection of the Yellow River and promote the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, which is an inevitable requirement for us to move towards high-quality development.

　　Harnessing the Yellow River should focus on protection and governance. To promote ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, it is necessary to thoroughly study and understand the spirit of the important speech of the Supreme Leader General Secretary and implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee. We should adhere to the concept of Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, adhere to ecological priority and green development, act according to the water, adjust measures to local conditions, make classified policies, and make overall plans for the upstream and downstream, main tributaries and left and right banks. It is necessary to adhere to the comprehensive management, systematic management and source management of landscapes, forests, fields, lakes and grasses, and focus on strengthening ecological protection and management, ensuring the long-term stability of the Yellow River, promoting the high-quality development of the whole basin, improving people’s lives, and protecting and inheriting the Yellow River culture. We should give full play to the superiority of China’s socialist system in concentrating on doing great things, firmly establish the idea of "playing a game of chess", respect the law, and pay more attention to the systematicness, integrity and synergy of protection and governance. Qi Xin will work together to create a new situation of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.

　　"The Yellow River falls to the East China Sea, and Wan Li writes in his mind". Promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin is not a day’s work. As long as we maintain our historical patience and strategic determination, we must have my historical responsibility in order to succeed in my spiritual realm and success. We must plan the long-term and work in the present, draw a blueprint to the end, and work one after another, and we will certainly make the Yellow River a river of happiness for the benefit of the people.

　　People’s Daily (September 21, 2019, 02 edition)