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The Yellow River wetland in Luoyang City, central China's Henan Province, January 16, 2025. /CFP
The Yellow River Basin is a key grain production region and an important energy base in China that plays a crucial role in ensuring security and supply. According to an expert on the sector, food and energy security will remain the main challenge as China pursues rejuvenation.
"Through comprehensive management of industrial pollution sources, agricultural diffuse pollution, and domestic pollution, the water quality in the Yellow River Basin has undergone notable improvement," said Xia Lu, an associate professor at the School of Party History and Party Building and a research fellow at the National Academy of Development and Strategies, Renmin University of China.
Xia made the remarks in response to a question about opinions on comprehensively promoting ecological conservation and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin reviewed at the meeting held by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Monday.
It was noted at the meeting that ecological conservation and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin is a matter of profound significance for the great rejuvenation and sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
"Concurrently, effective measures have been implemented to advance the recycling and water-saving retrofitting of urban and industrial water, resulting in a marked enhancement of water resource utilization efficiency," Xia said.
Furthermore, traditional industrial bases within the Yellow River Basin have actively pursued transforming and upgrading high-energy-consuming and high-pollution industries, such as coal and chemicals, while fostering the development of green energy and environmental protection industries, the expert noted.
Monday's meeting also highlighted the need to continue to improve the well-coordinated ecological conservation in the Yellow River basin, systemically improve water source conservation capacity in the upper reaches, strengthen water and soil conservation in the middle reaches, and promote wetland protection and ecological governance in the lower reaches.
"By adhering to ecological priority, promoting green and sustainable development, strengthening cross-regional coordination mechanisms, and focusing on systematic and holistic governance, particularly to treat the environment and national economy as a dynamic and entire body, the protection of the Yellow River Basin can be seamlessly integrated with the regional coordinated development strategy," Xia told CGTN.
The Yellow River, the "mother river" of the Chinese nation, is the second-longest river in China, spanning 5,464 kilometers. It supplies water to 12 percent of China's population in more than 50 cities and irrigates 17 percent of the country's arable land.
The Yellow River basin had been the cradle of the country's political, economic, and cultural centers for 3,000 years in the 5,000-year history of the Chinese civilization.
Since ancient times, Chinese people have struggled against the flooding of the Yellow River, and conservation of the river has always been high on the country's agenda.