People who live up to the green hills will live up to them.
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People who live up to the green hills will live up to them.
Dong Hongru (national model worker, "the most beautiful guardian of nature", former director of Sumushanlin Forest Farm in Xinghe County, Wulanchabu City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region)
Figure Sketch: Yang Zhenhui
"Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", the old man I saw with my own eyes, has become a reality in our Sumu Mountain!
Sumu Mountain is located at the junction of the three provinces (regions) of Shanxi, Mongolia and Hebei. "There are many deep stones in Shandagou, and it climbs as soon as you go out", with high altitude and cold climate. In the 1950s, it was still a barren hill with only a few birch trees growing sporadically in the shade.
In 1958, at the age of 19, I took two "treasures" — — Afforestation Technology and On the Cultivation of Communist party member came to Sumu Mountain and became a ranger. Since then, the "Greening Action" has started.
Sumushan land "temper" monster. At first, we tried to plant poplar, birch, apricot and elm, but none of them could grow. Later, I finally found a suitable sapling — — Larix principis-rupprechtii In the autumn of 1966, we began to plant larch on a large scale. In the second year, young trees took out new shoots, and the survival rate was over 90%. By 1980, we had planted more than 100,000 mu in Sumu Mountain, and survived more than 80,000 mu, with an output value of more than 300 million yuan, which successfully filled the afforestation gap in the alpine mountainous area in western Inner Mongolia.
In this way, year after year, generation after generation, cold comes and summer goes, and it took decades for our forest farm to finally change from barren hills to mountains and forests!
Today, Sumushan has a forested area of 205,000 mu and a forest coverage rate of 74.8%, making it a national standard ecological public welfare forest demonstration base. Sumushan Nature Reserve can increase the average annual forest stock by 11,000 cubic meters, and the ecological services provided by forest resources in water conservation, soil fixation, carbon fixation and oxygen release, atmospheric environment purification, forest recreation and other aspects are as high as hundreds of millions of yuan each year.
Green is the greatest wealth of Sumushan Forest Farm. In recent years, more than 100,000 tourists have visited Sumu Mountain every year. "Swim in Sumu Mountain and eat and live in Lujiaying." By selling local products, building villagers’ lodging and special catering, Lujiaying Village at the foot of the mountain has had a "tourist meal" brought by "green water and green mountains" and has become a "online celebrity Village" and a "rural revitalization demonstration village". Eco-tourism drives local people to increase their income and become rich, and a good ecological environment has become the most inclusive livelihood and welfare.
With the continuous progress of ecological civilization construction, the Sumu forest farm is different from our time. Not only is the forest length system fully implemented, but there are standardized work processes for afforestation, forest protection and fire prevention, and the working conditions for forest protection such as pest control, replanting and tending have also been greatly improved.
Although I am over eighty years old, I will go back to Sumu Mountain from time to time to see where I have fought for a long time. I have done one thing in my life, and that is planting trees. Nowadays, the green hills are getting greener and greener, the woods are being better and better protected by the younger generations, and the people around them are living a more comfortable life.
People live up to the castle peak, and the castle peak will live up to people. My whole life has been worth it!
(Interview with Guangming Daily reporter Yang Shu)
