China News Service, Haikou, November 9 (Yin Jianjun, Temperate Brother) A high-level expert seminar on land consolidation and ecological restoration and a promotion meeting for comprehensive land consolidation in Hainan Province were held in Haikou on the 9th. The meeting brought together people from government, business, and academia to build consensus and clarify paths for the high-quality development of land remediation and ecological protection and restoration of the Hainan Free Trade Port through the coordination of ministries and provinces and the empowerment of high-end think tanks.
At the meeting, the Land Renovation Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Hainan Provincial Department of Natural Resources and Planning signed a cooperation framework agreement to jointly carry out comprehensive remediation of tropical island land space and ecological protection and restoration practices. The two parties will deepen cooperation in five major areas, including innovation in comprehensive land remediation models across the region, pilot projects for sustainable resource development, integrated protection and restoration of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grass and sand, pilot trials of policies, and collaborative innovation of land science and technology, and continue to improve the modernization level of natural resource management in the Hainan Free Trade Port.
On November 9, the Land Renovation Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Hainan Provincial Department of Natural Resources and Planning signed a cooperation framework agreement to jointly carry out comprehensive remediation of tropical island land space and ecological protection and restoration practices. Photo courtesy of Hainan Provincial Department of Natural Resources and Planning
Comprehensive land management across the entire territory is an important platform for optimizing the spatial pattern of land and realizing coordinated land and sea coordination, linkage between mountains and seas, and resource integration. It was pointed out at the meeting that Hainan will plan and promote comprehensive land consolidation and cultivated land protection, ecological restoration, human settlement environment improvement, geological disaster management, harmonious rural construction, landscape optimization and reshaping, cultural protection and inheritance, and integrated industrial development. It will coordinate ecological benefits, economic benefits, and social benefits, and coordinate development and protection. It will transform the potential of abundant natural resources and ecological advantages into high-quality development momentum, and promote urban-rural integration and coordinated regional development.
Hu Zhenqi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in an online lecture that Hainan should build the origin of the comprehensive land management model based on the characteristics of tropical islands, adhere to the empowerment of science and technology to improve the innovation-driven system, focus on the transformation of ecological value to solve value realization problems, and rely on high-end think tanks to build a long-term governance mechanism.
The meeting emphasized that all cities, counties, and relevant departments in Hainan must adhere to the bottom line of ecological protection and cultivated land protection, make good use of a package of policy "toolboxes", and create a number of models for land and space governance. At the same time, we will continue to focus on project reserve and targeted investment promotion, improve the operating model of "government guidance, market operation, financial empowerment, and win-win for all parties", strengthen collaborative supervision services throughout the process, and promote the quick start, quick construction, and quick results of rectification projects.
