Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia on the 16th.
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Xi Jinping conducted an inspection and research on ecological protection and the development of the green computing industry in Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Xinhua News Agency, Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, October 16th Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, emphasized during an inspection in Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on the 16th that green development is the indispensable meaning of high-quality development. It is necessary to coordinate high-quality development and high-level protection, adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass, and sand, coordinately promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, and unswervingly follow the path of ecological priority and green development.
On the morning of the 16th, Xi Jinping, accompanied by Wang Weizhong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Bao Gang, Chairman of the People's Government of the Autonomous Region, came to Ulanqab City for inspection and investigation.
Huangqihai, located in the Chahar Right Front Banner of Ulanqab City, is an inland closed lake that was once on the verge of drying up due to climate and other influences. After years of comprehensive management, the water area has gradually recovered and expanded. Xi Jinping came to the Huangqihai Nature Reserve and listened to reports on the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's strengthening of ecological environment protection and local promotion of comprehensive environmental management and ecosystem restoration of the Huangqihai. He also inspected the waterfront tidal flat ecology and habitat birds on the spot. He emphasized that the importance of wetland protection lies in maintaining the original ecology. We must adhere to respecting nature, complying with nature, and protecting nature, fully implement the Wetland Protection Law, strictly abide by ecological protection red lines, strive to improve the quality and stability of ecosystems, and maintain biodiversity. For degraded wetland ecosystems, we must adhere to natural restoration as the mainstay, supplemented by artificial intervention, and restore them scientifically and rationally.
Ulanqab is rich in scenic and natural resources. In recent years, it has taken advantage of its comparative advantages in green power, climate, and location to achieve positive results in the development of the green computing industry. Xi Jinping went to the Chahar High-tech Development Zone and learned about the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's progress in promoting the construction of hub nodes of the "Eastern Digital and Western Calculation" project and the development of the green computing industry in the exhibition hall. He pointed out that implementing the "Eastern Counting and Western Counting" project and building a national integrated computing power network is an important deployment of the Party Central Committee. It is necessary to strengthen scientific planning, element support, and safety guarantees to ensure that completed projects operate efficiently and follow-up project construction is completed as scheduled. It is necessary to actively extend the industrial chain, promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and continuously transform computing power advantages into development advantages.
Subsequently, Xi Jinping had cordial exchanges with relevant computing power center project leaders, technical personnel, and staff of Chahar High-tech Zone who were present at the scene. He emphasized that the computing power network is one of the "six networks" planned and constructed by the country, and the computing power industry is in an accelerated development stage with broad prospects. I hope that everyone will conscientiously implement the requirements of efficiency, greenness, and safety, focus on "computing power synergy" and "computing water synergy", do a good job in the construction and operation of the computing power center project, actively promote the development of the green computing power industry, and make more contributions to promoting the construction of Digital China and promoting the development of new quality productivity. Xi Jinping requires the high-tech zone to strengthen party leadership and party building, optimize various public services and factor guarantees, and create a good environment for enterprises and various types of talents to start their own businesses.
Xi Jinping also inspected the display of local characteristic agricultural and animal husbandry products, learned in detail about the main varieties and quality characteristics, and encouraged the local area to strengthen the connection between production and marketing to help farmers and herdsmen increase their income and become rich.
During the inspection, Xi Jinping emphasized that my country has a vast territory and obvious differences in resource endowments between east, west, south, and north. On the new journey, all regions must follow the strategic decisions and plans of the Party Central Committee, establish and practice a correct view of political performance, fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, keep up with the trend of the times, seize development opportunities, base on their own conditions, give full play to their comparative advantages, and promote high-quality development according to local conditions.
He Lifeng and responsible comrades from relevant departments of the central and state agencies accompanied the inspection.
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