(A closer look at China) From a lake to a net, understand Xi Jinping’s trip to Ulanqab

On October 16, 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 Autonomous Region. A lake and a net have become the two key words for observing this trip.

On October 16, 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 Autonomous Region. This is Xi Jinping’s inspection in the Huangqihai Nature Reserve in Chahar Right Front Banner. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Yan

One lake is the Yellow Flag Sea, which was once on the verge of drying up, but now its water area is gradually recovering and expanding; one network is the national integrated computing power network that is accelerating its construction. From ecological environment protection to digital infrastructure construction, two different areas of investigation jointly point to one word - "green".

During this inspection, Xi Jinping emphasized that “green development is an integral part of high-quality development, and we must coordinate high-quality development and high-level protection” and “unswervingly follow the path of ecological priority and green development.”

A lake reflects the long-term plan for ecological protection.

Inner Mongolia has a vast territory and diverse ecosystem types, and is an important ecological security barrier in northern China. In the eyes of the outside world, Xi Jinping's visit to Inner Mongolia in the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" sent a clear signal that we will continue to protect the ecological environment and not relax.

The Huangqihai he inspected this time is an inland closed lake. Affected by factors such as human activities and drought, the lake surface has shrunk. In recent years, the local area has adopted measures such as dredging water systems, greening and restoration, and the management has achieved phased results. The sea surface area of ​​​​Huangqi has gradually recovered, and the population of migratory birds and other animals and plants continues to enrich. Currently, 168 species of birds have been discovered.

This time, Xi Jinping pointed out that the importance of wetland protection lies in maintaining the original ecology. "For degraded wetland ecosystems, we must adhere to natural restoration as the mainstay, supplemented by artificial intervention, and restore them scientifically and rationally."

Natural recovery cannot be achieved overnight, but requires long-term success. This principle is true for Huangqihai, and it is also true for the mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand across the country. Only by protecting various ecosystems can we lay a solid foundation for green development and leave sufficient space for long-term development.

On October 16, 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 Autonomous Region. This was Xi Jinping's cordial exchange with the relevant computing power center project leaders, technicians, and staff of the Chahar High-tech Zone during his inspection at the Chahar High-tech Development Zone. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Yan

A network is related to the green development of emerging industries.

Ulanqab is rich in scenic and natural resources. In recent years, Ulanqab has taken advantage of its comparative advantages in green power, climate, and location to achieve positive results in the development of its green computing industry. It is embarking on a development path of "Grassland Cloud Valley - City of Intelligent Computing - City of Tokens", and has also become an important window for the outside world to observe the accelerated layout of China's artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Looking across the country, some regions, like Ulanqab, have built computing power centers based on their own advantages. The rapid growth of computing power is affecting the power consumption landscape and also posing challenges to water supply and other issues. How the computing power industry can be more green is an important consideration for current development.

During this inspection, Xi Jinping pointed out that implementing the "Eastern Digital and Western Calculation" project and building a national integrated computing power network is an important deployment of the Party Central Committee. Regarding the development of the computing power industry, he clearly stated that it is necessary to "conscientiously implement the requirements of efficiency, greenness, and safety, and focus on 'computing power synergy' and 'computing water synergy'".

The overall planning and linkage between computing and electricity, computing and water demonstrates the direction of comprehensive policy implementation and is a vivid embodiment of the system concept. This idea will guide various regions to make good use of their green resource endowments and cultivate new industrial competitive advantages.

Whether it is the ecological restoration of Huangqihai or the green operation of the computing center, they all contain the pursuit of green development, which is essentially a useful exploration of high-quality development.

During his inspection, Xi Jinping specifically emphasized that China has a vast territory and obvious differences in resource endowments between east, west, south, and north. On the new journey, each region must "based on its own conditions, give full play to its comparative advantages, and promote high-quality development in accordance with local conditions."

In this journey, from a lake to a net, it is shown that green is not only the background color of development, but also the quality of China's development. (over)