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Building a Green Great Wall on the Northern Frontier of the Motherland

Beijing, March 10 (Reported by special correspondents Jin Xuanmei and Yang Jing) - "President Xi Jinping pointed out that building Inner Mongolia into an important ecological security barrier in the north of China is a strategic position based on the overall national development, and it is also a major responsibility that Inner Mongolia must consciously undertake," said Wang Wangsheng, an NPC deputy and Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Department of Ecology and Environment of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at the plenary meeting of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region delegation on March 6. Wang stated that it is necessary to build a more solid green Great Wall in the northern frontier of the motherland and demonstrate new achievements in the construction of "two barriers," "two bases," and "one bridgehead."

　　This year's government work report proposes to deeply implement the concept that green mountains and clear waters are invaluable assets. Measures include promoting carbon reduction, pollution reduction, afforestation, and economic growth in coordination, to build a beautiful China where humans and nature coexist harmoniously.

　　Inner Mongolia is one of the provinces with China's most concentrated and severe desertification and desertified land. The Linhe-Ejina section of the Linhe-Hami Railway, located in the western part of Inner Mongolia, stretches for 759.1 kilometers, with more than 400 kilometers passing through deserts and Gobi areas, serving as a major artery for material transportation in northern China. Since the opening of this line more than ten years ago, railway sand control personnel have planted 280,000 shrubs and artificially afforested 151 hectares. The length of railway sections affected by desertification has been reduced from 108 kilometers in the early days of operation to 4.5 kilometers, effectively curbing the deterioration of desertification and improving the ecological environment along the railway.

　　As President Xi Jinping said, "If we do not fail Nature, Nature shall never fail us." Nowadays, traveling on the Linhe-Ceke section of the Linhe-Hami Railway, one can see greenery along the route.

　　Green is the foundation of high-quality development, and new quality productive forces are green productivity. "It is necessary to make the development of new quality productive forces a key focus and solidly promote high-quality development, to make contributions to China's modernization," said Zhuang He, an NPC deputy and Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of CR-Huhhot, adding that they will deeply study and implement the guiding principles from the National Two Sessions, better fulfilling railway functions, according to plans and coordination of the Party Group of CR and the Party Committee and Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions.