Yinchuan: Beauty Enhanced by Water, Spring Scenery Like a Painting

Thanks to the irrigation of the Yellow River Canal, there are crisscrossing channels and developed water system in Yinchuan, rich wetland resources and a lot of lakes and marshes. Since ancient times, it has enjoyed the reputation of 'Upper Yellow River' and 'Seventy-Two Linked Lakes'. The city currently has 531 hectares of lake and wetland area, accounting for 10% of the built-up area, nearly 200 lakes and wetlands, 128 lakes with an area of 1232 hectares. Currently, it has 3 national-level water scenic areas of 'Dano River', 'Duck Pond', 'Treasure Lake', 'Vibrant Green Lake' and 'Crane Spring Lake', 5 national-level wetland parks, and in 2018, it was awarded the title of 'International Wetland City' for the first time globally.

Yinchuan, which thrives by lakes, is also working hard to maintain a corner of the river and lake, accelerating the pace of water ecological civilization construction, making the 'Upper Yellow River' card even brighter.

Abundant wetland resources in Yinchuan. Photo by Su Yong.

Connecting the waterway improves the city's quality.

Standing on the balcony on the 27th floor, citizen Dou Han looked into the distance and saw the 'Seven Sisters Lakes' in full view. He frankly said that when he bought the house on the south side, a major reason was to see the surrounding natural environment. 'I can see lake views at home, which feels great.'

The 'Seven Sisters Lakes' he saw came from the south waterway of Yinchuan, after the expansion and dredging of rivers and lakes, it became a branch of the Dano River, and the ecological environment here has been greatly improved.

The initial effect of connecting the southern waterway is emerging. Last year, our city continued to improve and implement the connection of river and lake waterway, accelerate the implementation of the new period people's livelihood water affairs construction.

'The construction of the Yinchuan-Xinqingguan Expressway special line section waterway excavation and water affairs accompanying engineering started in October 2018, with a waterway length of 7.5 kilometers, 15 buildings and 7 irrigation ditches, 'Yinchuan City Water Affairs Bureau' relevant officials introduced that the western waterway of Yinchuan-Xinqingguan Expressway special line section waterway excavation and water affairs accompanying engineering has come to an end, waiting for the spring flowers to bloom, the two sides will be greened, the entire Yinchuan West River waterway will be a combination of landscape beautification, urban drainage and ecological, achieving the harmonious coexistence of urban development and ecological environment, greatly improving the quality of the city.

Based on this, our city has connected waterways in the northwest region for about 30 kilometers, built a set of Yinchuan-Xinqingguan Expressway special line section waterway, integrating flood control, drainage, ecology, landscape, leisure and industry aggregation, creating a green ecological corridor that runs north and south.

Breaking through the waterway, connecting lakes, in 2019, our city completed the restoration and renovation of the wetland area of Luo Jiahu Lake and the south side of the Yinchuan section of the G2 highway, with the connection and renovation of the sun island waterway and the renovation of the canal lake and Luo Jiahu Lake, excavation and renovation of the G2 highway south waterway, increasing the water area by 153 mu, continuously improving the urban image.

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The 'Jiangzhou Lake' located in the of Liang, Yinchuan, the lake surface is calm, there are often birds foraging and resting around, and the surrounding roads are paved with stones, warning signs prohibiting fishing. But it wasn't like this before. It is known that the Yan Lake is naturally formed, with an initial area of about 600 mu. Since 2000, the surrounding people filled in lakes and built fields illegally, built houses and barns, causing the Yan Lake wetland area to reduce to 99.9 mu and the ecological environment was severely damaged.

Regarding this, the Yinchuan City People's Procuratorate, through issuing a pre-trial prosecution suggestion, urged the Yinchuan District Natural Resources Bureau to start the wetland restoration work, formulated the 'Yinchuan District Wetland Protection and Restoration Work System Plan', from the institutional level established the Yinchuan District wetland long-term protection system. Currently, 109 illegally built houses, 9 barns and 3 sheep pens were dismantled, 18585 square meters of illegal construction was cleared and dismantled, 24300 cubic meters of construction waste was collected and dismantled. According to the land utilization plan, the boundary of Yan Lake was redrawn, and a 2100-meter ring road was built around the lake. The lake's ecological environment has been gradually restored.

Last year, the Yinchuan City Water Affairs Bureau and the City Procuratorate built an 'administrative enforcement + prosecution supervision' platform, jointly carried out the 'hand in hand to clear the four evils, protect the mother river' special action, checked 85 river and lake 'four evils' issues, through talks, notifications, marking supervision, joint enforcement, concentrated and other ways to eliminate 83 items, 66 cases were filed, 66 pre-trial prosecution suggestions were issued. The procuratorate carried out the special activity and filed 66 cases, issued 66 pre-trial prosecution suggestions.

River long-term system promoted the effectiveness of patrol. In Yinchuan, there are 794 river long-term, our city established a four-level river long-term work system, covered all rivers and lakes in the city with river long-term system, realized the all-encompassing coverage of river long-term system, last year the four-level river long-term patrolled 32906 times, uploaded 185 patrol issues and 37 complaint issues, 90% completion rate, effectively solved the hot issues reflected by the masses.

The implementation of the river long-term system promoted the effectiveness of patrol. In Yinchuan, there are 794 river long-term. Our city established a four-level river long-term work system, covered all rivers and lakes in the city with river long-term system, realized the all-encompassing coverage of river long-term system, last year the four-level river long-term patrolled 32906 times, uploaded 185 patrol issues and 37 complaint issues, 90% completion rate, effectively solved the hot issues reflected by the masses.

The implementation of the river long-term system promoted the effectiveness of patrol. In Yinchuan, there are 794 river long-term. Our city established a four-level river long-term work system, covered all rivers and lakes in the city with river long-term system, realized the all-encompassing coverage of river long-term system, last year the four-level river long-term patrolled 32906 times, uploaded 185 patrol issues and 37 complaint issues, 90% completion rate, effectively solved the hot issues reflected by the masses.

The implementation of the river long-term system promoted the effectiveness of patrol. In Yinchuan, there are 794 river long-term. Our city established a four-level river long-term work system, covered all rivers and lakes in the city with river long-term system, realized the all-encompassing coverage of river long-term system, last year the four-level river long-term patrolled 32906 times, uploaded 185 patrol issues and 37 complaint issues, 90% completion rate, effectively solved the hot issues reflected by the masses.

The implementation of the river long-term system promoted the effectiveness of patrol. In Yinchuan, there are 794 river long-term. Our city established a four-level river long-term work system, covered all rivers and lakes in the city with river long-term system, realized the all-encompassing coverage of river long-term system, last year the four-level river long-term patrolled 32906 times, uploaded 185 patrol issues and 37 complaint issues, 90% completion rate, effectively solved the hot issues reflected by the masses.

The implementation of the river long-term system promoted the effectiveness of patrol. In Yinchuan, there are 794 river long-term. Our city established a four-level river long-term work system, covered all rivers and lakes in the city with river long-term system, realized the all-encompassing coverage of river long-term system, last year the four-level river long-term patrolled 32906 times, uploaded 185 patrol issues and 37 complaint issues, 90% completion rate, effectively solved the hot issues reflected by the masses.

The implementation of the river long-term system promoted the effectiveness of patrol. In Yinchuan, there are 794 river long-term. Our city established a four-level river long-term work system, covered all rivers and lakes in the city with river long-term system, realized the all-encompassing coverage of river long-term system, last year the four-level river long-term patrolled 32906 times, uploaded 185 patrol issues and 37 complaint issues, 90% completion rate, effectively solved the hot issues reflected by the masses.

The implementation of the river long-term system promoted the effectiveness of patrol. In Yinchuan, there are 794 river long-term. Our city established a four-level river long-term work system, covered all rivers and lakes in the city with river long-term system, realized the all-encompassing coverage of river long-term system, last year the four-level river long-term patrolled 32906 times, uploaded 185 patrol issues and 37 complaint issues, 90% completion rate, effectively solved the hot issues reflected by the masses.

The implementation of the river long-term system promoted the effectiveness of patrol. In Yinchuan, there are 794 river long-term. Our city established a four-level river long-term work system, covered all rivers and lakes in the city with river long-term system, realized the all-encompassing coverage of river long-term system, last year the four-level river long-term patrolled 32906 times, uploaded 185 patrol issues and 37 complaint issues, 90% completion rate, effectively solved the hot issues reflected by the masses.