Recently, the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau issued a "notice on the results of the 2020 national wetland park pilot acceptance", Hunan Shimen xianyang Lake National Wetland Park on the list, the pilot construction successfully passed the national acceptance. xianyang Lake six-year pilot status "turned", officially among the ranks of the national wetland park, becoming the county's fifth national nature reserve, but also for the county's green rise and add a vivid stroke.
xianyang Lake National Wetland Park to artificial lake Zhaoshi reservoir, Dieshui downstream and the lake shore water conservation forest as the main body, a total area of 7946.6 hectares. The park has beautiful scenery and unique natural resources and landscape resources, such as wild wax plum group in Xiayu River, a line of sky in Wanren Cave and hot springs in Hot Water Creek, etc. It is an important ecological security barrier area of "one lake, three mountains and four waters" in Green Hunan. The park is rich in history and culture, with many historical and cultural relics such as the site of "Shimenren" in Yan'er Cave, the site of Shang Dynasty in Zhaoshi and the site of the ancient city of the Warring States in Weixin, which is one of the important birthplaces of human civilization in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Since the pilot construction of the national wetland park in December 2014, the county government of Shimen County has been practicing the concept of "green water and green mountains are the silver mountain of gold" and carrying out drastic efforts in accordance with the principles of "comprehensive protection, scientific restoration, reasonable utilization and sustainable development". Biodiversity protection and restoration work. The implementation of livestock and poultry scale farming out, net box fish farming out, sand farms closed, fishing platform fishing boat cleanup, illegal construction and demolition of special rectification action, the construction of a complete wetland science monitoring and education system, ecological protection and management capabilities continue to improve. After years of protection and construction, xianyang Lake ecosystem has become more and more stable and diverse, the wetland park plant species increased by 5 families and 22 species, and wildlife species increased by 4 families and 21 species. In particular, the monitoring data of the national-level protected animal, the Chinese Merganser, which is known as the "ecological test paper", wintering in xianyang Lake has been increasing year by year, which has become the best evidence of the effectiveness of the creation of xianyang Lake Wetland Park.