October 12-13, the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Wetland Management Division level inspector Cheng Liang rate of expert groups, to Changde City, Hunan Province, Linli County, to carry out Daoshuihe National Wetland Park pilot assessment and acceptance work.
In the morning, the expert group inspected the Hunan Daoshuihe National Wetland Park publicity display area, science and education center, the construction of Daoyuan management station, wetland school, Yinjia Creek beach restoration and three suspected illegal construction sites, and checked the rules and regulations, patrol ledgers and other internal data in the park management office. Li Linshan, deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Forestry Bureau, and Jiang Yingqun, deputy secretary of the Linli County Party Committee and county mayor, attended the pilot assessment and acceptance briefing.
The scope of Linli Daoshuihe National Wetland Park includes the Daoshuihe section between She Shiqiao Township Zhouhu Creek and Beifang Township Liufangzhou waters, beaches and some of its surrounding mountains and rice fields, with a total length of 44.26 kilometers and a total area of 953.3 hectares, including 918.9 hectares of wetlands, with a wetland rate of 96.39%. In December 2016, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration approved the pilot of Linli Daoshuihe National Wetland Park. Since its construction, it has completed 9 major 107 sub-projects of construction tasks, including protection project, restoration project, science popularization and education project, scientific research and monitoring project, rational utilization project, disaster prevention project, regional coordination and community building project, protection and management capacity building project, and foundation project. Through systematic wetland protection and restoration, the park ecosystem has become more stable and optimized, the overall water quality has been effectively improved, the wetland biological habitat has been significantly improved, and the species and number of plants and animals have increased significantly.
In the afternoon, an evaluation report meeting was held to assess the acceptance of the pilot work of Daoshuihe National Wetland Park in Linli, Hunan. The expert group unanimously agreed that the pilot construction of Linli Daoshuihe National Wetland Park has been effective, and at the same time put forward guiding opinions and suggestions on the wetland park ecosystem, protection and restoration, overall construction, management mode, scientific research and monitoring, etc.
Cheng Liang pointed out that the pilot construction of Linli Daoshuihe National Wetland Park work with heart and soul and real work, the effect is remarkable, is a very good example of practicing the important thought of ecological civilization of General Secretary Xi Jinping. Cheng Liang requested that the next step to further raise awareness, closely around the wetland park ecological protection, science and education, the masses share the three major functions, the initiative into the national, provincial and municipal major strategic deployment, increase protection and supervision, to protect the ecological environment of the wetland park and the surrounding areas, to create a boutique wetland park.