Born of water, thriving by water, Nanjing is deeply marked by the Yangtze River. With a total length of 97 kilometers, natural shoreline of [missing number] kilometers, and planned port cargo shoreline of [missing number] kilometers. Jointly protecting the river, not engaging in large-scale development. In recent years, Nanjing has placed the protection and restoration of the Yangtze River ecological environment in a paramount position, and the ecological environment protection of the Yangtze River Nanjing section has undergone transformative changes. Ecology and economy advance together. Based on the development strategy of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Nanjing takes transportation as a breakthrough, resolutely tackles pollution, builds a regional shipping logistics center, creates a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation system, lights a "green light" for economic development, assists the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and radiates new vitality. Recently, the Longtan Container Terminal is bustling with activity, with electric-driven gantry cranes hoisting containers, and all 10 berths along the shore equipped with shore power devices, making it Nanjing's first five-star green ecological port. Projects such as "oil-to-electric" conversion for yard cranes, energy feedback for yard cranes, automatic crossing and sliding contact line transformation for yard cranes, and construction of LNG (liquefied natural gas) filling stations have been implemented here. Generally, a ship consumes about 20 liters of oil per hour, while using shore power requires about 20 kilowatt-hours, greatly reducing emissions such as exhaust gas from fuel combustion. Currently, Nanjing has a total of 7 such star-rated green ecological ports, ranking first in the province. It is worth mentioning that the Nanjing Municipal Transportation Law Enforcement Department has taken the lead in the province in implementing "oil-to-electric" conversion for law enforcement vessels and cargo ships. Wang Chengjiang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Nanjing Municipal Transportation Bureau, introduced that Nanjing has promoted the construction and upgrading of shore power facilities across the entire port, with a total of 152 shore power facilities completed, now covering all general cargo terminals. From January to October this year, shore power consumption reached over 2.7 million kilowatt-hours, 8.5 times that of the same period last year. In the battle to tackle transportation pollution, Nanjing has achieved full coverage of the joint manifest supervision system, promoting the entire chain and closed-loop management of ship water pollutants from generation, reception, transfer to disposal. At the same time, port enterprises have been urged to standardize the installation of over 400 sets of various ship pollutant reception facilities, achieving the goal of "building all that should be built" for reception facilities for ship garbage and ship domestic sewage. The Yangtze River ship washing station is also operating stably. On the river, the treatment of ship pollution is being deepened, the use of shore power at ports is being continuously promoted, and the amount of "pollution" discharged by ports is decreasing. On the shore, productive port areas and terminals are transforming into living puzzles integrated into the city, and residents' happiness index is continuously improving. In the past, the Pukou Port Area mainly handled general cargo and coal business. To return the river to the people and coexist with the river, Nanjing has promoted the gradual relocation and transfer of cargo terminals in the old port areas along the main stream between the original Second and Third Yangtze River Bridges, including the Pukou Port Area, making way for the construction of the Nanjing Riverside Scenic Belt. On November 11, participants of the seventh meeting of the Nanjing Leading Group for Promoting the Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt visited the urban renewal project of the Pukou Railway Station area by the river and couldn't help but admire, "We have seen the most beautiful shoreline and the nearest future." "This year, I've seen finless porpoises several times, which is not easy." Yang Jinlong, who had fished for decades, said with deep feeling. Now, he has taken down his fishing nets and joined the Nanjing Yangtze River Finless Porpoise Protection Team, transforming from a "fisherman" to a "porpoise protector." Behind them, public security, fishery administration, transportation and other departments are carrying out joint law enforcement actions to jointly do a good job in the fishing ban in the Yangtze River basin. In making ecological achievements, Nanjing has made great efforts. In recent years, in accordance with the requirements of the Yangtze River protection, Nanjing has legally cleared and banned 27 illegal docks along the river, and returned 2.5 million square meters of riverbank shoreline. In making economic achievements, Nanjing has adopted new thinking. With the removal of port areas and terminals, how to fill the gaps in cargo transportation and economy? Old docks are being given new tricks. After the completion and opening of the Nanjing Port-dedicated highway expressway, continuous cargo trucks are pulling the enterprises and docks of Longtan New City into close "communication." This year, the completion of the railway dedicated line project for the Longtan Port Area of Nanjing Port has truly achieved seamless connection between railway and waterway. The rapid "external roads" of the port area have unblocked bottlenecks. As one of the first batch of national port-type (production service-oriented) logistics hubs, the advantages of public-water intermodal and rail-water intermodal transport at the Longtan Logistics Hub will continue to be amplified. Relying on the international and domestic container waterway route network, as well as connecting to the central and western railway corridors and linking China-Europe and China-Central Asia freight trains, it is advancing towards building an opening-up pattern that is bidirectional between east and west and coordinated between land and sea. Not only Longtan, but Nanjing has also completed the capacity expansion and renovation of the port-dedicated railway in the Xiba Port Area. Relying on the deep-water channel of the Yangtze River, it has built three major public-rail-water intermodal transport hubs in Longtan, Xiba, and Xinshengwei, establishing its position as the largest public-rail-water intermodal transport hub port along the Yangtze River. Relying on multimodal transport facilities such as port-dedicated railways and port-dedicated highways, it expands the service functions of multimodal transport, enhances the intensive development level of freight hubs and the competitiveness of shipping logistics. The airport industry and logistics park projects around Lukou Airport continue to improve, building a national regional aviation cargo and express delivery center, cross-border e-commerce trading center, and land-air and public-rail intermodal transport center. Upgrading internally and expanding externally. It has been three years since the second phase of the 12.5-meter deep-water channel project below Nanjing on the Yangtze River passed the completion acceptance and began trial operation. As the "terminal station" of the 12.5-meter deep-water channel below Nanjing on the Yangtze River, from January to October this year, the operating revenue of the Xinshengwei Branch of Nanjing Port reached 380 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%. The efficiency of the waterway has been greatly improved, and the added value is exciting. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Nanjing will accelerate the construction of the public-rail-water intermodal transport system, strive for an average annual growth rate of container multimodal transport volume of over 10%, and truly let the golden waterway yield golden benefits. Across the mountain is not far, across the water is not close. In the past, residents living north of the river said "going to Nanjing" when they went to the city center, and the big river created a sense of estrangement. Now, coming to the south of the river to visit Xinjiekou and going to the north of the river to experience rural homestays has become a new lifestyle. Nanjing is accelerating the construction of river-crossing passages, with the number built in five years equal to the sum of the previous ten years. Focusing on the seamless connection between the south and north of the river, and between the main city and new towns, Nanjing will increase the layout of river-crossing passages, accelerate the construction of rail transit, improve the expressway network, achieve fast regional connectivity, and build a higher-level "accessible city." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, river-crossing passages such as Yanlu Road, Jianning West Road, and Xianxin Road will be completed, and construction will start on river-crossing passages such as Ningyi Yang, Shangyuanmen, and Jinwen Road. By 2025, there will be 18 river-crossing passages with 21 lines built or under construction, basically meeting the development needs of cross-river urban clusters. Looking from a higher perspective. In February this year, the "Nanjing Metropolitan Area Development Plan" was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, becoming the first metropolitan area plan approved at the national level. According to the plan, the Nanjing metropolitan area will be built into an important resource allocation center for the Yangtze River Economic Belt. The first step in building the metropolitan area is transportation. At the beginning of this year, among the key urban construction projects announced by Nanjing, there were three metropolitan area intercity rail lines: Ningyang, Ningma, and Ningchu. Last month, the Ningju intercity line (Nanjing S6 line) began trial running and is expected to be put into operation within the year. Taking the construction of the "Nanjing metropolitan area on rails" as a breakthrough, Nanjing will build an interconnected and convenient rail transit system for the metropolitan area, promote the "multi-network integration" of trunk railways, intercity railways, municipal (suburban) railways, and urban rail transit, and advance the "eastward expansion" and "westward integration" of the Nanjing metropolitan area. By 2025, the new mileage of rail transit will exceed [missing number] kilometers (including trams), of which the operating mileage of metropolitan intercity lines will be about 230 kilometers, forming a 1-hour convenient metropolitan area. Thriving by water. Nanjing, aiming to build an international comprehensive transportation hub city, will better promote regional integrated development, strengthen the regional shipping logistics center, build a sea-river combined transport port hub, increase the proportion of 50,000-ton deep-water berths, and by 2025, the cargo throughput capacity of riverside docks will reach 255 million tons. Key efforts will be made to achieve new breakthroughs in near-sea routes, strive to make Nanjing Port the originating port for near-sea routes and domestic trunk routes, expand Nanjing's characteristic automobile ro-ro transport, and strive for the import and export port for complete vehicles. (Hu Mingfeng) On May 9, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government jointly carried out the 2021 Yangtze River finless porpoise protection and science popularization themed activity in Zhuhai. Yu Kangzhen, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Ye Zhenqin, member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, attended the activity. In the past few years, in order to promote the ten-year fishing ban work, Ma Yi, Director of the Yangtze River Basin Fishery Administration and Supervision Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, has been busy along the Yangtze River for a long time. This year marks the 5th anniversary of the symposium on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Over the past five years, from solving the problem of "chemical industry encircling the river" to implementing the "ten-year fishing ban" on the Yangtze River, from shoreline restoration to building a green ecological corridor, the Yangtze River Economic Belt has not only improved its environment but also achieved higher quality economic and social development, and people's lives have become happier.
