Chapter 1534 Afforestation for Environmental Protection
From the beginning of Baotou, Yang Yuanzhao has not stopped the transformation of the environment, this is this era many countries are not aware of the destruction of the environment by industrialization, many people know that in history, just after the industrial revolution in London, England, the reason why the title of fog capital was obtained, is because of heavy industrial pollution, in the face of interests and the environment, the whole society and the country, are not aware. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
After destruction, Europe has almost gone through this path, and even in the time of war, some environmental concepts that have just emerged have also been put aside, there is no way, when the country is destroyed, you have a good environment, what is the effect.
To put it bluntly, the industry of this era has not yet developed to a very high level, and the harm to the environment has not been so profound, although the environment has caused a bad impact in the UK, the increase in respiratory emergencies, lung diseases, etc., the increase in malformed children and unnatural abortions, these are all problems, but the imperfection of medical security, coupled with the fact that medicine has not entered a higher state, has made many countries ignore this.
Yang Yuanzhao from later generations, very well aware of the important role of the environment, China is to stand on the highest peak in the world, not to leave a country full of pollution and devastation, so from the very beginning of the very attached great importance to the northwest, and the whole of China, the most fragile place in the natural environment, very natural, the efforts to make more, plus the help of the all-in-one machine and Yang Yuanzhao, China from the beginning, is the world's most efficient industrial country, some fist products are super competitive, It's normal to spend more energy on environmental protection.
Even so, Yang Yuanzhao in the initial implementation of environmental protection, but also rely on huge attraction to do, for example, the members of the Baotou Chamber of Commerce, must support how many acres of forest planting, and for example, to get a technology factory, must carry out environmental governance, to ensure the normal emission of emissions.
These at the beginning, let everyone very puzzled, because this will affect the rate of return on funds, Yang Yuanzhao with irreplaceable advantage products, there is a higher rate of return than imagined, and finally forcibly implemented this, so many years have passed, from the Baotou Chamber of Commerce, the development of the current national industry, has been using this, although there are a few waves, but under the premise of mandatory legislation, it was quickly quelled.
In order to control the Loess Plateau and sandstorms, Yang Yuanzhao promoted the large-scale Three-North Shelterbelt, mainly to protect the wind-blown sand from Siberia, the Loess Plateau and the Mongolian Plateau. This has been a dispute in later generations.
Now from China all the way to the Arctic Ocean, all of them are included in China's system, even if some territories are obtained later, it is enough to make adjustments and changes, after all, relatively speaking, that is, Mongolia's environment is a little worse, as early as 1911 belonged to China, as for Siberia, the natural conditions are far better than the Mongolian Plateau and the Loess Plateau, a simple adjustment, is enough to make the Loess Plateau and the surrounding environment better.
In just five years, just around the Loess Plateau, China's forest area is increasing at a rate of 5 million hectares per year, around Baotou, the entire Loess Plateau, a total of 250,000 square kilometers of afforestation, this is an astonishing number, you know, the entire Loess Plateau is only 640,000 square kilometers, aside from the water system, not suitable for afforestation, and farmland that must be preserved, this is already the limit.
More trees, increase soil and water conservation, will also reduce the transpiration rate per unit area, directly from the ground, and directly from the green plants in the transpiration effect is different, equivalent to a certain extent, increase the amount of water in the region, Mongolia, Shanxi, and even more northwest regions, the lack of water resources, coupled with the drier, has been the environment is relatively thin, a large number, purposeful afforestation, the comprehensive effect on the environment is huge, the earliest has grown lush, the earliest almost has a large DBH, In just five years, soil erosion on the Loess Plateau has been reduced by more than 85 percent, and the Yellow River has begun to clear under a certain bundle of sand.
The Yellow River has become clear for thousands of years, which represents the emergence of the sage, but this is only the result of efforts to change the environment, planting trees is a more effective way to change the environment, and even to a certain extent, a short period of time can change the regional geological environment, and only planting trees, but the reason why the Loess Plateau has become like this, but this is only a symptomatic measure, not a root cause of the measure, in order to change the status quo once and for all, we must increase the amount of water per unit area, which is the best solution.
The deterioration of the environment, the human factor is only one aspect, as long as there is no large-scale destructive logging, or large-scale geological disasters, it is unlikely to affect much, at most human activities affect the balance of animals and plants, so that forest resources are greatly reduced, the singleness and soil erosion brought by land reclamation and farming are a big reason for environmental degradation, but the natural environment is equally important, water shortage is another aspect of environmental deterioration in northern China, after the establishment of Northwest China, a large number of construction lags behind, and begins to deindustrialize, but large-scale cities, The gradual increase in water for living and production has tried many ways to solve the problem, and even in the large-scale afforestation, the root irrigation method has been popularized, and the water volume of the Yellow River has begun to decline, which is quite unfavorable for reasonable development.
Water is the source of life, if you want to completely change the geological environment of a region, increase water for this area, is an immediate way, not only near Baotou water shortage, the whole of western China, Inner and outer Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, these areas without exception water shortage, a high degree of industrialization of China, in a certain sense, than the later generations more water shortage.
Replenishing the water source in the northwest is what Yang Yuanzhao has been promoting, and what he can think of is the south-to-north water diversion, which was a huge project that was only started in the 21st century in later generations, which is a bit early for this era, and besides, in a real sense, the amount of water in the south cannot be said to be absolutely abundant, and the south-to-north water diversion solution is only a problem of urban water and some industrial water, which cannot play a role in supplementing underground water sources and changing the regional water environment.
In the 21st century, China can only choose the domestic south-to-north water diversion, but also proposed the north-south water diversion, the comprehensive application of water resources in the region, but because of various reasons, it is not over, but in this era, it is different, China can choose more, the most immediate effect, is the north-south water diversion, the total amount of the Yangtze River basin a year, less than 1000 cubic kilometers, this water volume is already China's largest, the world's largest river, but his total water is less than 20 of Lake Baikal, In other words, the amount of water pumped from Lake Baikal is enough for 20 years in a row.
Every year, 336 rivers are injected into Lake Baikal, but only one river flows out of the Arctic Ocean, so since 2500, the water volume of Lake Baikal has been increasing, if the water flow of the Arctic Ocean is reduced, and the water from the north is diverted to the south, there is not as much as a Yangtze River, 100 cubic kilometers of water, that is, one-tenth of the total water volume of the Yangtze River, it is enough to change the entire western environment, these 100 cubic kilometers are equivalent to one part of Baikal Lake, not to mention the increase in the amount of water in Lake Baikal, the total amount of Baikal now, enough to last 200 years, and this amount of water hardly has to be considered depletion.
After the completion of the middle route, the total amount of water transferred was only 13 billion cubic meters, which is only 13 cubic kilometers, which is far worse than Lake Baikal.
Even if there is no water from the north in the future, a large number of ditches are needed, because of the problem of high latitude sun conditions, most of the ditches are closed, and the irrigation does not use the spray type, but more consideration is given to root irrigation, especially in a large number of grassland and shelterbelt areas, with the least water source, to ensure the growth of enough trees, reduce the loss caused by transpiration.
At the beginning, the labor from Europe, without a skill, basically the vast majority, were placed on the construction site of the north-south water diversion and the northern shelterbelt planting, and a large number of mechanical and skilled workers were supported in the follow-up, so that the overall progress was accelerated, Rao is so, from 1911 to September 1916, it took more than 5 years to complete this great project that shocked the world, and the maximum investment was 32 million manpower, and the excavation of various earthworks was enough to calculate with trillions, which was the largest project to complete.
The north-south water diversion project was finally completed, starting from Lake Baikal, through the irrigation station, raised to the Mongolian Plateau, and then with the help of the original waterway, some relatively narrow rivers were excavated, and a large number of canals were dug, and even not just a water diversion river, this is a huge irrigation project throughout the entire northwest of China, from the water-scarce Mongolian Plateau, all the way to Xinjiang, throughout the entire central China, once completed, the problem of water shortage in the northwest will be directly changed. At least 1 million square kilometers of forests, will no longer need artificial irrigation, tree species will also be from the original drought-resistant single tree species, gradually transformed into comprehensive temperate forests, such a variety of structures of natural forests, for pests and diseases, and even natural disasters in the area, far above the fast-growing forests and shelterbelts, to a certain extent, have a certain self-growth, self-healing effect, this is the real forest resources that change the environment for a long time and will not be degraded due to insufficient human care. It has a very strong effect on the protection of the environment. (To be continued.) )