According to the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the city has been earnestly implementing ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin as core work in recent years, and major tasks have been advanced steadily and effectively.

Ecological protection and restoration are constantly being strengthened. Solidly implementing soil and water conservation projects, our city has brought soil erosion on 2,598 square kilometers of land under control and built a 240-kilometer-long composite ecological corridor along the Yellow River, a benchmark for the entire province. Relying on projects such as the landscape project in the Luo River Basin in the eastern section of the Qinling Mountains, a total of 124,500 mu of mines have been restored.

Ecological environmental quality continues to improve. Sanmenxia has taken firm actions against pollution to win the battles for blue skies, clean water, and healthy soil, with environmental quality among the best in the province. Water quality of all national and provincial monitoring sections of the Yellow River Basin has met or exceeded the Class III water body quality standard, with the proportion of excellent water body reaching 100%.

The ability to better use water resources has been continuously improved. Three new reservoirs have been built, 11 medium and large-scale supporting irrigation zones have been constructed or upgraded, and over 360,000-mu irrigation areas have been improved or restored. Four counties (cities and districts) have completed the construction of a county-level water-saving society. The utilization rate of recycled water in the central urban area has reached 31%.

The safety of the Yellow River safeguards the peace and security of the country and the people. The city secured 175 million yuan of central government funding to build 14.77 kilometers of control and guidance and anti-wave projects, effectively halting severe bank collapses. It has successfully achieved the flood control targets of “one guarantee and five no-occurrences”.

The construction of a modern industrial system has been accelerated. The number of innovation platforms at or above the municipal level has increased from 319 in 2019 to 763. The city has made concerted efforts in developing 12 key industrial chains and “8+6” industrial clusters, aiming to build a nationally influential city of materials and high-end manufacturing. The “three major transformation” plan has been made and industrial enterprises have made necessary upgrades accordingly. Relying on five national and seven provincial level resource-saving and circular economy bases, the city has implemented 65 key “zero-waste city” projects with a total investment of 20 billion yuan, to form a zero-waste industrial chain with distinctive characteristics and complementary advantages.

The integrated development of urban and rural areas is accelerating. Our city has orderly promoted urban renewal and the construction of the lifeline system. It is expected that the urbanization rate of the city’s permanent population will reach 60.65%, maintaining 7th place in the province. We took the lead in launching the construction of the Rural Revitalization Demonstration Zone along the Yellow River in the province. Eight high-quality countryside tourism routes and nine 10,000-mu bases have been built.

Infrastructure construction has been upgraded. A total of 29 trunk road projects have been planned or under construction, covering about 586 kilometers. Thirteen source-grid-load-storage integrated power projects have been included in the provincial implementation plan, and the installed renewable energy capacity has exceeded 3.4 million kilowatts.

The development of cultural tourism and cultural creativity integrates. Focusing on the “1+3+4” cultural tourism project, the city has advanced and planned 70 projects with a total amount of about 22.067 billion yuan. The cultural tourism economy has become a key driver of high-quality development.

People’s well-being has been gradually improved. The city has created 38,100 new urban jobs, achieving 108.9% of its annual target. Elderly care facilities average 40.36 square meters per 100 households. The restructuring of Henan University of Applied Engineering has passed provincial evaluation and public review, and the relocation of the Sanmenxia Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s new campus has been completed. With 9.21 hospital beds per 1,000 people, the city ranks highest in Henan Province.