From abandoned mines to Chongqing's "Little Jiuzhai", what has Causeway Mountain experienced?

This year's National Day holiday, Chongqing Causeway Mountain Mine Park has become a new "network red card", strength circle powder tourists around. A number of videos titled "National Day card Chongqing 'small Jiuzhai'" and "Yubei Tonglu Mountain Mine Park Tourism Guide" have received many likes on platforms such as XiaoHongshu and Douyin, and some netizens have commented that "if it is not the towering cliff, it is difficult to imagine that this was an abandoned mine a few years ago."

However, the Gongluo Mountain Mine Park in Chongqing, which has been labeled as a "flow", has ambitions far beyond being an "Internet celebrity".

From October 10 to 11, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a landscape project promotion meeting in Beijing, at which the first 15 outstanding typical cases of landscape engineering were announced, and the ecological restoration project of Tongluo Mountain Mining Area in Yubei District of Chongqing was listed. Earlier, in the fifteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) Ecological Civilization Forum "Ecological protection and Restoration based on natural solutions" theme forum, the project was selected in the "China's Typical Case collection of ecological restoration".

The "ecological burden" in the past has now become "green wealth", how does Chongqing do a good job of "managing mountains and rivers, demonstrating mountains and dew", create a good and popular ecological products, continue to release ecological dividends, and actively explore ways to realize the value of ecological products?

Improve the ecological "green content", abandoned mines beautiful butterfly change

Great mountains and great rivers are born in Chongqing. From the perspective of natural genes, Chongqing's "mountain content" is surprisingly high, accounting for 76%, surrounded by mountains and rivers, surrounded by rivers and gorges, various ecological elements are complete, and the basis of biodiversity is unique.

Viewed from a high altitude, Chongqing's land surface, 23 mountains from northeast to southwest, almost parallel, like the strings of the earth. Open the map, "The city is on a hill, and the city is in the mountains." Among them, Jinyun Mountain, Zhongliang Mountain, Causeway Mountain and Mingyue Mountain run through the central city to the north and south, and integrate with the city, known as "the backbone of the mountain city".

In addition, Chongqing is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the heart of the Three Gorges Reservoir area, which is the last pass of the ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. As one of the "four Mountains", Causeway Mountain is an important ecological conservation area and ecological barrier, which plays an important role in the water ecological environment security of the Yangtze River.

It is understood that from 2010 to 2012, Chongqing fully closed the quarries in the "four mountains" area, and 41 abandoned mines were left behind in the Causeway Mountain mine area, forming a 14.87 square kilometers impact area, with prominent safety hazards and serious ecological degradation.

At the end of 2018, Chongqing was approved to carry out the national pilot project of ecological protection and restoration of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasses in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River Ecological Barrier (Chongqing section) in the confluence area of the Yangtze River and Jialing River. Through the systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasslands, the past single management model of "treating the pain at the top and treating the pain at the foot" has been changed, and the overall protection, systematic restoration, and comprehensive management of the ecosystem in the central urban area have been carried out, accelerating the restoration and upgrading of the ecological barrier function of the Yangtze River in the region.

Tongluo Mountain in Yubei was once the largest limestone mining area in the central city of Chongqing. Zeng Dejian, who was secretary of the Party General Branch of Shibi Village in Shichuan Town, Yubei District, told reporters that since he can remember, the village has opened a small stone farm, and there are more than 100 homes at the peak, and about 7,000 large vehicles transport stones every day. The mountains are devastated, the dust is everywhere, and the trees and crops cannot survive.

From a pit riddled with holes to a deep pool of blue water, like a string of pearls embedded in the mountains, what has happened to Causeway Hill?

-- Adhering to planning and guidance. In July 2019, Chongqing issued the implementation plan for the protection and improvement of the "four mountains" in the central urban area. The ecological restoration project of the Causeway Mountain mining area is closely linked to the overall positioning of "urban green lung and citizen garden" proposed by the plan, making full use of mining relics, adhering to the guidance of multi-field planning, and promoting the coordination and synchronization of the ecological restoration of the Causeway Mountain mine and the construction of the mine park. On the one hand, the Conceptual Plan for Ecological Protection and Restoration Project of Causeway Mountain Mountains, Forests, fields, lakes and Grasslands sorted out the problems of low water conservation capacity, low product supply capacity, reduced biodiversity, and low quality of rural landscape in Causeway Mountain, and proposed four strategies of "comprehensive protection, natural restoration, comprehensive ecosystem design, and collaborative symbiotic design". We will designate conservation, restoration and utilization zones, and promote integrated protection and management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasslands. On the other hand, the tourism master plan of Causeway Mountain Mine Park establishes the overall spatial structure of "One belt, three districts and three centers" centered on the mining cultural tourism and sightseeing belt. In addition, the scientific preparation of village planning. By adjusting and optimizing the spatial layout of the territory through ecological restoration, ecological restoration will be combined with the subsequent tourism development of Causeway Mountain to form a pattern of mutual promotion of ecological restoration and industrial development.