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

-- Introducing supporting policies to attract private capital investment. According to the Implementation Plan of Chongqing Municipality to Encourage and Support Social Capital to participate in Ecological Protection and Restoration issued in April this year, Chongqing Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources, through establishing and improving the land incentive system, allows social investment entities that participate in centralized continuous ecological protection and restoration projects and achieve the expected goals to obtain a certain share of the construction land use right according to law and regulations. For tourism, health care, sports, facilities agriculture and other ecological industry development.

Yubei District actively implements the relevant regulations of the state and Chongqing Municipality to encourage and support social capital to participate in ecological protection and restoration, attracts social capital investment such as Chongqing Linkong Urban Agricultural Development and Construction Co., LTD., Chongqing Northern Bayu Homestay Management Co., LTD., and effectively promotes the restoration and upgrading of mine park, infrastructure construction, and ecological industry development.

"The pilot work of ecological product value realization mechanism is a long way to go, and we are taking the construction of Causeway Mountain Mine Park as a breakthrough to explore the value realization of ecological products." How will the pilot project break even? How to introduce social capital investment? How to undertake the industry? The goal is to revitalize local ecological and natural resources, build and share them, and bring benefits to both local finance and investment entities." Wang Bing said that at present, although the Causeway Mountain Mine Park has not yet become a real "Jinshan Silver Mountain", it has completed the most important steps, the government has built a nest to attract chicken, let social capital investment, and promote regional development. Next, we must continue to gnaw hard bones and strive to find a new path to realize the value of ecological products with characteristics, replicability and promotion, and accumulate experience and provide demonstration for the construction of ecological civilization in the city and even the whole country.

Boost development "gold content", the potential in the mountains and rivers

Ecology is closely related to economic and social development and people's well-being.

Good ecology is the foundation of the family, and high-quality ecological environment to support high-quality development will become a vivid footnote to Chongqing to promote ecological protection and green development.

One set of data reflects the changes in the lives of Causeway Hill residents:

Since the opening of the park in 2021, the Causeway Mountain Mine Park has launched tourism projects such as sightseeing small trains and mining cultural and creative products, receiving nearly 800,000 tourists in total, with a peak day of 26,000 people, and achieving a comprehensive tourism income of about 20 million yuan

Shibi Village, with the village stock economic cooperation Association as the main body, connects farmers to invest in the operation of scenic facilities, driving the collective economy to increase hundreds of thousands of yuan; Through the participation of social funds, Beibei Bayu Company built Shibi modern agricultural Park and built demonstration base for the integration of agriculture and tourism, which realized the increase of ecological agricultural production and income; In Shibi - Guanxing - Tianping along the planning and construction of the "thirty mile fruit corridor", the orchard yield per mu during the fertile period can reach 1000 kg, and the average output value per mu exceeds 40,000 yuan.

The development of Causeway Mountain Mine has always adhered to the big ecological concept, organically combined the ecological protection and restoration of the mining area with the revitalization of the countryside. The rural living environment along the surrounding line of the mine has been significantly improved, the production and living infrastructure has been continuously upgraded, and the local migrant workers have been attracted to return home, and the ordinary people have jobs and businesses at their doorsteps, relying on the green signboard of the mine park. Around the "integrated development of agriculture and tourism" to do industry, do supporting, do services, to achieve income and wealth. Since the implementation of ecological restoration, more than 2,800 people have been employed by surrounding residents in engineering management and scenic spot construction, and more than 200 people have been employed regularly by surrounding villagers such as Shibi Village and Xidu Village, with a per capita income increase of about 20,000 yuan. The farmers around the mine cooperated with state-owned companies to purchase, store and transfer agricultural houses and land, and implemented a one-year signature to revitalize idle resources of farmers, benefiting more than 300 people.