Xianju County Is An Example Of “Beautiful China” With Green Development

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 (Bernama) -- The 3rd China's County Green Development Xianju Forum explored a "beautiful China" county model with sustainable development, well-to-do life and sound ecosystem for China. It was held in Xianju county, Zhejiang province from Oct 12 to 14 with the joint participation of the government, enterprises and the public, according to the Publicity Department of the CPC Xianju County Committee. “In the future, Xianju will make every effort to build a vigorous and open highland, a green economic highland, a green ecological highland, a county cultural highland, a harmonious and happy highland,” said the Secretary of Xianju County Party Committee, Lin Hong. Xianju has an excellent ecological environment. It was chosen as the only county-level green development reform pilot county in the province even though it is not a developed county in Zhejiang Province from the perspective of economic development. However, the "greening" of Xianju's economic development has taken the lead in practice. For example, for the traditional pharmaceutical industry with a good foundation, Xianju has shut down most of the pharmaceutical enterprises with low-tech content, small production scale and scattered distribution in the urban area. The retained enterprises were relocated to the economic development zone as a whole, and the products have also been upgraded from raw material supply to patent medicine production, transforming to modern medicine and biomedicine. Xianju also actively cultivates three "Ten Billion Industries" of great health, great tourism and great culture, so as to promote the economic development towards the green and high-end, a statement said. By strengthening scientific and technological innovation, the added value of Xianju's high-tech industry accounted for half of the industrial added value and the added value of green industry accounted for 83 per cent of the county's GDP last year. The Xianju County also rewarded local residents for their green lifestyle. Residents who choose to walk, ride public bicycles or travel by bus can get a certain amount of "green coins" (one "green coin" = 1 RMB), which it can be used for consumption, living expenses, charitable donations and others. The citizens in Xianju also have formed a "green consensus", and actively participate in green consumption, energy conservation and environmental protection, CD-ROM operations, green travel, garbage sorting and others as part of the green development action in Xianju. -- BERNAMA