Xu chairs the meeting. (Photo by Yang Zhiwei/Huaihua Daily)
On the afternoon of May 21, Xu Zhongjian, secretary of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee and Huaihua City Forest Chief, chaired the Huaihua 2025 Forest Chief Meeting. During the meeting, Xu together with other municipal leaders learned to implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on forestry and grassland work, as well as General Secretary Xi’s important speeches, instructions and approvals regarding the relevant work in Hunan Province. They conveyed and studied the spirit of the General Forest Chief Meeting of Hunan Province, listened to reports on the implementation of the forest chief system in the whole city, and thus deployed the key tasks for the incoming phase.
Since last year, all relevant departments throughout Huaihua City have thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization according to Xu. Taking the thorough implementation of the Forest Chief System as a starting point, they have made joint efforts to promote high-quality development and high-level protection, thereby achieving remarkable accomplishments in forestry work and the Forest Chief System. At the same time, they are also expected to be acutely aware of the existing problems and gaps in the work.
They should study Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization in a conscientious manner and then apply themselves assiduously to the thought, Xu stressed. This means they ought to align their thoughts and actions with the decision-making and arrangements of the Central Committee of CPC and with the work requirements of the Party Committee of Hunan. This also means that they ought to effectively consolidate the forest chief system, prioritize the enhancement of green coverage and enterprises to the benefit of people, and optimize the forestry quality and distribution, thereby vigorously developing characteristics endemic to the local forestry industry.
They should strengthen the protection and management of forestry resources and resolutely rectify relevant problems. These problems consist of the feedback by the ecological and environmental protection inspections conducted by both the central government and the people’s government of Hunan, those discovered in the process of unannounced visits of the system, and those spotted in exposed mountain massifs within the visible range alongside highways, high-speed railways, national and provincial highways, and tourist trunk lines. This means that they need to map out against these problems and thus propose solutions targeted at both symptoms and root causes, in a bid to improve the efficiency of afforestation and greening projects, strengthen systematic protection and management, and ultimately build up a green barrier.
They should deepen forestry reforms on a continuous basis. This means that they ought to take concrete and thorough measures to implement reforms in such areas as the collective forest tenure system, the value realization mechanism of forestry ecological products, and the management system of nature reserves so as to facilitate the transformation of lucid waters and lush mountains into valuable assets.
They are required to scare up the forestry industry by strengthening the planning guidance, the construction of the entire forestry industry chain, and the interest connection mechanism, thus enabling more people to increase their incomes and become better-off .
They should abide by the bottom line of forestry safety, through improving forest fire prevention and suppression, and reinforcing the prevention and control of forestry pests and diseases.
They are also required to promote a synergy in administration and management by means of strengthening organizational leadership, streamlining the process of assuming responsibilities, enhancing governance, and consolidating the grassroots foundation as well.
Attendees included Li Weilin, Yang Zhihua, Yin Peiguo, Zou Xingwang, Zheng Xiaohu, Hu Chen, Hu Heping, Yu Jianyong and Zeng Wenqian and other municipal leaders.
(Translated by Dong Yue)