Recently, the second batch of Zhejiang Province’s “Five Water Co governance” practice window list was officially announced, with a total of 20 units listed in the province. Xiazhu Lake in Deqing County is the only unit selected in Huzhou City. More than 00, with over 600 large and small soil mounds, forming a unique water town landscape where there are mounds (islands) in the lake, lakes in the mounds (islands), and intertwined water networks, making it the largest wetland in Jiangnan. The Xiazhu Lake Wetland has been named the Crested Ibis Relocation Protection and Zhejiang Population Reconstruction Base, the National Wild Soybean Original Habitat Protection Point, and has been awarded the title of “China’s Most Beautiful Wetland”. The “Oriental gem” crested ibis, a type of bird species, naturally thrives in the wild of Xiazhu Lake.
Since 2013, Xiazhu Lake has taken the opportunity of “five water co governance” to promote economic and social transformation and development, and has launched five major combinations of “interception, cleaning, governance, repair, and management”, paving a new path for wetland ecological restoration. We have successively implemented the rectification of pearl farming, pig farming, greenhouse turtle farming, purse seine farming, and overall relocation of aquatic villages, achieving a fundamental transformation of agricultural farming within the wetland red line from more to less to no.
Xiazhu Lake actively carries out comprehensive management projects for small and medium-sized watersheds, using methods such as water system communication, dredging, ecological bank protection, and gate dam repair to manage the main rivers within and around the lake, comprehensively improving the wetland’s flood control capacity. We have pioneered the “four ponds, three dams, and two dams” aquaculture tail water management model, achieving full coverage of aquaculture tail water management and forming a replicable and promotable set of tail water management and fishery transformation experience.
It is worth mentioning that Xiazhu Lake has created a “underwater forest” model for water ecological restoration technology, and established a stable water ecological balance system suitable for wetland restoration. Currently, 100000 square meters of “underwater forest” around the lake have been constructed, with the main water quality indicators stable in Class II-III.
In terms of long-term management, Xiazhu Lake innovatively establishes a wetland ecological compensation mechanism, and annually implements over 7 million yuan to reward and supplement the wetland administrative village; We have pioneered the “Ecological Green Coin” mechanism nationwide and established the “Ecological Green Coin Fund Library” to effectively stimulate the public’s enthusiasm for water conservation; Establish a “river and lake health examination mechanism” and introduce the province’s first “evaluation report on river and lake health and river water ecological health”.
In order to better demonstrate the effectiveness of water control in Deqing County, Xiazhuhu Street has built an immersive water control practice experience hall and a river head workstation. The Water Control Museum will combine display, interaction, and education with entertainment, and collaborate with surrounding primary and secondary schools to create an “Five Water Governance” education base, allowing students to experience the process and significance of water control, transforming “Five Water Governance” into “Five Water Governance”, and ultimately achieving the effect of universal education.
(Editor in Chief:.Sun Peng, Wang Liwei)
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