Since The 14th Five-Year Plan, Beijing Has Restored More Than 2,300 Hectares Of Wetlands.

A few days ago, China Flower News reporter learned from Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape Architecture and Greening that since the "14th Five-Year Plan", Beijing has restored more than 2,300 hectares of wetlands, forming a wetland conservation system based on wetland nature reserves, with wetland parks as the main body, supplemented by nature conservation districts, making Beijing one of the world's most biodiverse metropolises. Beijing has become one of the metropolises with the richest biodiversity in the world.

According to the definition standards of the Wetland Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as "Wetland Protection Law"), and according to the statistics of the relevant departments, the wetland area of Beijing has reached 60,900 hectares, of which 0.31 million hectares are in the category of Wetland Land and 57,900 hectares are in the category of Wetland.

The wetland category includes scrub swamps, inland mudflats, forest swamps, swamp grasslands and marshes. Wetland classification includes river water surface, lake water surface, reservoir water surface, pit pond water surface and ditch. The city has established a comprehensive wetland classification system, providing growing habitats for nearly 50% of Beijing's plant species and 76% of its wildlife species.

According to Zhang Zhiming, Director of Wildlife and Wetland Protection Department of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape Architecture and Greening, in recent years, Beijing has adhered to the principles of natural restoration as the mainstay, and a combination of natural restoration and artificial restoration, and has made efforts to realize the change from focusing on new restoration of wetlands to upgrading the quality of existing wetlands. In accordance with the Beijing Wetland Protection and Development Plan (2021-2035) (hereinafter referred to as the Plan), the Three-Year Action Plan for Wetland Protection and Restoration (2022-2024) was formulated and implemented.2023 Wetland restoration projects such as Fangshan Changgou Spring Water National Wetland Park, Changping Shahe Wetland Park, Miyun Waterfowl Conservation and Habitat Restoration, Winyu River Park, Nanyuan Forest Wetland Park Construction were carried out. and other wetland restoration projects, restoring 741 hectares of wetlands throughout the year.

At present, Beijing has released two batches of municipal wetland lists, which include 47 wetlands with a total area of more than 27,000 hectares, accounting for 46% of the city's total wetland area.2023, approved by the Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands, 18 wetlands in China, including Mallard Duck Lake in Beijing, were included in the List of Wetlands of International Importance. Mallard Lake became the first wetland of international importance in Beijing, leading to the flourishing development of wetland ecotourism and wetland nature education.

Zhang Zhiming said that February 2 is the 28th World Wetland Day, and the theme of this year's World Wetland Day is "Wetland and Human Well-being", with the slogan "People and Wetland Life Intertwined". Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape Architecture and Greening will further implement the Plan, focusing on the construction of wetland parks such as Wild Duck Lake Wetland of International Importance, Fangshan Changgou Spring Water National Wetland Park, Wenyu River Park, Nanyuan and Miyun Waterfowl Protection and Habitat Restoration, increasing the efforts of wetland protection and restoration, utilizing the limited space, strengthening the restoration of small and micro-wetlands, and continuously upgrading the quality of wetland ecosystems. It will continue to implement the Wetland Protection Law, fulfill the supervisory and management responsibilities of wetland resources, enhance the capacity of dynamic monitoring and supervision of wetlands, timely detect and stop the encroachment of wetlands and illegal destruction of wetlands, and guard the wetland resources to protect the "Kidney of the Earth".