Guo Leling (daughter) Guo Ruiwei (father).
On January 3, 2024, "Anhui State-owned Assets" released the news "The first river-sea direct container liner route of the Jianghuai Canal opened". According to the news: At 10 a.m. on December 29, 2023, with the sound of the whistle, the 120 standard container ships carrying them sailed smoothly out of Hefei Port, and 60 hours later it will dock at the fourth phase of Shanghai Yangshan Port, and the foreign trade goods loaded with 120 standard containers such as home appliances and automobiles will be directly exported to Shanghai Yangshan Port through the river and sea.
It is understood that this is the first river-sea direct container liner route on the Jianghuai Canal, marking the wider and wider road of Hefei "through the river to the sea", opening a new stage of "no transfer, one ship access" between Shanghai Yangshan Port.
What do we think of this "direct river to sea"?
First of all, please take a look at a series of previous reports - December 30, 2022 Xinhua News Agency "The Yangtze River and the Huaihe River "Hand in Hand" were published on the 01st page of the "People's ** Overseas Edition" on December 19, 2023.
These reports all involve the Huai River, showing us the practices and achievements of the Huai River governance, and also reflecting the great changes in China's concept of water conservancy construction.
Let's talk about the name of the "bad river".
Did you know?The Huai River has another name, that is, the "bad river" given to it by the people on both sides of the Huai River. There's a reason why people have given their mother river such a gnashing of teeth – the shortest of China's seven rivers is known for its severe flooding, making it one of the country's most difficult rivers to manage. Historically, the Huai River was a complex and difficult river. According to statistics, in the 500 years from the 14th century to the 19th century, there were 350 major floods and more than 280 severe droughts in the Huaihe River BasinAfter the founding of the People's Republic of China, in 1954, 1991, 2003, 2007 and 2020, there were five major floods in the Huaihe River basin, and frequent floods and droughts brought profound disasters to the people in the Huaihe River basin.
Mr. Sun Yat-sen once proposed in the "National Founding Strategy" that "the dredging of the Huai River is an urgent issue for China today". * Repeated instructions: The Huai River must be repaired. This "most difficult to govern" thousand-mile river has witnessed the fruitful results of the large-scale water control undertaking of New China under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
The great changes in life have made us gradually realize that "water must not be left for a while." ”
First of all, water is a basic need for human survival. Needless to say, this goes without saying. Secondly, water also plays an important role in human production and life. Most of the human production and life activities need water, such as agricultural irrigation, industrial production, power generation, etc., and water plays an important role in these fields. In addition, water has an impact on the environment in which humans live. Water resources are one of the important environmental factors for human survival, and sufficient water resources can ensure the balance of the ecological environment, and also affect the quality of human life and social development.
It is precisely because of the close and important relationship between human beings and water that human beings need to rationally use and protect water resources to ensure their own survival and development.
In the traditional water conservancy stage, the focus is on the management of water resources, with flood control, irrigation, and power generation as the main goals. With the development of economy and society, people's demand for water resources is increasing, and the contradiction between supply and demand of water resources is becoming increasingly prominentAt the same time, the problem of water pollution and waste is also becoming more and more serious. In order to solve these problems, the need for water conservancy work has changed dramatically from simple water control to comprehensive water use.
Hefei is the only city in the country that is not on the seaside and is not close to the big rivers, and the optimization of transportation and the control of logistics costs in economic construction are difficult problems. Nowadays, the "artificial opening" of water transportation channels also reflects the great changes from the traditional agricultural civilization to the realization of "water" by today's industrial and commercial civilization.
There are legends about water control in both Eastern and Western mythology. In Eastern China, the representative flood myth is "Cangyu controls the water". It is recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that the flood is monstrous, and the emperor's breath is flooded, and the emperor does not wait for his life. The emperor ordered Zhu Rong to kill Kun in the suburbs of Yu. Kun resurrected Yu, and the emperor ordered Yu to lay soil to determine Kyushu. In the process of Dayu's water control, there are also many legends, such as "Erlang God slashes the dragon" and so on. In contrast, in the West, the more representative flood myths are the Greek flood myth and the Hebrew flood myth. Especially the latter, the story of "Noah's Ark" in the Bible is even more influential. These reflect people's understanding and imagination of the natural world at that time, and contain the exploration and pursuit of human beings for survival and development.
The change from water control to water use is a change in the thinking of water conservancy work, and it is also a new understanding of the land and the sea.