The improvement of the ecological landscape of the Minjiang River estuary wetland has been fully launched
Gradually carry out the renovation of the façade of the wetland museum, the decoration of the exhibition hall, and the construction of the flower landscape at the entrance of the park
Renderings of the Minjiang River Estuary Wetland Museum and the surrounding green landscape. (Photo courtesy of Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute).
The Minjiang River Estuary Wetland Ecological Landscape Improvement Project has been fully launched. This reporter learned from the Management Committee of the Minjiang River Estuary Wetland National Nature Reserve on the 9th. The project is an important part of the ecological restoration of the Minjiang River Estuary Wetland National Nature Reserve and the development of the surrounding cultural and tourism industries.
Since the Minjiang River Estuary Wetland in Fujian Province was included in the Tentative List of World Natural Heritage on August 16, 2022, the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have attached great importance to it, and the main leaders have visited the Minjiang River Estuary Wetland for many times to investigate and promote the declaration of the World Natural Heritage.
In accordance with the target positioning of wetlands of international importance and world natural heritage, in May 2022, the Wetland Management Office openly solicited proposals for wetland protection and ecological landscape improvement of the Minjiang River Estuary from global professional technical teams through international bidding. According to the staff of the wetland reserve, in the end, the consortium of the Forestry and Grassland Survey and Planning Institute of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute, Beijing Zhonglei Ecological Science and Technology, won the bid.
It is understood that the overall design scheme of the project has passed several rounds of demonstration, and passed the expert review of the first and second phases of the design scheme on August 22 and December 6, 2023 respectively, and the overall design plan of the project is deepened and the construction drawing design is carried out simultaneously. In the next step, the plan will be optimized according to expert opinions, and the deepening results will be issued in stages.
The project will be officially implemented in November 2023, and the construction of the green landscape project around the wetland museum has been started, the landscape strip clearance and external transportation work have been completed, and the protective transplantation of seedlings and the construction of power pipelines are underway. Next, the renovation of the façade of the wetland museum and the decoration of the exhibition hall will be gradually carried out, the flower landscape at the entrance of the park, and the Fuguang Mountain Forest Theater of Longshan Ecological Park will be gradually carried out.
In order to further give full play to its characteristic advantages, the project has planned to build a spatial layout of "ecology, life and production", excavate potential integration space points, and create an ecological system integrating eco-tourism, ecological agriculture, and low-carbon commercial and residential functions. At the same time, the linkage of river and sea resources, combined with transportation advantages, high-quality urban cultural resources and natural resources connecting mountains and seas, to create a multi-day tour route with the coastal zone of the Minjiang River Estuary and the surrounding areas as the destination, including the natural ecological science tour route based on the excellent ecology of the wetland, the Fuzhou story cultural tour route connecting the important cultural tourism attractions of the old city and the coastal new city, the Maritime Silk Road culture, the shipbuilding culture, the coastal defense culture and other elements. (Reporter Song Yimin).