**: People's **Overseas Edition.
Over the years, the blue sky and white clouds have changed from "luxury" to "common" in Beijing, and I am a witness and participant in this transformation. In order to overcome the formation mechanism of haze, we explored for the first time a new type of "1+X" scientific and technological research system, and formed a "national team of haze control" that brought together nearly 300 scientific research units and 3,000 scientific and technological workers, focusing on overcoming major problems such as the causes and control of heavy air pollution, key industries and pollutant emission control, and comprehensive decision-making support for air pollution.
Since then, we have applied this system to the protection of the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins, successively set up the National Yangtze River Joint Research Center and the Yellow River Joint Research Center, and organized nearly 400 units and about 7,000 scientific and technological personnel to "send science and technology to solve problems" for local governments through various models such as "one city, one policy" and "one matter, one discussion". As a result of these efforts, the total phosphorus concentration in the Yangtze River in 2023 will decrease by 30 percent compared with 201826%, the Yangtze River "smiling angel" finless porpoise returned, and the scene of "* tumbling and jumping fishing boats" also reappeared in the Yellow River estuary.
The modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature is a distinctive feature of Chinese modernization. A good ecological environment is the most inclusive of people's livelihood and well-being. We will actively devote ourselves to the great practice of building a beautiful China, so that the sky will be bluer, the land will be greener, the water will be clearer, and the environment will be more beautiful. (Li Haisheng, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences).
Reporter Liu Fawei collated).
People** Overseas Edition (2024-03-05 Edition 07).