On November 30th, 2019, the forum on Yangtze River Economic Belt and Poyang Lake Ecological Basin Construction were held at the Jiangxi Academy of Social Sciences. Hu Zhenpeng, former deputy governor of Jiangxi Provincial People's Government, delivered a keynote speech. Yang Kaizhong, deputy director of the Institute of Urban Development and Environment of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Liang Yong, president of Jiangxi Academy of Social Sciences, and Liu Bin, a member of the Party group of the Jiangxi Development and Reform Commission delivered the opening speech.
Hu Zhenpeng believes that Poyang Lake is a window and sign of the ecological environment of the entire river basin. It is a necessity to make comprehensive improvement on outstanding ecological environment issues, adhere to the concept of a community of mountains, rivers, lakes, and grasses, promote a number of ecological protection and restoration projects throughout the river basin and further scale up efforts to improve Poyang Lake’s water environment and ecological restoration.
More than 10 experts and scholars from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Fudan University, Xiamen University, and Academies of Social Sciences in Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Yunnan, etc. made keynote speeches on the topics of ecological environment management system, the Yangtze River green ecological corridor construction, inland water governance, the Yangtze River Economic Belt's water management ecological chain, and the Yangtze River Economic Belt's local practice of collective protection.
The forum was hosted by the Think Tank for Ecological Civilization of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Office of the Leading Group for the Construction of Ecological Civilization in Jiangxi Province, the Office of the Leading Group for the Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Jiangxi Province and Jiangxi Academy of Social Sciences. More than 100 well-known scholars and experts from 11 provinces (cities) of the Yangtze River Economic Belt attended the meeting.
After the meeting, the participating experts conducted on-site inspections of the ecological civilization construction in Wuning County, and conducted in-depth discussions on ecological restoration, river chief system, forest chief system, and ecological product value conversion channels.
Chen Jing'an, Deputy Secretary of the Committee of Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences of CPC, attended the meeting.