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Journalist Observation | Protecting the Beauty of Harmony and Coexistence

2026-01-26   

The establishment of a nature conservation system with national parks as the main body is a major decision made by the Party Central with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core to achieve sustainable development of the Chinese nation. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for closely focusing on the strategic deployment of implementing the new development concept, promoting high-quality development, and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, focusing on tasks such as strengthening environment protection, and following up supervision in a timely manner to ensure a smooth start to the "15th Five-Year Plan". Since January 1, 026, China's first special legislation on national parks, the National Park Law, has been officially implemented, marking a new stage of legalized and standardized development of Chinas national park cause. The discipline inspection and supervision organs have carried out precise supervision according to the ecological endowments and construction priorities of different national parks, promoting the coordinated improvement of benefits and people's wellbeing, and promoting harmonious coexistence between people and nature. Strictly guarding the ecological red line and building a green barrier first of the three major construction concepts of national parks is to give priority to ecological conservation. The discipline inspection and supervision organs focus on this "national priority" of ecological environment protection, monitor key links such as ecological restoration and resource management, and ensure the implementation of the Party Central Committee's decisions and plans on ecological civilization construction. In the winter ofichuan's Ya'an, in the Mianyang County section of the Giant Panda National Park, the green pines are lush, the terraced fields are covered with, and the oil pines and cypresses stand proudly against the thin snow. Three years ago, however, this place was still piled with mine waste, and the abandoned tail pond left by 50 years of mining not only covered with "ecological scars" but also hidden geological disaster and environmental pollution risks. The Discipline Inspection of Ya'an City, through the advantages of its close, all-weather, and normalized resident supervision, urged the Municipal and County Natural Resources and Planning Bureaus to fulfill main responsibilities and continuously promote ecological restoration. Focusing on key positions in the functional departments, it carried out integrity talks, established a closed-loop mechanism of "problem listrectification account-closure management", and urged "one-to-one" rectification of problems. To date, the city has completed the withdrawal of 188 hydropower stations in the Ya'an section of the Giant Panda National Park, restored 106 abandoned mines, and completed the ecological restoration of 49334 hectares. At the same time, 133.33 hectares of new bamboo, the main food of giant pandas, were built, and the of several ecological corridors was orderly promoted.

The "Panda Supervision Post" is an innovative exploration by the Yaoan Municipal Discipline Inspection Commission andisory Commission. The post is held by 53 village-level discipline inspection and supervision committee members in the areas where the national park is located, focusing on key tasks such ecological restoration, improving the quality of habitats, and constructing ecological corridors in the Great Panda National Park to carry out supervision and inspection. In addition to fully leveraging the of grassroots supervision, the Yaoan Municipal Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervisory Commission have also established a collaborative mechanism of "disciplinary inspection and supervision group relevant departments enterprises," closely monitoring tasks such as the withdrawal of small hydropower and mining rights in response to the environmental protection inspection and rectification, and identifying issues such as style fl and interest transmission in the process of rectification through tracking "three major decisions" and mobile reception, and seriously pursuing accountability for those who are not effective in rectification and perfunct in their responsibilities. In 2025, the city seriously investigated and dealt with 59 cases involving supervision and law enforcement looseness, patrol and protection, and ecological restoration inadequacies in the related work of the Great Panda National Park, and disciplined and dealt with 65 people. Clarifying Supervision Respons and Concentrating Synergistic Efforts The construction of national parks involves multi-department coordination, cross-regional overall planning, and covers multiple key links such ecological restoration, project implementation, and fund usage. Discipline inspection and supervision organs, through cross-departmental collaboration and "group-site" linkage, have implemented the responsibility of local party committees, the regulatory responsibility of industry authorities, and the direct responsibility of national park management institutions, achieving information sharing, joint inspections, and shared results, and forming supervisory synergy. The scope of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park involves nine cities and counties, incorporating 20 scattered managed nature reserves, forest parks and forest areas under unified management. According to the requirements for optimizing the management system of national parks, Hainan has adjusted the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park from a co-located office model with the provincial forestry bureau of "one set of personnel and two signs" to a dispatched agency of the provincial government. During the period institutional reform, there may be integrity risks due to power adjustments, responsibility restructuring, and process changes. "We have conducted heart-to-heart talks with the leadership team of the administration, especially the 'first leader', and put forward risk prevention and supervision suggestions," said the relevant person in charge of the Hainan Provincial Discipline Inspect Commission and Supervisory Commission stationed at the Provincial Department of Natural Resources and Planning.

Meanwhile, in response to the problem of insufficient integrated development of "park" and "land" found in the, the discipline inspection and supervision team of the provincial department of natural resources and planning, through the "supervision one network" platform, initiated the transfer of issues, urged the forestry bureau and the park management bureau to do a good job of work connection, promoted the improvement of relevant systems, and built a management mechanism with the park management bureau as the body, the city and county governments where the national park is located to coordinate and participate in the society, and actively promoted the integrated development of national parks and local areas. Jin Hunchun is the core area of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park. On December 29, 2025, the discipline inspection and supervision team the Hunchun Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the Municipal People's Government, in conjunction with the forestry, forest public security and other departments came to the Hada Gate Township area of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, to supervise and inspect the implementation of the policy of the village ecological management staff and situations. Such a joint supervision in front of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park Hunchun area has become the norm. "We find blind spots and problems such as equipment in time by consulting patrol logs and patrol trajectories, and by issuing disciplinary inspection and supervision suggestions to forestry departments and other means to solidify the main responsibility of the department, explore the construction of a comprehensive protective system that integrates human, material and technical prevention." Lai Haitao, the head of the discipline inspection and supervision team of Hunchun Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the Municipal People's Government, told reporters that key projects, major funds, personnel employment and other links in the construction of park are also key points of supervision. At present, we have promoted the establishment of a "clean and honest file" for ecological projects including project-related information, risk assessment resource use and other contents by forestry, agriculture and rural areas, towns and streets, and strictly guard against all kinds of wind and corruption problems. Protecting the wellbeing of the people and achieving harmonious coexistence National parks are inclusive ecological products that benefit thousands of households. In recent years, the first batch of 5 national parks have nearly 50,000 local residents as ecological management staff, and the ecological compensation mechanism has also given the surrounding masses a stable guarantee of ecological protection benefits, achieving a-win situation of protecting the green and increasing income. The Sanjiangyuan National Park is located in the "third pole" of the earth, the QinghaiTibet Plateau, and the discipline inspection and supervision team of the Qinghai Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the Provin Department of Ecological Environment closely supervises the performance of the duties of the Sanjiangyuan National Park Administration in the protection of the "Chinese Water Tower", while paying attention the distribution of ecological compensation funds, the establishment of ecological management posts and other people's livelihood matters.

In April 2025, the discipline inspection and supervision group stationed at the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment received letters visits. Subsequently, after field visits, the group learned that due to factors such as incomplete projects, late disbursement of funds, and some rural and pastoral "one-card" accounts not being activated, the ecological benefit compensation funds had not been timely and properly distributed. The discipline inspection and supervision group issued a work reminder letter to the Administration the Sanjiangyuan National Park and urged and coordinated relevant responsible departments to jointly solve the problem, promoting the smooth distribution of the forest ecological benefit compensation funds from 202 to 2024, totaling 37.938 million yuan, involving 667 ecological protection workers and 86 village collectives.Ecological protection workers are the "nerve endings" of the ecological protection in national parks, and their selection and management are related to fairness and justice. It is necessary prevent policy emptiness or deviation in execution. The discipline inspection and supervision group of the Qinghai Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission stationed at the Provincial Department Ecology and Environment conducted on-site spot checks on the use of special funds for ecological protection workers in grass-roots units of the Administration of the Sanjiangyuan National Park urged the Administration of the Sanjiangyuan National Park to revise and improve the management measures for public welfare positions of ecological protection workers, and established a sound assessment and reward and, dynamic adjustment, and exit system to ensure that ecological protection workers are truly based on the front line, patrol in practice, and protect effectively. (Liaoxin News Agency)

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