The river is made of green silk belt, and the mountains are like jade tiles. "The whole of China and the whole world are just such a treasure." General Secretary Xi Jinping once called Lijiang Mountains and Shui so affectionately.

In March 2010, Xi Jinping, then Vice President of the State, attended the plenary meeting of the Guangxi delegation at the Third Session of the Eleventh National People's Congress. In his speech, he recalled his unforgettable experience of visiting the Lijiang River in Guangxi in his youth, and made an agreement with the representatives: try to find an appropriate time to go to Guangxi, go for a walk, and take a look more!

In April 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Li River again. He said to the local responsible person: "This time I come, what I pay most attention to is your best landscape. What can be better than the ecology here? Protecting Guilin's landscape is your primary responsibility."

Li River is like an ink-wash landscape painting, and it has also been troubled by pollution: quarrying and sand digging, deforestation, industrial wastewater and domestic sewage discharge... It once made the Li River lose its color. Faced with the damaged ecological environment, the local government launched a battle to defend the Li River with the determination of a hero to cut off his arm.

The Lijiang River is now green and green, and the magical craftsmanship of nature is here to show the world the magnificent and extraordinary nature of the land of China.

During the National Two Sessions, the General Secretary was concerned about Shanghai's "Blue Sky Index"; asked Qinghai to promote the pilot system of China's Sanjiangyuan National Park; listened to the introduction of major ecological projects in Jilin; instructed Inner Mongolia to "build the scenery of the northern border of the motherland to be more beautiful"; mentioned many times the protection and governance of Qilian Mountains, Qinling Mountains, Wuliangsuhai and other places... One by one, one "beautiful agreement" turned into the results of ecological civilization construction, and the beautiful pictures of green waters and green mountains slowly unfolded in the land of China in the new era.

Planning: Sun Zhiping, Fan Hua

Coordinator: Liu Pei

Director: Luo Linlan

Author: Liang Shun, Chen Luyuan, Zhou Xiaojuan

Poster: Hu Xinyi

Voice: Wang Shuailong

Produced by Xinhua News Agency Audio and Video Department