The First Bay of the Jiuqu Yellow River： Getting rid of poverty and getting rich by ＂Yan value＂

　　The Yellow River, which originated in Qinghai, flows through the territory of Sichuan Province, next to the Suokezang Temple in Tangke Town, ruoergai county, and forms the magnificent landscape of "the first bay of the Yellow River with nine bends" with a 180-degree turn. With the continuous strengthening of ecological protection and conservation in recent years, this beautiful scenery has become an important way and guarantee for local people to get rid of poverty and become rich.

　　Zoige is an important water conservation area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, an important part of the "China Water Tower", and occupies a decisive position in the overall situation of national ecological security. Zoige Wetland is the largest alpine peat swamp wetland in the world. It has the reputation of "reservoir" of the Yellow River and "kidney of the western plateau of China", and it is also the only place where the Yellow River flows through Sichuan. At the same time, however, Zoige is located in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which belongs to a fragile alpine region. Affected by natural factors such as global climate change and human interference, grassland desertification and wetland shrinkage were serious at one time.

　　In order to compete with desertification for a green home, the cadres and masses in Zoige County began to control desertification in the 1960s and 1970s. After more than 30 years of continuous research and innovation, they summed up the control technology suitable for the cold flowing sandy land, effectively curbed the trend of land desertification, reduced soil erosion, and achieved the effect of "planting trees to see the forest and planting grass to see the green".

　　The improvement of ecological environment has brought benefits to the local area. According to reports, the Yellow River Basin in Sichuan Province covers an area of 18,700 square kilometers, and Aba Prefecture involves ruoergai county, Aba County, Hongyuan County and Songpan County, with a basin area of 17,000 square kilometers, accounting for 91% of the Yellow River Basin in the province. Among them, the four counties involved in the Yellow River Basin all belong to concentrated contiguous poverty-stricken areas. In recent years, with the continuous strengthening of ecological governance, ruoergai county’s eco-economy has developed rapidly and achieved remarkable results in precision poverty alleviation.

　　It is understood that in 2018, the First Bay Scenic Spot of the Yellow River sold nearly 250,000 tickets and received nearly 2.95 million yuan in compensation for ecological livelihood, which greatly boosted the economic development of ruoergai county. Dozens of staff in the scenic spot were from poor households. In order to help get rid of poverty, this ecological livelihood compensation will also be distributed to villages. At present, there are 120 river managers in ruoergai county, all of whom are poor households in the county.

　　The improvement of the ecological environment is also promoting the development of services, handicrafts and other industries, and promoting the income of ordinary people. Baihe Community in Tangke Town, ruoergai county is composed of Tibetan, Qiang, Hui and Han ethnic residents, and has no collective economic income in the past. In 2017, with the support of the government and relevant departments, community villagers invested more than 1.6 million yuan to set up a professional cooperative for riding around the ruoergai county Sky Wetland, including a number of handmade products such as auspicious dolls, wishful sachets and diamond knots, which are organically combined with tourism. In less than four years, the initial investment of more than 1.6 million yuan by ordinary people has grown to 30 million yuan in fixed assets.

　　At present, ruoergai county employs more than 300 poverty-stricken households to patrol and manage wetland ecological resources, which not only realizes the full coverage of wetland resources management and protection in protected areas and increases the income of herders, but also basically puts an end to poaching, reclamation and other acts of destroying wetland resources.